“Baptism definitively places our unique and personal name in the company of the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Because we do not baptize ourselves (it is always something done to us in the name of the three-personed God in community) we are no longer merely by ourselves. We are on our way to understanding our lives comprehensively and in community as children of this three-personed God. We are turned around, no longer going our own way, but living as members of the community that follows Jesus.”
~Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places