Last week I gave a few challenges to my Baptist friends. This week I want to give some similar love to my fellow paedo-baptist church leaders. Specifically, I want to talk about the critical need for intentionality in encouraging and facilitating professions of faith from non-communicant members. [BTW, “non-communicant members,” a term we’ll discuss below, are those who’ve been baptized … Read More
Baptism & Its’ Significance, Part 6 of 6
One Final Concern- The Critical Need for Intentionality on the Part of Church Leadership in Encouraging and Facilitating “Profession of Faiths” from Non-Communicant Members: Karl Barth wrote one of the most important works on baptism in the last century. In it, he gave a scathing critique of infant baptism (yet, interestingly, he was not in favor of abandoning the practice). Two … Read More