Baptism is the first ordinance of the gospel.
Various churches have various forms of baptism, such as dipping, pouring, sprinkling, forward immersion, backward immersion, trine immersion, rose petals, dirt, and sand. Baptism is an absolutely essential ordinance if we are to enter the kingdom of God. We accept Christ by being baptized. Baptism is a saving ordinance. We will never understand the atonement of Christ as our individual release from sin unless we are baptized.