JOHN MARK HICKS is a professor of theology at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds a PhD in Post-Reformation Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary and in the author of "Enter the Water, Come to the Table: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Scripture's Story of New Creation," "A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter," and other books and articles, both popular and scholarly.