Well anyone can call them selfs a Christian, look at Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But to be a real Christian it takes more then words. To begain with you need a profestion of faith. To exept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior then you need to repent that means to turn away from your sins. To chance your direction. The Believers Baptism is important not sprinkling water on babys but to submerge in water as the bible says too, after you made your profession of faith. If they have really become a Christain you will see a change in there life. Then you will begain to love the things that God loves. That is it in a nut shell.
Sorry to those who don't like what I say about Baptism. It what the Bible says sorry. You don't have to be baptist to go to heaven but it a commandment for Christains to do and that does not mean sprinkling water on there fore heads.
I'll disagree with you on submersion. You do not need to even be baptized to go to heaven. You need to have faith. Acts do not get you into heaven; faith does.
Remember John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
It does not say that whoever was baptized by submersion. It says whoever believes in him.