The assurance that [the death of Christ] really is for my salvation I have in my baptism. There I was baptized unto the death of Christ and there I became a partaker of all that he has won through his death. Therefore baptism is not confined to one act in my infancy. It is the beginning to a life which is to be lived in fellowship with the crucified Christ. To live as a baptized Christian is to live “by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

–Bo Giertz, Preaching from the Whole Bible