BAPTISM: MEANS OF GRACE
Laura (a distinguished student at Talbot Seminary) has been thinking about baptism so I posted a PP Waldenström quote that is a nutshell explanation of the sacraments as "means of grace" position.

"Some say if baptism is a means of grace, it would follow that everyone who is baptized would be saved. The gospel is also a means of grace, but it certainly does not follow that everyone who hears or reads the gospel will be saved. The means saves through faith, but where unfaith steps in, the means serves no purpose... Bread is a means of nourishment, but it does not follow that one who has bread cannot starve. He will starve, if he does not eat." PP Waldenström (1838-1917)