Baptism

[asms_solomon]

Hi all,

I'm getting baptised tomorrow morning, however, i will not be taking up membership with the church i am getting baptised at. They are not too happy about this, but i dont feel that this church is for me. I have visited another church and hope to take up membership there. Do you think it is wrong for me to get baptised at a church that i will nto be attending? The pastor at the church said maybe i should get baptised at the church i would be attending. I decided to get baptised there because 1. I grew up in that church, 2. My mom and other family members go there, 3. I didn't see a reason why i couldn't get baptised in any church as long as i was being baptised in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Am i wrong?

Please pray for me

God bless you all

 

[ladylovesJesus]

Hi there asms

As you have asked for us to pray for you, I have moved your post to the prayer request section.

I am delighted to hear you are obeying the Word of God and getting baptised. Not all churches carry out baptising in full immersion.

I do not personally think it matters if you get baptised at one church and then attend another later. After all baptism is a public declaration of your following Jesus and being born again into new life.

2.Cor.5.17

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin* for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Question: “What is the importance of Christian baptism?”

Answer: Christian baptism, according to the Bible, is an outward testimony of what has occurred inwardly in a believer’s life. Christian baptism illustrates a believer’s identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The Bible declares, “Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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” (Romans 6:3-4 NIV). In Christian baptism, the action of being immersed in the water pictures being buried with Christ. The action of coming out of the water pictures Christ’s resurrection.

In Christian baptism, there should be two requirements before a person is baptized: (1) the person being baptized must have trusted in Jesus Christ as Savior, and (2) the person must understand what baptism signifies. If a person knows the Lord Jesus as Savior, understands that Christian baptism is a step of obedience in publicly proclaiming his faith in Christ, and desires to be baptized – then there is no reason to prevent the believer from being baptized. According to the Bible, Christian baptism is simply a step of obedience, a public proclamation of one’s faith in Christ alone for salvation. Christian baptism is important because it is a step of obedience – publicly declaring faith in Christ and commitment to Him, and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.

God bless you sis and I pray that you will have a really blessed baptism with all your friends and family to enjoy the day too. :rose: :rainbow:

 

[lilifield]

Hello. It shouldn't matter where you get baptised or where you make your fellowship. This should not even be an issue. Glory to God that he brought you into his kingdom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the children of God should be elated to God for that! And stop worrying the dumb small things that only bring bitterness and division.