In an initial way, people die and rise with Christ in the unified act of faith-and-baptism.513 In an ongoing way, believers implicitly or explicitly reaffirm their own death and resurrection with Christ when they are in the presence of others who are being baptized. Thus even to witness a baptism is to be invited, once again, to participate in the atonement and to be renewed in the baptismal vows of cruciform faithfulness, love, and hopeful peacemaking.
