Every time a person enters into a new life with Jesus, the Bible says heaven rejoices (Luke 15:7). Baptism is an expression of being Christ-centered in focus and being relentless in mission. Baptism is Christ-centered in focus because it is an outward proclamation of an inward reality. God has given that person new life. As believers are immersed in the water, they proclaim that the old self, enslaved to unbelief and sin, has died. As believers are raised up out of the water, they are proclaiming that the new self, freed from sin and death, has been raised in the resurrection of Jesus (Romans 6:4). They are proclaiming that they now belong to Jesus.
Baptism is also an expression of being relentless in mission. In the Great Commission, Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all nations and to baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
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