About the Ordinance of Baptism

As Victory Christian Fellowship Church, we believe the following about
Baptism in the New Testament: -

First, there is the baptism whereby the repentant sinner, upon trusting Jesus Christ as his saviour, is baptised by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13).

Secondly, there is water baptism for believers only whereby the believer experiences the reality of co-crucifixion and co-resurrection with the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:19-20: Romans 6:3-6).

Thirdly, there is the filling or baptism in the Holy Spirit by the Lord Jesus Christ, which may occur at or subsequent to conversion.

Speaking in tongues as the spirit give the utterance is the normative evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit.

By the believer’s continued submission to the Holy Spirit, his very weakness is transformed into strength to witness for Jesus Christ in power, and to live according to the will of God. (Acts 1:5-6; 10:46; 11:28; 19:6).

Water baptism is commanded of every believer and a necessary requisite for going on to spiritual maturity.

When water baptism is done in faith, it is the means whereby those who have been justified by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ receive a circumcision of the heart, are made participants in the death and resurrection of Christ and thus are delivered from dominion and rule of sin.

The ordinance of water baptism is a burial with Christ to be observed, whenever physically possible as commanded in the scriptures by all who have repented and truly believed in their heart on Christ as Saviour and Lord.

The method of water baptism is by immersion.

Those who undergo water baptism declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with him to walk in newness of life.

Water baptism is the circumcision of the heart by faith and through the working of the spirit of God.

Water baptism is the taking on of a great responsibility, because in it a person makes an everlasting commitment to God (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 10:47-48, Colossians 2:11-12).

Accordingly, as a Church, we will undertake water baptism in much water for believing adults only.