Water Baptism

Be Made New

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We celebrate your important next step in drawing closer to God! In water baptism you are identifying with Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Going under the water signifies that your former life is now dead and buried. Rising out of the water signifies resurrection to a new, spiritual life empowered by the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead. You now live your new life from the position of victory over sin and death.

Jesus is our example.

While He had no sin from which He needed to be cleansed, Jesus identified with the needs of humanity and set the example for all who would follow Him. This is what the Christian journey is all about: being like Jesus! So follow Jesus’ example and be water baptized.

What if I was baptized as a baby?

The Bible shows that water baptism follows a change of heart and direction in someone’s life. Since this requires understanding of what both salvation and water baptism mean, we believe those around the age of ten and older should be baptized again as an expression of their personal willingness to follow Jesus.

I’m ready! What do I do next?

The good news is you don’t have to wait for a church baptism service to be water baptized! Philip, an early church member, baptized an Ethiopian in a body of water near the side of a road (Acts 8:36-39). If you have a friend who is a Christian, they can baptize you! Be completely submerged (pool, lake, hot tub) and have them baptize you according to Matthew 28:19: “In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” And you, too, can then baptize others on their journey with Jesus!

When’s the next baptism?

Water baptisms happen every first Sunday of the month at our Creyts Campus, and quarterly at our Downtown Campus.

Scripture about Water Baptism

6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

4 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] a]”>[a] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.

18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

15 When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.

8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.

16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’

3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

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