Tonight we held our first baptismal service in our building on Market Street, an occasion for great celebration!
We held the service in the community room in order to be able to accommodate the baptistery, starting with a time of worship:
Dave then explained about baptism. In our church, we don’t baptise babies, but baptise believers who want to obey Jesus and live for Him. Baptism is by full immersion, since this was the way that this was done in the Bible, and does not save anyone; it’s a sign of the salvation that Jesus has already given to us. Rom 6:1-12 explains that as we go down into the water, this is symbolic of the death of Christ to take away our sins and symbolic of our own death to our old way of living. As we rise up from the water, this is symbolic of the resurrection of Christ and the new life He brings. Baptism is our identification with Christ and a public proclamation of our allegiance to Him.
Then it was time for the actual baptism, with various shades of apprehension on Jade’s face!
Dead to sin…
… but alive in Christ!
A truly joyous occasion!