Significance of Baptism

"Could you tell me what the significance of the baptism itself is?"

Reverend Pelletier nodded. "Certainly. First of all, the individual has passed from death unto life. We were dead in our trespasses and sins. Now we are, through baptism, alive unto God because we’ve received Jesus into our hearts. In the immersion we become one with Christ in his death. Christ died on the cross for our sins (our sins put him there) and in the act of immersion we are one with him. This is called our union with Christ. So, in baptism, we are united with Christ in death. And, we are united with Christ in the power of his resurrection unto newness of life! This is the meaning of baptism and this is why we feel our being immersed into the water is a better symbol of the death and the resurrection of Christ — the Christian dies to sin and is then born alive unto the newness of life.

Forms of Baptism  

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