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Old 09-30-2005, 01:27 PM
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Baptizing Non-members Children

In Joseph's thread about his church, he mentioned that the local PCA pastor would consider baptizing his children, subject to the consent of the Session, though he is not a communing member of that church.

This got me thinking about membership and baptism. Baptism is primarily covered under Chapter 56 of the PCA BCO. Based on this chapter, can a Session truly allow the TE to baptize a child of a non-communing member and the parents have no intention of becoming communing members? If it were allowed, at which church would the child be baptized?
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