Now in Print: Baptize Your Children Well

From my latest article in Christian Standard magazine:

A young person who is baptized as part of an integrated discipleship process will be less likely to question the validity of his or her baptism a few years later. 

When my own son was baptized, my wife and I wrote up notes about the process we went through to verify his readiness. We still have that record of his questions and comments and of our observations, in case he ever doubts the validity of his childhood decision. 

Another father in our church took that idea one step further and asks his children to journal about their studies, their sins, and their thought process as they consider the decision to be baptized, creating a record of their own.

Read more in the Christian Standard January 2016 issue