I decided to purchase this offer from Dr. McMahon, a prof. from my seminary, and I started listening to his "Are you truly reformed?" as well as his Covenant Theology overview. Well I think I am now truly reformed...

I am at a loss! Where has this information and teaching been!? This is as big to me as when I first listened to the Doctrine of Grace series by Roy Hargrave...then I felt born again again...and now I feel born again again again!?!?

Now I think I need to get my children baptized and join a paedobaptist church...my wife would go nuts!

Here's the CD on special this month for $20 and it has a ton of resources! Check it out...

A Puritan's Mind All-On-One DVD

Tell Dr. McMahon that Denton sent you!

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Denton Elliott
Husband of one wife, father of three
Deacon - Christ Community Church
Monroe, GA
Student: Whitefield Theological Seminary M.Div program

Just don't get rebaptized!

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The man who is disposed to think of his sin as a great calamity, rather than as a heinous crime, is not likely either to reverence God or to respect His law. - John Kennedy, 1873
Meg
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Member, Intown Presbyterian Church,PCA, Portland, OR

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Is this offer still available? It says that it was available until yesterday.

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

Praise the Lord brother. My firstborn son who is about 5 weeks now was baptized last week. Understanding covenant theology as codified in the Reformed confessions is truly transformative.

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Jordan Harris
Rochester, MN
Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCA)
My Blog

Sorry I just checked and realized the offer is over...I thought it was until end of year. Ask Dr. McMahon and see?

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To quote Nicodemus a *little* loosely, "How can one enter his mother's womb a second time so that he can be baptized as an infant instead of as a believing adult?"




BTW - I was baptized as an infant and then baptized as a believer...so I got all my bases covered already!

Hi Denton,

Congratulations Brother!! You are not that far from me. I live in Lilburn, but attend church in Snellville.

Grace and Peace,
Ronnie

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Ronnie Brown
Ruling Elder, Brookwood PCA
Snellville, GA

I am also new to this covenant theology, but I hurried and when my son, who is now 7 weeks old, was ca 5 weeks old we had him baptised.
It is simply the most safe feeling when everybody in your family are resting on the covenant promise.
By this I mean no offense to those of my brothers who feel different in this subject.

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Martin - Reformed
Husband to the most godly, honorable and loyal wife Line
Searching for a Church
Webpage www.5solas.dk
Free Online Reformed Seminary - http://www.tnars.net
Soli Deo Gloria

Congratulations! Whitefield will lead you even more over to the darkside young Jedi.

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Erick Bohndorf, Redeemer Presbyterian PCA
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Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Ecclesiastes

Welcome Denton!!

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Dan
Member, Soaring Oaks Presbyterian (PCA)
www.soaringoaks.org
Northern California
The duty of a theologian is, not to please the ear with empty sounds, but to confirm the conscience by teaching things which are true, certain and profitable.
John Calvin, 1559

Denton,

Just happened to run across your post on a Google search, and thought you might like to know that a new PCA church plant has recently been started in Monroe. To my knowledge, we're the only Reformed church in Walton County right now. If you're serious about wanting to join a paedobaptist church and having your children baptized, check out our website at www.monroepca.org. My contact information is there if you have any questions.

God bless,

Jeff

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Jeff
Teaching Elder, PCA
Monroe, GA

Yahoo! Dancing here!

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

You may want to discuss this with your wife...Lord willing she will be brought along to your understanding. I am excited to hear of your "cross over."

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soli Deo gloria!
~Nicholas~ Ordained Pastor
Member, Fulton PCA; GPTS Student
Christians are like snow covered dung; it is the purity of the covering which the Father sees. -Luther-
There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
-Francis Schaeffer-

It sounds like you are here in understanding reformed theology:

doctrines of grace "five points" + covenant theology + confession

+

spiritual view of sacraments + church discipline + infant baptism (due to your understanding of covenant theology)

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Scott
PCA
North Carolina


"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)"
Hebrews 10:23

Mr. Elliot,

I praise the Lord with you that He has exposed you to the Scripturalness of Covenant Theology and the like. I also pray that you won't jump too fast, but continue to study, winning your wife over with steady, consistent, and winsome teaching, not provoking unnecessary defense, etc. The Lord is good. Thanks for sharing!

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

Yes I currently have a wonderful fellowship at Christ Community Church in Monroe, GA, where I serve as a deacon and teacher. I am not going to jump ship so soon as I don't consider baptism an essential doctrine to part fellowship over just yet. I am starting to see though that if I end up completely convinced of Covenant Theology (which I surmise will happen over the next few years while at Whitefield), I may have to part weekly fellowship for a church that does embrace all of Reformed Theology...

Yay, I am an ex baptist as well, and I also purchased the collection for $20

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~ Charles Stephen Barribeau ~
Christ Presbyterian Church , OPC (They sing alot of Psalms!)
Original Westminster Standards (I need to study more...)
The Puritans were best! Also... I NEED TO READ MORE!!!
Philipians1:29(KJV) For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Janesville, Wisconsin (In the fellowship of Bob Vigneault and Matt+Megan Meisberger)

Welcome to the Fold Denton! I was a Fundamental Baptist until I was 26 years old and a Paedo the last 13 years however as a married man with no children as of yet I haven't had the joy of experiencing Covenant Baptism for one of my own children. I'm sure it is quite a Blessing.

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Wayne Whitmer
Member, Rio Rancho OPC
Albuquerque, NM

Great! Dr. McMahon's essays on hermeneutics are extremely helpful.

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Andrea
Presbyterian, attending Baptist church
Perugia, Italy
Owner: federiformata.it

"Quos et vocavit nos non solum ex Iudæis sed etiam ex gentibus" (Rom. 9.24)

Awesome, Praise God it is a real eye opener when you get most of it.

And yes work with your wife but read what happened to Moses when Zipporah didn't want him to circumcise his child and he waited. God nearly killed him.

So yes it is a BIG thing. I never thought it was so important when I was a baptist but once I saw the covenant clearly, We are Israel, that was it!!

We are graft into Israel of promise. the one body of elect.

I wish all baptists could see this and have the experience you are having.

But it must be one of those things god has to open your eyes to in his timing.

His ways are beyond ours and Marvelous and mysterious in our eyes!! Keep studying bro and thanks for sharing your experience with us.

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DonP