It is as if the sacramental aspects of baptism are being relocated into a new ritual, leaving baptism simply as a profession of faith, despite the reference in the introductory explanation to dying and rising with Christ. Implicitly, the service does provide an opportunity, with its concluding rite, for all those present to participate in the movement of baptism along with the candidates, but this opportunity could have been more effectively presented if the baptismal rite itself had also been explicitly seen as a ministry of God to the candidates.
