Beginning Again
As I mentioned in my first post, my mom didn't believe that you can choose another person's faith for them. She allowed me to choose for myself. I chose Jesus at a young age, but I was never baptized. At my church, I only ever saw babies get baptized. I didn't really understand what baptism was, although I'm sure I had it explained to me, so I just thought it was something for babies. I was embarrassed by the idea of getting baptized at an older age. As I went through my life and my various levels of involvement with church and Jesus, it crossed my mind many times about whether to get baptized. I felt like Jesus loved me whether I was baptized or not, and I didn't understand how baptism would make a difference to my faith. I didn't understand that God made a commitment to us, but baptism is our commitment to Him. I didn't understand the concept of dying to sin and allowing our sins to be washed away. I saw baptism as a symbolic gesture that had no real i...