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Puritan Board Freshman
I’m a young guy (23), newly married (three months), and expecting our first child October 30th. I just recently moved and have had trouble settling down into a church. Surprisingly, the problem isn’t that there aren’t any good churches. There are actually an abundance of good churches which makes settling down a bit more difficult.
I’ve only recently taken the dive into covenant theology after I got married and realized that I might soon have a kid. I want to be obedient to God & his Word and so I have sought out what the word says about infant baptism. I am leaning far towards the Presbyterian side; I am just still having trouble grasping the continuity/discontinuity of the Mosaic covenant. I am seeing a lot of clarity viewing it in the same sort of lenses that John Owen, Kline, Horton, etc. view it. But again, I still have a lot to study, learn, and pray about. If I feel such strong conviction (currently) towards infant baptism would I be disobedient if I attended a reformed baptist church and didn’t baptize my child? My wife has a background in a Sovereign Grace church and so I'm slowly trying to show her the evidence for infant baptism, but she still isn't used to the differences in the PCA.
I’ve sought a lot of counsel from some good friends but 99% of my mentors/friends are credos, so of course they keep telling me to just ditch pedobaptism altogether. Thanks in advanced all.
I’ve only recently taken the dive into covenant theology after I got married and realized that I might soon have a kid. I want to be obedient to God & his Word and so I have sought out what the word says about infant baptism. I am leaning far towards the Presbyterian side; I am just still having trouble grasping the continuity/discontinuity of the Mosaic covenant. I am seeing a lot of clarity viewing it in the same sort of lenses that John Owen, Kline, Horton, etc. view it. But again, I still have a lot to study, learn, and pray about. If I feel such strong conviction (currently) towards infant baptism would I be disobedient if I attended a reformed baptist church and didn’t baptize my child? My wife has a background in a Sovereign Grace church and so I'm slowly trying to show her the evidence for infant baptism, but she still isn't used to the differences in the PCA.
I’ve sought a lot of counsel from some good friends but 99% of my mentors/friends are credos, so of course they keep telling me to just ditch pedobaptism altogether. Thanks in advanced all.
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