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
The Great Dechurching
The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? is a rigorously researched book that’s getting a lot of attention right now and says we’re at a crossroads: One path is to keep “fighting for power and influence in society.” The other is to “embrace our position as exiles, exercising our … Read More
The Case for Catechesis
“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes … 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