Baptism by Immersion

Baptism is one of the two church ordinances. Baptism was given to John the Baptist by divine authority. Jesus was baptized, the disciples were baptized, and other NT church members were baptized. NT believers receive baptism by immersion through church authority.

Baptism pictures the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 6:3-5). When a believer gets baptized, he publicly professes that he has been saved by grace through faith, that the old self has died and that a new self lives. Baptism does not save, but is the answer of a good conscience.

The mode of baptism is immersion. The word baptize in the Greek means “to dip or to plunge.” Neither sprinkling nor pouring count as legitimate modes of baptism.

Baptism is authorized only under the authority of one of Christ’s churches. Baptism then places a person into the membership of that NT local church (Acts 2:41; I Cor. 12:13). We rejoice when we can baptize a new believer.