Gloria in excelsis Deo
Emily Christine Love Rainey accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour tonight at Awana at church.
Thought y'all should know.
posted by scooter @ 9:55 PM
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Suck the Marrow
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Thought y'all should know.
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- Kat R., Vancouver, WA (my wife is finally blogging!!!)
- Sherry C., Montana
- Brad S., Southern California
- Westslope, Northern California
- Ian F., Southern California
- David T., Southern California
- Gary R., Southern California
- K Murphy J, Washington
- rom, brighton, massachusetts
- Michael M., Southern California
- Tim S., Southern California
- Erin F., Vancouver, WA
- Amanda F., Virginia
- One of Stephen's sons, East Coast of the USA
- Jaymarie, California
- mu''a'vo' mu' - A Klingon Word from the Word
- Rody M., Vancouver, WA
3 Comments:
Wow...
Words fail me.
Amazing! Praise God, and blessings to your heart.
Actually, there isn't really a ceremony or anything -in the evangelical tradition, a person becomes "born again" at the moment of actual admission of faith in Christ to cover one's sins. Of course, this necessitates an understanding of sin and the necessity of a savior. The girls have attended church off and on apparently much of their lives, and attended two vacation Bible schools this summer before coming home. So their knowledge of basic Christianity, or at least Emily's, seems fairly stable.
In children's ministry, one often sees children confessing faith in Christ a number of times over their childhood - which is often (but not always) an indicator that they are below an age of accountability, where they *truly* understand what it is they are doing. However, at Emily's age, children are often able to comprehend the message of the Gospel quite clearly. The intent of the Awana program is to expose children to the truths of the Gospel on a weekly basis (including memorizing scripture - some former Awana kids on this blog, like Sherry C., can, I'm sure, recite dozens upon dozens of Bible verses from memory from being in Awana).
Also in the evangelical tradition, an individual must make a conscious decision to be baptized, although it is not considered a necessity for salvation (think of the thief on the cross next to Jesus whom Jesus told would be with Him in paradise). Should she wish to, she will get to make this public declaration of her inner change. She can do it at church (most people do), although I've been priveleged to get to baptize high schoolers in the lake at Forest Home Christian Conference Center who had declared their faith in Christ at summer camp (remember that, Ian?) For evangelicals, baptism can best be summed up as a public declaration of faith, no more, no less. Should she wish to, she will be baptized, probably sometime in the next year or so.
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