Samuel's Baptism - July 10, 2011 | The Hillian Collection

Samuel's Baptism - July 10, 2011

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Samuel was baptized this past Sunday at Redemption OPC, witnessed by our families and our church congregation. It was very momentous to stand in front of our brothers and sisters in Christ and vow to raise him in the fear and admonition of the Lord.

Photo Courtesy of Maggie Shackelford

It is a blessing to us as parents to have our child become a member of his church from infancy, and it is our prayer for him that he never knows a day where he does not call upon the name of the Lord.

The following are the vows we took in front of the Lord and our church family on Sunday. Our pastor specifically emphasized the third vow to us beforehand, saying if we don’t pray for our child as parents regularly, who will? We pray for God to confirm his baptism by allowing us to witness his profession of faith in years to come.

1 - Do you acknowledge that, although our children are conceived and born in sin and therefore are subject to condemnation, they are holy in Christ, and as members of his church ought to be baptized?

2 - Do you promise to instruct your child in the principles of our holy religion as revealed in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and as summarized in the Confession of Faith and Catechisms of this Church?

3 - And do you promise to pray with and for your child, to set an example of piety and godliness before him, and to endeavor by all the means of God’s appointment to bring him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?

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