Baptism is not just plain water,but it is the water included in God’s command and combined with God’s Word.1 What’s so special about a handful of simple water? Nothing,until God connects His Word to it! In Baptism,that is exactly what God is doing.He combines His life-creating and life-giving Word with the waters of Holy Baptism,and thereby we are born again of water and the Spirit (John 3:5).