Being re Baptized

Mishelly, I was also a child when I was baptized. I was only 7. Like you there is very little time that I can remember when I was not saved. I can vividly remember accepting Christ and being baptized.

For a long time, I too thought I didn't have a testimony because I had "always" been saved. It's not true though. I have and have had for a long time a testimony. In my teen years, my testimony was about how Christ held me in His grace through the abuse of those years, though the temptation to give give up and just run away from it, through the temptation to do what several of my friends were doing and drown my problems with liquor and drugs. Through my twenties my testimony was about how God taught me to be independent though I had little self confidence left after the years of abuse. How He had sent my Lifemate and kept us both from the temptation to divorce when one fell into sin and the other did little to stop it. In my thirties my testimony was about how God had blessed and taken care of us through the rough years of our twenties, through the birth of our three children and how even though there was still a spiritual disparity between my husband and I, two of our children found their way to the Lord themselves.

Now I'm in my forties and I get to pick and choose from all the various aspects of my walk with the Lord when I give my testimony. My favorite is that the Lord provisions have always been there, even when I couldn't see where it was coming from. After living the life I have, I can only look forward with excitement to see what will come next.

Never, ever think that you don't have a testimony. All of us have a testimony that fits us exactly the way the Lord intends for it too. Our testimonies are for His glory, not our own!

My thoughts now on whether you should be rebaptized follow along with what everyone else has said. If you were truely saved at 13, a second baptism will simply be to get you wet. I really don't believe it matters to God that you were only 13 as long as you were sincere. Only my opinion.

 

I was baptized as a child because my friend decided to do that. It was after a revival in our town. I, too, have a vivid memory of that. Coming up out of the water I couldn't figure out why there were no angels and no flashing lights and no new energy. Oh, well.... many moons later I was born again. So I baptized myself in our swimming pool. So there! :tongue3:

It will be a glorious day when I can baptize my grandchildren, because they have believed. Their baptism won't be necessary for salvation; it will be a public confession of their faith in Christ and a celebration of God's amazing grace. Yea! :love2:

If for some reason they aren't able to be baptized, that's OK. St. Peter will not hold up a "do not enter" sign at the Golden Gate. :saint: :wavey:

 

I have been twice baptized. The first time, I was baptized in a Church of Christ. I was ten years old at that point. As my understanding of salvation and the purpose of baptism changed, I became convicted of my own need for re-baptism, and in January, was baptized at a Baptist church. I will agree with those who would advise you that re-baptism is a personal matter to be decided based on your understanding of the ordinance at the time and your state of salvation at the time of the first baptism.

Michael

 

I was 8 the first time I was baptized. I was too young to truly comprehend what it meant. Plus, I've also changed my ways of thinking and believing. So, at the age of 32 or 33 I was rebaptized. I called it a believer's baptism.(as many do) I was brought up Church of Christ and was baptized as such. As I grew older and I learned more...I felt as though God was calling me to rededicate my life to him and also to be rebaptized. Both of my kids got to be there....it was great. It's a very personal decision, but if you are being called to do this.....do it!:applause:

 

My mom thought she was saved as a kid, but she didn't realize she was a sinner when she "got saved" (or so she thought). She got saved a 8 days ago. She is now 50 years old and has been in church her whole life.

Before I was saved, several people in my church got saved and I started getting confused. I thought maybe I need to get re-baptized, and asked few people about it. About 7 months later the Lord showed me I needed to be saved and he saved me on July 4, 1999.

Here is a sermon I recently preached,
http://www.parkwoodbaptistchurch.us/Audio.htm#Ferguson