Christ Over All

2.21 David Schrock, Trent Hunter, Stephen Wellum • Interview • "Neither Covenant Children, Nor Evangelism by Proxy: Recovering a Baptist Approach to Raising Children in the Lord"


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How do Baptist beliefs inform our parenting? We neither treat our children as automatic members of the covenant, nor do we neglect our holy responsibility to instruct them in the Lord.

Timestamps to Know

  • Intro: 00:23
  • Defining Different Types of Baptism - 02:41
  • What is a Covenant? - 04:48
  • How Would Presbyterians Describe Baptism? - 08:33
  • How Would Baptists Describe Baptism? - 10:25
  • What is the ‘Newness’ of the New Covenant? - 11:54
  • What are the Dangers of Including Children in the Covenant? - 18:15
  • Parenting Prior to Baptism - 20:40
  • Pragmatic Evangelism by Proxy - 26:46
  • Raising Children in Relation to the Church - 29:08
  • How Do We Instruct Children Before and After the Lord’s Supper - 32:04
  • Encouragement from Richard Furman - 36:50
  • Outro – 38:52
  •  Resources to Click

    • Neither Covenant Children, Nor Evangelism by Proxy: Recovering a Baptist Approach to Raising Children in the Lord – David Schrock
    • The Children of Church Members – Richard Furman
    • Living Long in the Land: Reading Ephesians 6:1-3 through the Lens of the New Covenant – David Schrock
    • Books to Read

      • Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ – ed. Thomas Schreiner and Shawn Wright
      • The Baptism of Disciples Alone: A Covenantal Argument for Credobaptism Versus Paedobaptism – Fred A. Malone
      • Faith Formation in a Secular Age – Andrew Root
      • Baptist Confessions of Faith – ed. William Lumpkin and Bill Leonard
      • The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology – Pascal Denault
      • Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theological Understanding of the Covenants – Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum
      • Christ and Culture Revisited – D.A. Carson
      • No Place For Truth: Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology – David F. Wells
      • When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Community – Joseph H. Hellerman
      • Family Ministry Field Guide: How Your Church Can Equip Parents to Make Disciples – Timothy Paul Jones
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