When you get baptized, your pastor will ask you a simple question; "Who are you dedicating your life to?" or "Who died to save you from your sins?" or something similar to those. The obvious answer is Jesus Christ, but the real question is do you honestly, with all your heart believe that?
I used to go to a bigger church, I had been going since the day it launched. As it got bigger, I noticed change, but not a good change. The number of baptisms grew and grew every time. It got to the point where two to three people would be baptized at the same time in separate water troughs and they would still go on for about 30 minutes! I honestly wonder how many of those people really believe that he died for them and really meant the commitment. How could so many people all be making this commitment at once? yeah, God can do that but it was still weird to me.
Today- March 27th, 2016 I got baptized. It was just me and it went pretty quick. Earlier that morning I really thought about what I was doing. I wanted to be sure that I truly meant it. I prayed about it and spent some time working on blog posts. After a while I was positive that I knew exactly what I was doing, I was dedicating my life to Jesus Christ.
I used to go to a bigger church, I had been going since the day it launched. As it got bigger, I noticed change, but not a good change. The number of baptisms grew and grew every time. It got to the point where two to three people would be baptized at the same time in separate water troughs and they would still go on for about 30 minutes! I honestly wonder how many of those people really believe that he died for them and really meant the commitment. How could so many people all be making this commitment at once? yeah, God can do that but it was still weird to me.
Today- March 27th, 2016 I got baptized. It was just me and it went pretty quick. Earlier that morning I really thought about what I was doing. I wanted to be sure that I truly meant it. I prayed about it and spent some time working on blog posts. After a while I was positive that I knew exactly what I was doing, I was dedicating my life to Jesus Christ.
"I baptize you with water, but He baptizes you with Holy Spirit." -Mark 1:8
"The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" -2 Corinthians 5:17