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[lovedablues]

Life life life.   How weird and unpredictable it is.  Much like the weather of the past few days.  One moment, rain, the next, bright, happy sunshine.  There were absolutely great clouds the other day.  From the front of ann lowrey's condo, which is up on a hill sort of, you can see quite a ways over oxford proper and beyond.  It was a whole

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[cheezbud21]

What does it really mean then? Just curious, I have never really known the meaning of it...

_mcb_

On Infant Baptism (at least in the Methodist Church)

[senschuh]

"In baptism infants enter into a new life in Christ as children of God and members of the body of Christ. The baptism of an infant incorporates him or her into the community of faith and nurture, including membership in the local church. The baptism of infants is properly understood and valued if the child is loved and nurtured by the faithful worshiping church and by the child's own family. If a parent or sponsor (godparent) cannot or will not nurture the child in the faith, then baptism is to be postponed until Christian nurture is available... If a child has been baptized but her or his family or sponsors do not faithfully nurture the child in the faith, the congregation has a particular responsibility for incorporating the child into its life."-By Water and the Spirit, A United Methodist Understanding of Baptism
I agree wit ALE. Infant baptism brings the child into the faith community. It is also the community saysing that this child will be brought up in the path of righteousness.

Re: On Infant Baptism (at least in the Methodist Church)

[senschuh]

And excuse my horrible typos