The subject is important.And the gospel preacher must do all He can, to demonstrate that baptism, that is the believer immersed in water, is one of the most vivid ways to demonstrate to the onseeing world of Angels and men, just how God saves sinners.
I have found after ten years of local ministry, that this resistance, which is often the pride of not wanting to say that I was wrong, in what I formerly believed, and now coming to the truth of his soveriegn work of Grace in my souls, apart from anything I did or can do, which is the confession, to which baptism is pointing, Christ alone
Can be overcome ,by the grace of God, when baptism is seen as the gospel of our Saviors redeeming work alone for the elect, in the scriptures from Genesis to revelation.
Not just a mode argument. The gospel!
Noahs ark, Naaman the leper, the dead man in Elsiha's tomb, Jonah in the whales belly, and many more testmonies of our Savior redemption in our behalf, set forth in the old Testament.
Lo I come in the volume of the book, it is written of me, to do thy will o God.
Eventually, God's sheep will find it necessary to follow Him in baptism.
It may take time. But when Christ becomes all, they will follow him.
Mark 16:15,16