Baptism

John 3
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

This may not be Biblical but....

I have come to believe that you must be baptized of water, immersed, and you must be baptized of the Holy Spirit. When you are baptized of water you become reconciled to the Church. When you are baptized of the Spirit you becomed reconciled to Jesus - transformed and purified.

When you receive both of these baptisms you are prepared, ready to enter the Kingom of God.

About Reconciliation From Colossians 1
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight....