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Baptizing babies in the church always leads to the necessity for confirmation. Confirmation is a process by which young men and women learn what it means to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and what it means to be a member of the church.

This time-honored approach to training and confirming our youth in the faith is known as catechesis. Catechesis (a biblical word that simply means “to teach”) is the church’s ministry of grounding and growing all the people of God in the great doctrines of our faith and its implications for membership in the local church and life as a Christian in the world.

But conformation is something a little different, and it’s not just a program for older children in the church.

Historically, the church has engaged in confirmation through its educational ministry. Learning the great articles of the faith is vitally important, but conformation requires more than just information. Conformation means getting in spiritual shape. Being a Christian means being conformed to the image of Christ, and we can’t be conformed unless we are confronted by just how badly we are out of shape. Sometimes God has to carve things away in our lives so that we start to look more like Jesus.

God loves his people, which means He is willing to pursue us, confront us, and require righteousness from us. God’s confrontation is a grace, and the resistance we feel as we go through conformation is actually a relief.

So join Nate, Peter, and Kyle as we discuss why conformation is so important, and how avoiding conformity puts us, and our children, in real spiritual danger.

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In this episode of The Parrhedsian Podcast, Peter, Kyle and Nate discuss how a return to the practice of infant baptism may actually be the key to Christian revival, not only in America, but also in the church and in the home.

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As Coach Herm Edwards once said (famously)...“You play to win the game.” But you can’t win the game (with all due respect to Allen Iverson) if you don’t practice.

Practice is important, it’s important for sports, it’s important for music, it’s important for almost every endeavor in life, including our life in Christ.

Christians must practice their faith, and that means engaging in any number of spiritual activities, including the practice of spiritual disciplines. But practices and disciplines are not necessarily the same thing. Why is that important and what does it matter?

Well, in this episode of the Parrhesian Podcast, we talk with our own Kyle Bennett, who wrote a book called Practices of Love, that explores Christian practices and spiritual disciplines, how they are connected, how they are different, and why they are so important for Christian living. (I’ll give you a hint, they help you win the game!)

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