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Why Baptizing Your Child Matters: Understanding the Benefits of Covenant Baptism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book is written for young families. It avoids the baptism debate while graciously presenting the story of God’s faithful provision, protection, and promise of deliverance for his people given through the sign of the covenant. Beginning with Adam and continuing through Abraham—where the covenant is ratified and developed in the forming of the nation of Israel—it traces through the Scripture...

After Christ completed His work on earth, we see a new command for all those who put their faith in Christ. The call was to “believe and be baptized.” The belief was in the salvation given through Christ Jesus and the desire to be a part of His covenant community. Baptism was now the sign of citizenship into that community. At the same time, circumcision was no longer commanded and was deemed as unnecessary (Acts 15). Nevertheless, as belief in Christ spread first in the Jewish communities, we find
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