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Thoughts on Covenant Baptism
This Lord’s Day, we will have the great privilege of receiving a precious covenant child into the body of Christ through the sign of baptism. There are some in our congregation who have not been exposed to infant baptism in the past and may have questions about what we mean when we baptize a baby. My hope is that this letter will help clarify what we believe infant baptism to be in contrast with what we know infant baptism is not. We don’t believe infant baptism guarantees the salvation of the child: Some churches believe in “presumptive regeneration,” which is the idea that when a child is baptized, that child…