fire baptism
Harsh first experience
Fire baptism is a trial by ordeal—an intense, challenging first experience that tests someone's mettle.
The phrase draws on religious imagery of purification through fire and baptism as initiation.
A soldier's first combat, a teacher's first difficult class, a new employee's crisis on day one: My first shift in the ER was a real fire baptism.
Also *baptism by fire* or *baptism of fire*.
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- flamesVisible burning combustion
- purificationRemoval of contaminants
spiritual · tongues · speaking in tongues · spiritual awakening · holy spirit · rite · passage · crucible · transformation · cleansing · awakening · immersion · suffering · forge · tempering · renewal · rite of passage · refining
- revival practicesaltar call, camp meeting, tent revival, tent meeting, revival sermon
- Holiness Movementholiness, sanctification, perfect love, holy living, Wesley
- Holy SpiritHoly Spirit, pneuma, advocate, helper, third person
- Pentecostalismspeaking in tongues, glossolalia, tongues, Holy Spirit, holy spirit
- baptismchristening, immersion, pouring, sprinkling, submersion
- sacred firesacred flame, ritual burning, burnt offering, agni, Zoroastrianism
fire baptismsoft landing
Controlled, gradual descent
hand-holding · training wheels · smooth transition · warm welcome · easing in
fire, fires, fired, firing, fireman, fireplace, firework, fireworks, firefighter