DrStakhanovite wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 2:45 am
Yep
56.4 wrote:J. By virtue of being children of believing parents they are, because of God’s covenant ordinance, made members of the Church, but this is not sufficient to make them continue members of the Church. When they have reached the age of discretion, they become subject to obligations of the covenant: faith, repentance and obedience. They then make public confession of their faith in Christ, or become covenant breakers, and subject to the discipline of the Church.(p.164)
28-3. The Church should maintain constant and sympathetic relations with
the children. It also should encourage them, on coming to years of discretion,
to make confession of the Lord Jesus Christ and to enter upon all privileges of
full church membership. If they are wayward they should be cherished by the
church and every means used to reclaim them.
6-1. The children of believers are, through the covenant and by right of
birth, non-communing members of the church. Hence they are entitled to
Baptism, and to the pastoral oversight, instruction and government of the
church, with a view to their embracing Christ and thus possessing personally
all benefits of the covenant.
6-2. Communing members are those who have made a profession of faith
in Christ, have been baptized, and have been admitted by the Session to the
Lord's Table. (See BCO 46-4 for associate members).
