We believe that a person who is going to be baptized must give a credible confession of faith in Jesus Christ. The biblical pattern for baptism is that people first believed in Jesus and then were baptized as an outward confession of that new faith (c.f., Acts 8:12).

The original Greek word baptizo literally means to immerse. Baptism by immersion was the way people were baptized in the Bible. Baptism by immersion best symbolizes our death, burial, and resurrection with Christ Jesus (c.f., Romans 6:1-10).

All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service.