For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him.
Baptism is the sacrament of initiation.
It is through baptism that believers and their children are embodied in the covenant of grace and become a part of the fellowship of the Church. There are some important facts that every Moravian should know about baptism. Christian baptism has its antecedents. This rite enabled them to ceremonially participate in the story of the generation which passed through the sea and the cloud in the Exodus. John the Baptist offered and administered a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.