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We believe that people who have been born again should be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus, Himself was baptized and instructed His followers to be baptized. Baptism also confirms that Christ is the Lord and King in each believer’s life (Romans 6:4).
We believe that water baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, according to the command of our Lord, is a blessed outward sign of an inward work; a beautiful and solemn emblem reminding us that even as our Lord died upon the cross of Calvary so we reckon ourselves now dead indeed unto sin, and the old nature nailed to the tree with Him, and that even as he was taken down from the tree and buried, so we are buried with Him by baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we should walk in newness of life.
Scripture References
- “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19; see also Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:27, 28).
- “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4).
- “Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them” (Acts 2:41).
- “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup” (1 Corinthians 11:26, 28).
- “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves…” (2 Corinthians 13:5).
