Originally Posted by john
Originally Posted by Johan
John,

I have witnessed over the years perhaps three or four cases of a family being baptized in our churches. The last two times that I witnessed this was a single mother with one or two children. The children were still younger than, I would say, 12 years. The mother is baptized after she professed faith publicly in a service (one ceremony) after which the children are baptized.

What I think is typical in such cases is the parents grew up in a family the may have become disconnected from the church or even had no relation with the church whatsoever. At some point in time one or both parents were evangelized and after, say, one year of cathecism classes for the parent, he or she is questioned by the elders and is allowed for public profession of faith.

Johan,

that is interesting. I wonder if non-Western churches practice this more.

John

John,

I am not sure if you mean I am in a non-Western church? I would say our church is a Western church. It's not American but it is Western! scratchchin

Your question about the age of the children is quite interesting. I am not sure what would have been the case if the children were about 17 or 18 years old. My guess is that in such a case they would have had to follow the cathecism classes as did their parents and then be baptized after profession of faith. So, we do have credo-baptism in our churches, but it applies only in special cases.

Johan


Last edited by Johan; Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:51 PM.