Baptism for Disciples Only

One of the things that came far too slowly to the minds of Protestant believers during the reformation is the truth that baptism in the Scriptures is commanded only of believers and disciples, and not of infants. Often, churches try to say that baptism of infants places them in covenant with God, or infuses or conveys grace in some way that gives them salvation, or leads to salvation. People are wrongly taught to believe that receiving the outward sign of water baptism will save them, or their children from sin, without having the inward reality of faith in the gospel, and without experiencing the New Birth, or being born again.