To be baptized in water into the death and resurrection of Jesus and into the fellowship of the Godhead is a spiritual identity that we carry with us throughout our entire Christian life. . . . To contemplate baptism, then, is to focus on God’s embrace. For baptism reveals God’s embrace and a return to God’s original purpose for life, to re-create all life. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 153.