I was baptized in the fall of my freshman year of high school (2006). After moving to a new town in a new state, I got to know the people at my church, and they seemed very welcoming and accepting. Eventually, I grew comfortable enough that baptism became something that I was ready to do. When the high school pastor at my church, Northstar in Acworth/Kennesaw, announced that we would be having a day for students to get baptized, I decided to join the handful of other high school students who would be getting baptized that day. So I was baptized in November 2006.
The way baptism is done at Northstar is by submersion: the one to be baptized stands in a tub of water, and the pastor lowers him/her into the water so that he/she is completely submerged, then lifts him/her back up. This symbolizes our burial with Christ in death and our resurrection with Him to life. And four years after my baptism, I can honestly say that I have come alive with Christ!
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