Time or tide

Just been on an 'initiation' weekend. It sounded like something out of the masons but was really just about baptism. I had one sparky thought, which I'll have to follow up. As it is true that Jesus' death and resurrection 2,000 years ago may be appropriated to me today by faith, is it not just as reasonable that my baptism 46 years ago may be appropriated to me by faith. Or, to put it differently, why do we get so tied up about temporal order with baptism when we don't seem to about other aspects of following Jesus? It seems to me that the CofE is right on this one - the order does not matter provided there is both baptism and faith (and I might add the baptism of the Spirit, also, which I am not convinced is tied down to a particular event in time be it baptism, confirmation or conversion). A thought, probably with many errors, but it seemed a good one...