No Works

When we extrapolate, correlate, and humbly appreciate all the biblical data as New Testament believers, it's sure that baptism in water no more unites us to Christ than anything else. It's not a single prayer that surely does it, it's not our decisions, joining a church, or partaking of the blessed ordinance of the Lord's Table that saves us.

Christ Jesus lived/dead/risen/glorified and calling alone gets the glory of uniting us to God! He is the true food and the true drink. Salvation may come with one's baptism, it may come at a first prayer of repentance, or during the table as God has and may ordain, but what surely unites us, what surely saves us, is only when God moves us from column "Adam" to "Christ." This is the circumcision of the heart. This is the baptism into Jesus. This is eternal life. This leads us to willing faith and supernaturally to that sure justification which is by faith alone with all the fruit of obedience accompanying.

In summary, friend. Christ did not die to provide any saving works, Christ died to save. Men are not saviors, there is only one Savior, Christ Jesus.