Lord. Paedobaptism brings into the new covenant community on earth those who do not participate in the realities of the new covenant. It puts people in the church before they’re in Christ. It makes church members of those who are not Christians. Inevitably, this will weaken the church’s witness to Christ. It’s a lot more traumatic to excommunicate a nineteen-year-old who was baptized as an infant and is now sinning unrepentantly than it is to simply wait to baptize a young person until they credibly