The Importance of Baptism

The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. If grace delivers us from the realm of sin, so radically that we are described as having died to it, continuing to act as if we lived in the domain of sin would be to empty grace of meaning. The Christian has experienced a transition from the old realm of sin's reign in death to the realm of the reign of grace in righteousness leading to eternal life. In baptism we are united to Christ and his death, so that we might also share in his resurrection life.