hammondjones
Puritan Board Junior
The happy news is that my wife and I just recently welcomed our third child into our family just this past week, a daughter, Evangelina. Normally, we'd have her baptized at the earliest convenience, but...
The unhappy news is that we are strongly considering looking for a new church home. The church left the PCA a few years ago, and recently called a credobaptist as the new pastor, all while (supposedly) retaining the PCA BCO and Westminster Standards. This among other issues. I could go on, but you get the picture. We're still taking counsel and praying about it, but we are feeling like we may have to leave.
With regard to my daughter's baptism, I'm considering the following options:
1. Have the new (credo) pastor baptize her. He has said that he is willing to do that, even though he doesn't understand it or think it's biblical, out of, I assume, deference to way that the church has operated in the past.
2. Have one of the paedobaptist REs baptize her.
3. Delay her baptism until we decide whether or not we are leaving and/or have joined a new church. Potentially many months down the road.
One the one hand, I'd like to go ahead and have it done by the new pastor, since his personal beliefs don't invalidate the baptism (in the Donatist sense). But, on the other hand, I feel like the baptism would put an additional bond between this church and our family, which perhaps I ought not enter into if I know that we will likely be leaving sooner rather than later.
Advice?
The unhappy news is that we are strongly considering looking for a new church home. The church left the PCA a few years ago, and recently called a credobaptist as the new pastor, all while (supposedly) retaining the PCA BCO and Westminster Standards. This among other issues. I could go on, but you get the picture. We're still taking counsel and praying about it, but we are feeling like we may have to leave.
With regard to my daughter's baptism, I'm considering the following options:
1. Have the new (credo) pastor baptize her. He has said that he is willing to do that, even though he doesn't understand it or think it's biblical, out of, I assume, deference to way that the church has operated in the past.
2. Have one of the paedobaptist REs baptize her.
3. Delay her baptism until we decide whether or not we are leaving and/or have joined a new church. Potentially many months down the road.
One the one hand, I'd like to go ahead and have it done by the new pastor, since his personal beliefs don't invalidate the baptism (in the Donatist sense). But, on the other hand, I feel like the baptism would put an additional bond between this church and our family, which perhaps I ought not enter into if I know that we will likely be leaving sooner rather than later.
Advice?