I believe that most Wesleyan churches do not baptise infants unless the parents insist..
In our church the Pastor actively works against infant baptism and explains to the parents it is of no spiritual benefit..I have not seen one baptised in the 2 years I have attended there..but I have seen many dedications..The previous church I attended for 15 years I never saw a baptism there eithor
Even so, come Lord Jesus
RnMomof7: In our church the Pastor actively works against infant baptism and explains to the parents it is of no spiritual benefit..I have not seen one baptised in the 2 years I have attended there..but I have seen many dedications..The previous church I attended for 15 years I never saw a baptism there eithor.Glad to hear it. I know you were baptized as an infant but was baptized as a believer as an adult. Did infant baptism mean anything special to you compared with the baptism as a believer?
fortheDeclaration: I reject the idea of 'dedication of babies' also. The idea of infant baptism is nothing because it is nothing to God! If it means nothing to Him why should it mean anything to us!I don't necessarily reject infant dedication. I only recognize it as the parents expressing their intent to raise their child in Christian belief and their desire that the church should help them to do that. Probably, it's actually more accurate to call it a "parents dedication". But you'll probably say that such is the duty of any sincere Christian parent. And you'd be right to say it. But if it helps to steel the resolve of those parents in the upbringing of their child, I have no real objection to it. My own mother personally dedicated me to God as an infant the day I was born and I suspect she did the same with my brother and sisters. I can't say it ever meant much to me to know this, any more than an infant baptism would have. But maybe when she was hauling us kids to church, teaching Sunday school and VBS, helping organize and support the youth group, maybe it helped her to keep her committment to raise us kids in the Christian faith. She could always recall her prayer to God and her promise to Him on my spiritual behalf.