09-30-2005, 05:39 PM
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 | The BOOOOT | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Hurst, Texas
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Quote: Originally posted by fredtgreco
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I would be unwilling to give a blanket answer like Matt did, because there are many circumstances that affect a highly pastoral decision.
| Can you give us a "for instance"? Pastorally, where would I jettison the Confession to baptize someone or their children in another church?
| In order to avoid "jettisoning" the Confession's teaching on the importance of baptism. Here is one for instance: a family lives in an area where the only Reformed and evangelical paedobaptist churches are 1.5 - 2 hours away (let's say the rest are PCUSA, Methodist, etc). They are related to a family in my church. I know this family well. The family is desirous of having their children baptized, because of WCF 28. But it is not really possible where they live now. So they ask me if I would meet with them, counsel them, hear their profession and baptize their chidren.
I am faced with a situation of baptizing them without membership, or telling them it is OK to wait.
What would you do? What would you jettison? You have to jettison something.
| I know its just an oversight, but I'm sure you would involve the whole Session (you wouldn't want to alienate the RE's!). And if the Session said no, would you go ahead and do it?
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