Believer's ChurchesMainstream Baptists are members of churches in which every member makes a personal commitment to follow Christ and enter into the fellowship of the church. Unlike churches which baptize infants and incorporate them into the church before they are capable of making a personal response to the gospel, Baptist churches baptize persons only after they make a personal confession of their faith in Christ. Baptists also practice baptism by totally immersing persons in water, rather than by sprinkling, pouring, or anointing persons with water. Baptism by immersion preserves the dramatic imagery of the meaning of baptism as a symbolic death, burial and resurrection. The symbolism of baptism pictures both the death, burial and resurrection of Christ who died for our sins and the believer's own death to sin, burial of our sinful nature, and resurrection to a new life in Christ.
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