New Member of Family & Church

Little Man Joining In

Household Baptism

Family Present for Church & Baptism

Greg & Elisha Mowing

Household Baptism, The Church is Israel Now

Covenant Theology/Household Baptism

Photo by Daniel Swanson

Covenant Theology sermon by Bob Needham at Trinity Covenant. Here he gives the Biblical foundation for Household Baptism. 

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Iona's Baptism

 

Any attempt to deprive infants of the right of membership, 

is a virtual attempt to set aside the laws of God.

The church being essentially the same under both dispensations, 

and baptism having been substituted for circumcision as the initiatory rite, 

it followed, as a matter of course, 

that infants still retained the right of membership,

 and consequently were baptized. 

~Ashbel G. Fairchild, Scripture Baptism, Its Mode and Subjects 

There is but one church,

one people of God,

extending from the beginning to the end of time. 

It's membership consists of believers and their households. 

~Robert Booth

If the church is one under both dispensations; 

if infants were members of the Church under the theocracy, 

then they are members of the church now, 

unless the contrary can be proved. 

~Charles Hodge

A church feast

Two Proud Grandmothers

Iona's Family

Iona Smiles

Peter pointed out that in an early church council of Carthage,

around the year 253 AD,

where Cyprian was one of the chief characters in the discussion,

it was decided that an infant is not required to be 

eight days old before he can be baptized.

Happily Married

Mercy's Baptism on Easter Sunday

Baptism is a sign of the covenant, 
as circumcision was in the Old Testament.  

And he took them that very hour of the night 
and washed their wounds, 

and immediately he was baptized, 
he and all his household. 
Acts 15:33

It is greater to marry a kingdom driven man or woman 

than to make a decision based on credo vs. paedobaptism.