Baby Dedications
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Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and the wonders that he has done.
He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.
And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
One generation serves the LORD.
The next becomes ignorant of the LORD.
Then, they ultimately abandon the LORD.
The Waters Our Kids Swim (Drown?) In
The Waters Our Kids Are Currently Swimming (Drowning?) In
Relativism- Meaning and truth are relative, so that what is right for one person may be wrong for another person.
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 21). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
Post-Christendom- The moral truths that Christianity teaches are having less and less impact with each passing year and generation.
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 22). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
Kindle Edition.
Kindle Edition.
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 22). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
Individualism- What an individual wills or wants is the highest good, and it is wrong to tell someone that his or her choices or beliefs are wrong or immoral.
Gnosticism- Gnosticism says that there is an inherent tension between our true selves and the bodies we inhabit.
Gnosticism
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 25). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
Sexual Revolution- Teaches that our bodies are our own, and sexual freedom is the highest standard for personal fulfillment.
“Today at school, while my ten-year-old son was in the restroom, a girl his age came in and used the restroom. Except he says she’s not a girl anymore— now she’s called Bryce.”
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (pp. 132-133). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
The Two Modern Deadly Sins
And all this means that there are two unforgivable sins in a postmodern, post-Christianized, individualist world:
And all this means that there are two unforgivable sins in a postmodern, post-Christianized, individualist world:
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 26). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
The first is to judge someone else.
post-Christianized, individualist world. The first is to judge someone else. The second is to fail to fulfill your desires.
The second is to fail to fulfill your desires.
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 26). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
Walker, Andrew. God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? (p. 24). The Good Book Company. Kindle Edition.
1. Communal promises are helpful (v.4a)
2. The next generation needs the gospel more than anything else (v.4b)
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.”
And he worshiped the Lord there.
Yet he, being compassionate,
atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
but the Lord will take me in.
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Parents, will you entrust your children to God — to his providential plan and care?
Will you commit, with the help of this church community, to instruct your children by word and example, in the truth of God’s Word?
Will you commit to pray for them and teach them to pray?
Do you, the people of the Lord, promise to receive these children in love, pray for them, help instruct them in the faith, and encourage and sustain them in this fellowship of believers?
With joy and thanksgiving, as Christ’s church,
With God’s help, we promise to love, encourage, and support you
As you follow Christ and train your children in the faith.