Jesus wants all who call themselves followers, to spend time learning from Him. And like with those first disciples, there’s no shortcut to this. Meaning, we need to be ready to leave some things behind so we can spend the proper amount of time learning from Jesus, what His will and plans are. And one of the most important things the disciples learned, is that baptism is not about checking a box that GOD created. Instead, our baptism is a symbolic demonstration of our death to this life, and the beginning of a new life in GOD.