The Parents’ responsibility It is because of this continued learning by your child about God’s goodness and loving forgiveness we ask you to profess your own faith again as your child is brought for baptism. At baptism you offer to God the new life of the child he has given you, and you promise to bring your family up in the Christian faith; to bring your child to church and nurture your child in a Christian home. You are to be the channel of God’s grace to your child, your love and correction a small picture of God’s own love and correction. It is through your faith that his or her faith will grow; as you pray with him, that prayer will have meaning for him; as you worship with her, that she will worship too; as you speak of Christianity, that he will begin to understand it. At baptism the promise of God’s help for you is renewed and you are assured again that Jesus is with you by his Spirit to help you in all your responsibilities.
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The Parents’ responsibility It is because of this continued learning by your child about God’s goodness and loving forgiveness we ask you to profess your own faith again as your child is brought for baptism. At baptism you offer to God the new life of the child he has given you, and you promise to bring your family up in the Christian faith; to bring your child to church and nurture your child in a Christian home. You are to be the channel of God’s grace to your child, your love and correction a small picture of God’s own love and correction. It is through your faith that his or her faith will grow; as you pray with him, that prayer will have meaning for him; as you worship with her, that she will worship too; as you speak of Christianity, that he will begin to understand it. At baptism the promise of God’s help for you is renewed and you are assured again that Jesus is with you by his Spirit to help you in all your responsibilities.