Baptism is a public celebration of moving from death to life through faith in Jesus Christ. In itself, baptism does not make us a believer in Christ, but is a way of saying to the world that our relationship with Jesus, and our faith in Him, has begun. Baptism symbolises that our old self is gone (going under the water) and our new self has come (coming above the water) and that we have been made alive in Christ; alive to a life that can be lived for the glory of God.