BAPTISM BAPTISM BAPTISM!!!

Hey girls, how many of you aren't baptised yet?

Well, there's an opportunity to do so this coming 31st october!

We'll need you to pass up your baptism forms latest by this sunday(11thoct)

and interviews will be done this 18th Oct!

Don't worry, it's not a scary interview session! You will be interviewed by the older leaders in YC. Just be youself!

Just in case you don't know, you don't need to be baptised to get to Heaven. That is not why we have baptism!

The bible says:

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9 (New Living Translation)

That's God's gift of salvation to us!

So, if we are saved already, why do we need to get baptised for????

Baptism is not just something fun to do- going whoooosh in and out of the water!

(I do that so many times in the swimming pool!That means I baptised myself over a hundred times already!!!haha) And it's not just something we do cause all our friends are do it too.

But baptism is an important step we take for ourselves in our walk with God, and for those around us.

Baptism is an outward act of faith, to show others than you are serious about your relationship with God! The act of going into the water and coming out is symbolic to leaving your old life and sins in the water, and coming out a new person in Jesus! It's a declaration of your faith and love for the one and only Jesus!

And it's important for your friends and family too, because they will be coming to witness to your faith in baptism. (That's why baptism is an open thing, not just something privately done) your mum,dad, brother, sister, even your nonChristian relatives and friends will be able to witness to your commitment to
Christ.

"Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them."

"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"

-2 Corinthians 5:14-15,17 (New Living Translation)

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Jesus loves you!