We are carried like a baby in the arms of grace. We are led like a child just learning to walk. We are let down on a pallet at the feet of God's mercy. Although in theses waters God calls us by name, baptism has nothing to do with the individualism that marks our culture. Instead, baptism places us in the family of God, in the community of faith.
Baptism is into the church.
There is no other kind. You don't join this family. You're adopted into it. You might, once you realize how strange this family really is, wish God have been more selective. To be baptized is to adopted into the family of grace, a family you did not choose.