The true meaning of baptism

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/578853

[New Vision Online] 01 Aug 2007--Whether one uses immersion and another uses pouring water to baptise a person (which is known as affusion) both serve the purpose as long as it is done in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, as Jesus Christ instructed His Disciples to keep doing, when baptising (Matthew 28:19).

The word “baptism” comes from a Greek word baptizo or baptizomai, which means pouring water on or immersing in water. So in this language, where the word baptism originated, the etymology of it is one.

In the Anglican Church of Uganda we do not baptise a person who has changed from where he or she had been baptised by immersion, if the baptism was made in the three-fold name of God.

In fact, in the Anglican prayer Book, the instruction to the priest on the Baptism is, “Pour water on him or her or immerse him/her, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”