As a person accepts Christ in Christianity he or she gets baptized in front of the church. For example, a “bar mitzvah’ is a ceremony that the Jewish Culture has for a boy when he comes to the age of 13. He now has the same rights as a grown man. Rising out from the water I entered adulthood marking a new beginning for my life, and the experience meant the world to me. I became an adult when I decided to be spiritually born again. I had to understand the importance’s of being baptized, then I had to experience it, and last how the ceremony created a new adult “me”.
Growing up, in the Pentecostal faith it is important to have your baptism during your teenage years. Not everyone gets baptized when your a teenager though, they 're a few adults, …show more content…
There was a total of twenty-six people that were going to get baptize including myself. I was number twenty, so I knew I would be in line a while before it was my turn. As we were in the back room the pastor grabbed one of the people that were going to get baptized and demonstrated and talked through how the baptism was going to go. After that, the youth pastor made sure we all had ours towels, extra set of clothes, and brush if we needed one, then they prayed for all of us before they started baptizing everyone. All of a sudden you could hear the first person get baptized then the second and so on. The line was staring to move quickly I was getting nervous and scared by the second because it is an emotional experience. Then, I was next to get baptize. As the youth pastor helped me step down into the water, I made my way towards the microphone to say a few words all at once the emotion hit me, because I saw my dad. My dad isn 't Pentecostal he is Catholic. Catholics believe that you should get baptized in front of the church when you are a baby; however Pentecostal faith disagrees with that because when you’re a baby you do not know what is going on, we believe that the person should understand the purposes of getting baptized, because it is important. As I spoke into the microphone I just
Growing up, in the Pentecostal faith it is important to have your baptism during your teenage years. Not everyone gets baptized when your a teenager though, they 're a few adults, …show more content…
There was a total of twenty-six people that were going to get baptize including myself. I was number twenty, so I knew I would be in line a while before it was my turn. As we were in the back room the pastor grabbed one of the people that were going to get baptized and demonstrated and talked through how the baptism was going to go. After that, the youth pastor made sure we all had ours towels, extra set of clothes, and brush if we needed one, then they prayed for all of us before they started baptizing everyone. All of a sudden you could hear the first person get baptized then the second and so on. The line was staring to move quickly I was getting nervous and scared by the second because it is an emotional experience. Then, I was next to get baptize. As the youth pastor helped me step down into the water, I made my way towards the microphone to say a few words all at once the emotion hit me, because I saw my dad. My dad isn 't Pentecostal he is Catholic. Catholics believe that you should get baptized in front of the church when you are a baby; however Pentecostal faith disagrees with that because when you’re a baby you do not know what is going on, we believe that the person should understand the purposes of getting baptized, because it is important. As I spoke into the microphone I just