Baptism or Belief?

This is something that has really been on my heart lately and I think it is such a huge issue today in the religious world. The community church says that baptism is how we show publicly our belief in Christ. The Churches of Christ say that baptism is the way by which we are saved. The community church makes a fairly big deal about believing in the Christ, and belittles baptism (this is obviously a generalization). The Churches of Christ, I believe, build baptism up to be the end all, and we don't talk much about the belief aspect of our salvation. Why can't we have both? I believe the Church of Christ has a lot to add this conversation. Are we as a church perfect? Not by any means. What I would like to argue is that "belief" in and of itself, is just as important and necessary as the act of baptism. If you read through the scriptures you would find that "belief" is always accompanied by baptism with few exceptions. In fact, one might could argue that Jesus dealt more with belief than he did baptism. The roman centurion wanting Jesus to heal his daughter-Jesus says this, "Go! It will be done just as you believed it would." The leper, the woman who touched Jesus garment, the men who lowered their friend through the roof to be healed-there are so many accounts where people "believed" and were healed! We must remember in the first century it was blasphemous to "believe" in a king other than Caesar. That to "believe" in Christ was to risk your life. To say what you thought to be right, to change your lifestyle to mesh with what you believed, to tell your friends about it, was to say the Roman government was wrong. Baptism or belief? I believe both of these to be indispensable equals in talking about salvation.