R. LUCAS STAMPS: Baptists can and should affirm every line in the Nicene Creed, including the baptism clause, without any reservation.
Sacramentalism and Baptist Ressourcement
Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity
Baptists as Orthodox Radicals
EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism
EBC Manifesto, Article IX: Means of Grace
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the two ordinances or sacraments instituted by Christ, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and believe that they function as signs and seals of God’s grace, expressions of individual faith, and bonds of the church’s covenantal unity in Christ. As such, these ordinances are not empty signs or mere symbols but tangibly demonstrate our union with the risen Christ and with his body, the church. Other Christian practices, such as confession of sin, confirmation in the faith, the ordination of church officers, Christian marriage, and the prayerful anointing of the sick may also frame a life of Christian faithfulness, but should not be considered sacraments.