Baptism and Your Relationship With God

SYMBOLIZING YOUR DEDICATION BY GETTING BAPTIZED

Thinking about the things we have just discussed may help you to make a personal dedication to Jehovah in prayer. Everyone who really loves God must also 'make a public declaration for salvation.'  (Romans 10:10) How do you go about doing that?

Let the preceding overseer of your congregation know that you want to get baptized. He will arrange for some elders to review with you a number of questions that cover Bible's basic teachings.   If these elders agree that you qualify, they will tell you  that you can be baptized at the next opportunity.  A talk reviewing the meaning of baptism is usually given on such occasions.  The speaker than invites  all baptism candidates to answer two simple questions as one way to make a verbal "public declaration" of their faith. 

It is important itself that publicly identifies you as a person who has made a dedication to God and is not one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Baptism candidates are fully immersed in water to show publicly that they have made a dedication to Jehovah. 

Next time: Baptism and Your Relationship With God/THE MEANING OF YOUR BAPTISM

From the book: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REALLY TEACH?