Our Family Baptized Our Kids Today

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Michael E

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After a long journey as reformed baptists, this past year while entertaining membership at a URCNA church in PA we had to wrestle with the idea of Paedobaptism. We became convinced of it's truths and fulfilled the call to baptize our children today. Anyway, I know we're in mixed company regarding baptism but I wanted to share it with y'all cuz it was a special moment for us!

Fun Fact, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey has 3 sons, ALL URCNA pastors and we sit under one of them (Dr. Robert Godfrey in fact haha). He faithfully pastors a small church in rural PA with no prestige or recognition but he is such a faithful servant and pastor. He is shown here with us:


*If this isn't the appropriate place to post this or if it's not appropriate to share this at all, please let me know :)
 
General forum is fine; if you had 26 posts you'd see we have a Praise forum, a subforum under the Prayer Request forums as well as a slew of other private fourm one gets access to when that number of posts is obtained. I would put it here as I say, if you had 26 posts.
 
Praise the Lord! We had a “household baptism” last year where all 6 of ours got baptized after I went through a similar change of convictions. Kind of weird after years of telling our kids they had to wait and weren’t ready yet!
 
After a long journey as reformed baptists, this past year while entertaining membership at a URCNA church in PA we had to wrestle with the idea of Paedobaptism. We became convinced of it's truths and fulfilled the call to baptize our children today. Anyway, I know we're in mixed company regarding baptism but I wanted to share it with y'all cuz it was a special moment for us!

Fun Fact, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey has 3 sons, ALL URCNA pastors and we sit under one of them (Dr. Robert Godfrey in fact haha). He faithfully pastors a small church in rural PA with no prestige or recognition but he is such a faithful servant and pastor. He is shown here with us:


*If this isn't the appropriate place to post this or if it's not appropriate to share this at all, please let me know :)
A very special day, glad to see your offspring receiving God's sign of baptism, as he marks them out as Holy children. Be sure to talk of the meaning of it with them often!

Regards,
 
Precious, no doubt, are these little ones in your eyes; but if you love them, think often of their souls. No interest should weigh with you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be so dear to you as that part which will never die. The world, with all its glory, shall pass away; the hills shall melt; the heavens shall be wrapped together as a scroll; the sun shall cease to shine. But the spirit which dwells in those little creatures, whom you love so well, shall outlive them all, and whether in happiness or misery (to speak as a man) will depend on you.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take about them, in every plan, and scheme, and arrangement that concerns them, do not leave out that mighty question, How will this affect their souls?

Love for the souls of your children is the quintessence of all love. To pet and pamper and indulge your child, as if this world was all he had to look to, and this life the only season for happiness—to do this is not true love, but cruelty. It is treating him like some beast of the earth, which has but one world to look to, and nothing after death. It is hiding from him that grand truth, which he ought to be made to learn from his very infancy—that the chief end of his life is the salvation of his soul.

A true Christian must be no slave to fashion, if he would train his child for heaven. He must not be content to do things merely because they are the custom of the world; to teach them and instruct them in certain ways, merely because it is usual; to allow them to read books of a questionable sort, merely because everybody else reads them; to let them form habits of a doubtful tendency, merely because they are the habits of the day. He must train with an eye to his children's souls. He must not be ashamed to hear his training called singular and strange. What if it is? The time is short—the fashion of this world passes away. He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth—for God, rather than for man—he is the parent that will be called wise at last.

—J. C. Ryle, The Duties of Parents
 
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