Just as the baptism represents the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it symbolizes the death and burial of the old self of the repentant believer and the joyous birth of a brand new being in Christ. It signifies new dawn, a cleansing from sin, the individual's response to God's grace, and acceptance into the faith community. The Disciples movement taught baptism by immersion as the accepted form. – From Word to the Church on Baptism, Commission on Theology, 1987