First, go to a body of water sufficiently deep to permit your body to be completely dipped under the surface. Baptism is a kind of burial (Romans 6:4).
Walk out into the water about waist deep. The one doing the baptizing can gently lower your body under the water.
The baptizer should be in a good position to raise your body to a standing position again. Immediately after the baptism, you leave the water and change into dry clothing.
After you have been baptized, you should teach and baptize others (Matthew 28:18-20).
If you have been baptized for the forgiveness of sins, you have received the gift of the Holy Spirit and you have been added to Christ’s church (Acts 2:38-42). You have found a treasure that others can also have. You should share it with others. Sharing it with them only increases your own enjoyment of it.
Of course, before you teach others about New Testament Christianity you should make certain that you understand it well yourself. Keep studying God’s word to make sure your teaching is biblically accurate (Acts 18:26; 1 Peter 2:9; 3:15; 4:11; 1 Timothy 4:16; 2 Timothy 2:2,15; 3:16).
After you have studied again all that you have learned about God’s gift of life, His church (family), and how to become a member of it, you should call all of your friends together and tell them about your salvation (like Mark 5:19).
You will be able to show them from the Bible what sin is (1 John 3:4), what sin does (Isaiah 59:1-2), and that one who dies in sin cannot go to Heaven (John 8:21-24). You will be able to tell them of God’s love for them (John 3:16), and that because He loved them He made it possible for them to be saved through Christ (Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:10). You can show them where Jesus promised, “Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:15-16). You can show them that all, “both men and women,” who believed, repented and were baptized (Acts 2:38; 5:14; 8:12) were added to God’s saved people, the church (Acts 2:47; 5:14; 26:18; Ephesians 5:23-27). Encourage them to receive forgiveness as those people of Bible times did; and as you have also done!
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