Baptism: Bill Fischer

Bill can recall early memories of playing in the pews at church, where he grew up attending every week. He remembers a specific time as a young man in junior high, being unusually struck by a Billy Graham sermon he’d heard on TV. That particular sermon stirred up faith and conviction in him, so much so that he felt led to write a response letter acknowledging he’d accepted Jesus.

Bill admits his life since believing in Christ has not been a “bed of roses.” During the painful times of a divorce and a cancer diagnosis, he found church family to be his stronghold. Outside of work, the only people he’d had in his life were his church family, and he found their strong faith and encouragement to be genuinely life-saving during that time in his life.

He’d never considered baptism until feeling convicted on Baptism Sunday, when he finally acknowledged that like Communion, Baptism is one of those few commands Jesus asks of his believers. After talking it through in Community Group, the lightbulb went off for him, and Bill felt that to “complete” what his faith had started, he wanted to be baptized.