Croghanite
Puritan Board Sophomore
My 8 year old professes Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. When you ask him questions about God and salvation, He has the "correct" answers. I have shown him in scripture that if you love God you will do his commandments. I ask him: "do you trust that Christ paid the price for your sins and believe that you are saved because of your faith and not by your works?" Yes... Then if you love Him: "He commands you to be Baptized, then begin and continue taking the Lords Supper until His return". So he says "then I want to be Baptized and begin taking the Lords Supper. I want to do this because I want to obey Gods commandments".
My family and I are to become members of a PCA church here shortly. My children will be baptized when we become members. I told my Pastor about my son and his profession of faith. He told me that my son is very young to be professing a "true" profession of faith but his age does not necessarily disqualify his profession. He went on to say that after becoming members the Elders would like to get to know my son better and doing that they will see if his heart is in the right place. They will then interview him and so on. In the meantime he is not to take Communion. This leads me to my question.
When a child confesses Christ as his Lord and Saviour, wishes to be Baptized and partake of the Lords Supper shouldn't the Elders immediately recognize that and interview him?
I told my Pastor that my boy will say to me: Why will you not allow me to do Gods commandments, I am a Christian? I was told to encourage him weekly and see if he continues to want these things.
AM I going nuts! It seems to me that when someone makes a profession of faith, they should receive the Sacraments and if they do not continue in their faith, that is when you withhold the sacrament of Communion.
My wife and I went to our last "new members class" tonight and my kids did not know we were going until the last moment. I told my 8 year old we were going to the Pastors house. He said "really" in a surprised tone. I said "is there anything you want me to tell him?" he replied:" tell him I want to be baptized and take communion as soon as possible". Of course I asked him why do you want to do that ASAP and he stated I want to do Gods commandments because I love Him.
Im going to have a great conversation with my son tomorrow
My family and I are to become members of a PCA church here shortly. My children will be baptized when we become members. I told my Pastor about my son and his profession of faith. He told me that my son is very young to be professing a "true" profession of faith but his age does not necessarily disqualify his profession. He went on to say that after becoming members the Elders would like to get to know my son better and doing that they will see if his heart is in the right place. They will then interview him and so on. In the meantime he is not to take Communion. This leads me to my question.
When a child confesses Christ as his Lord and Saviour, wishes to be Baptized and partake of the Lords Supper shouldn't the Elders immediately recognize that and interview him?
I told my Pastor that my boy will say to me: Why will you not allow me to do Gods commandments, I am a Christian? I was told to encourage him weekly and see if he continues to want these things.
AM I going nuts! It seems to me that when someone makes a profession of faith, they should receive the Sacraments and if they do not continue in their faith, that is when you withhold the sacrament of Communion.
My wife and I went to our last "new members class" tonight and my kids did not know we were going until the last moment. I told my 8 year old we were going to the Pastors house. He said "really" in a surprised tone. I said "is there anything you want me to tell him?" he replied:" tell him I want to be baptized and take communion as soon as possible". Of course I asked him why do you want to do that ASAP and he stated I want to do Gods commandments because I love Him.
Im going to have a great conversation with my son tomorrow