As my Baptist brother says:’you paedobaptists baptise a child, saying to the child you are now part of the church, you belong to the people of God, you are as much part of the church as the rest of us, now we are going to do the most important thing this church ever does, hear the Word of God preached so clear off.’

 
I’ve spent the last 3 Sundays going to church with my family and sitting with them. I want to recommend it to those of us who are preachers. There are men who can’t handle sitting in the congregation they have to preach. You know the lines: ‘this is what I’m called to’; ‘I’m a preacher that is what I am’. I can tell you it’s probably the fast track to breakdown and if all you ever do is preach and never listen in church, you’re probably not going to cope very well when retirement comes along.

I’m a firm believer in children being in church, worshipping with their families, listening to sermons. I think it’s biblical in the examples Scripture gives, and theologically the Children of believers are part of the people of God. Particularly for paedobaptists it’s totally inconsistent to send your children out of worship.

As my Baptist brother says:‘you paedobaptists baptise a child, saying to the child you are now part of the church, you belong to the people of God, you are as much part of the church as the rest of us, now we are going to do the most important thing this church ever does, hear the Word of God preached so clear off.’ I remember going to a church in the US and there was a sign on the door saying ‘Please keep infants out of worship’. At this point I wrote all over the sign, suffer little children come unto me.

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