But I’m going to blog about it anyway. Yesterday in Pastor’s sermon, baptism was again mentioned as being so very important. It is when God makes us a part of his family! I am passionate about baptism especially after seeing so many baby dedications in the past year and knowing that although the parents promised to bring up their children in the Lord, they withheld from their baby the most important thing–salvation as given through baptism.
Elle and I again discussed this yesterday, but she blogged about it first, so I’m just going to add my two cents here:
Why wait to baptize children? Because of a service where family and friends can come that is planned for days or weeks down the road? I understand the idea of wanting to witness to them, but why not just have a baptism reaffirmation service? I believe it would actually be more of a witness to them because they would see how serious you were as a parent about the salvation of your child that you didn’t want to wait. What is more important here–that your child is given the gift of Salvation God has ready to give them or that family members are there? If someone you were witnessing to asked “What must I do to be saved?” would you tell him to wait a few weeks or that you have a pastor standing by in case his health suddenly diminishes? I don’t understand how people can be so calloused when it comes to their children being baptized when as Christians we would immediately welcome an unbeliever who asks us how to be saved! Salvation is a gift God is waiting to give babies through baptism. Why hold out on giving them God’s gift?
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