Baptism reveals the daily pattern of the spiritual life. . . . Our day-to-day, moment by moment experience of life in all the spiritual expressions of the embodied life . . . is not something we do as a matter of course. Baptism is instead a life-changing covenant, a call to live deeply into the pattern of death and resurrection in every area of life.
-Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 183.