BAPTISM TESTIMONIES

Hear the words of our Lord Jesus Christ:
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember,
I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Hear also these words from Holy Scripture:
Gal. 3:27, 28
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves
with Christ.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free,
there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Rom. 6:3, 4
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with
him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of
life.
Baptism is a sign of profession of faith and of regeneration. The act of
being submerged in the water is symbolic of the dying to sin and self.
The coming out of the water is symbolic of being raised to the new life
in Christ. The sacrament is the sign of God’s promise of ongoing grace,
offering continual forgiveness and transformation throughout our lives.
At whatever age it is received, baptism demonstrates our inclusion in
the covenant with God and our access to the divine grace that claims,
sustains, and saves us.