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Baptism Video

On Saturday 28-Feb-09, I finally got baptised! The vid below is particularly for some family who couldn’t make it at short notice. We had lunch with family and a few friends at Terrigal Haven and then I was baptised by Tim Baldwin. Check out the pics. Vid:

“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)

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Baptism Pictures

It’s taken a while, but on Saturday, I got baptised. Some basic video footage was taken, particularly for family who couldn’t make it on the day. I’m having some problems uploading it. You can find out why it took me so long to get baptised by watching the vid… in the meantime check out some pics. EDIT: Here’s the video

Some family and a couple of friends were there at Terrigal Haven as I shared some testimony stuff and then Tim Baldwin baptised me. EDIT: Here’s the video

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JI Packer on Baptism

BAPTISM – THIS RITE EXHIBITS UNION WITH CHRIST
by J. I. Packer

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

JI Packer on Baptism

Christian baptism, which has the form of a ceremonial washing (like John’s pre-Christian baptism), is a sign from God that signifies inward cleansing and remission of sins (Acts 22:16; 1 Cor. 6:11; Eph. 5:25-27), Spirit-wrought regeneration and new life (Titus 3:5), and the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit as God’s seal testifying and guaranteeing that one will be kept safe in Christ forever (1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 1:13-14). Baptism carries these meanings because first and fundamentally it signifies union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. 6:3-7; Col. 2:11-12); and this union with Christ is the source of every element in our salvation (1 John 5:11-12). Receiving the sign in faith assures the persons baptized that God’s gift of new life in Christ is freely given to them. At the same time, it commits them to live henceforth in a new way as committed disciples of Jesus. Baptism signifies a watershed point in a human life because it signifies a new-creational engrafting into Christ’s risen life.

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