How do Baptist beliefs inform our parenting? We neither treat our children as automatic members of the covenant, nor do we neglect our holy responsibility to instruct them in the Lord.

Timestamps to Know

Intro: 00:23
Defining Different Types of Baptism - 02:41
What is a Covenant? - 04:48
How Would Presbyterians Describe Baptism? - 08:33
How Would Baptists Describe Baptism? - 10:25
What is the ‘Newness’ of the New Covenant? - 11:54
What are the Dangers of Including Children in the Covenant? - 18:15
Parenting Prior to Baptism - 20:40
Pragmatic Evangelism by Proxy - 26:46
Raising Children in Relation to the Church - 29:08
How Do We Instruct Children Before and After the Lord’s Supper - 32:04
Encouragement from Richard Furman - 36:50
Outro – 38:52

Resources to Click

Books to Read

Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ – ed. Thomas Schreiner and Shawn Wright
The Baptism of Disciples Alone: A Covenantal Argument for Credobaptism Versus Paedobaptism – Fred A. Malone
Faith Formation in a Secular Age – Andrew Root
Baptist Confessions of Faith – ed. William Lumpkin and Bill Leonard
The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology – Pascal Denault
Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theological Understanding of the Covenants – Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum
Christ and Culture Revisited – D.A. Carson
No Place For Truth: Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology – David F. Wells
When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Community – Joseph H. Hellerman
Family Ministry Field Guide: How Your Church Can Equip Parents to Make Disciples – Timothy Paul Jones

2.21 David Schrock, Trent Hunter, Stephen Wellum • Interview • "Neither Covenant Children, Nor Evangelism by Proxy: Recovering a Baptist Approach to Raising Children in the Lord"

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