Churches don’t teach this: baptism is a human’s physical way of reenacting the death, burial & resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s much more than following the rules and getting wet! When you go into the water it is like the crucifixion, then when you go under the water it is like the burial in the ground and when you come up from the water it is like Jesus’ resurrection from the dead AND to top it off-it is ALL done by someone else-hence you are not in the driver’s seat at all!