Believer's Baptism

I was sharing today about the believer's baptism and the significance of it. At the end I was reading out a testimonial and got a little emotional as I shared how this guy was understanding that his old life is gone and his new life is now hid in Christ. He was saying goodbye to the old but welcoming all that is new.... here is most of it....

Believer's Baptism comes after Repentance.

Many years ago, I was the pastor of a church in New York. One day a person named Joey slipped into the back pew. I later found out t...hat Joey was a drug addict and lived the lifestyle that included petty thieving, selling drugs, and living in a drug-induced high. His world was a network of young men and women whose world from dawn until late in the night was the pursuit of getting high. He continued to come back week after week, eagerly listening to the preaching of the Gospel. We had a baptismal service almost every Sunday; and after hearing the Gospel and being awakened by the Spirit to faith in Christ, Joey asked for baptism.

He sent out invitations to his family and the network of persons who made up his world that read simply, “you are invited to Joey’s funeral and resurrection on Sunday night.’ Goodbye, I am leaving the world that all of us know for real life in Jesus. You will see me around, and we will talk, and I hope I will continue to be your friend. But the Joey you have known has died and in a few minutes will be buried; the man you will be talking to is somebody who has risen from the dead and for the first time in his life is really alive! He walked the streets of Brooklyn, seeing old haunts and friends, but although in the world, he was not of it. He was a man who had been joined to Christ; he had returned home from his own funeral to see the world and all of life through resurrected eyes.
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We don't have to come from a background like Joey to see we need salvation in Jesus. If you live and breathe, you need him, no matter who you are or what you have done or even think you have accomplished. We all need Jesus Christ.

As I was driving home, I was pondering and thinking about the beautiful people I spent time with today, what took place with Joey, and thankful that God saved me ... and my thoughts were as simple as this ... 'New life in Christ - there is nothing like it!'