Credo – Week 8 | One Baptism

You’re tired of trying harder and getting the same results — willpower, self-help tricks, and pep talks haven’t changed the habits, the selfishness, or the anxious core that keeps repeating. Maybe baptism feels like a one-time ritual you don’t think about, or maybe you haven’t been part of one at all. The tension is real: longing to be different while feeling mostly the same. This sermon reads Romans 6 as a wake-up call and a promise: change isn’t primarily something you manufacture but a status given — you are incorporated into Christ by baptism, buried and raised into a new identity. The talk explains how that external reality frees you from being ruled by sin, how to reckon with that truth daily, and what it looks like to live from who you truly are rather than from trying harder. Listen for the practical shifts that make living into freedom feel possible and surprisingly ordinary.