That there can be no resurrection to the new life without repentance of the old life is dramatically portrayed in the new believers’ renunciation of Satan that took place as they were to be baptized into God’s embrace. These new converts literally and physically renounced their former embrace of Satan and all his ways. . . . The rite of renunciation . . . made me realize that baptism not only reveals our new identity, it also discloses our “No” to Satan and to all his forces of wickedness and death. The memory of my baptismal renunciation of evil was a marker moment in my spiritual life not only because baptism reveals a “No to evil” but also because it discloses the spiritual life, which is “Yes to the Spirit.” — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 148,183.