Preach the Gospel—Not Membership: Freeing Baptism from the Chains of Quotas

For too long, the most beautiful invitation in human history—“Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”—has been buried under paperwork, rulebooks, and statistical targets. Jesus never said, “Believe in Me, meet these milestones, then join our organization.” Yet in many churches today, baptism has quietly become…