2.21 David Schrock, Trent Hunter, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “Neither Covenant Children, Nor Evangelism by Proxy: Recovering a Baptist Approach to Raising Children in the Lord”

Timestamps to Know

• Intro: 00:23
• Defining Different Types of Baptism – 02:41
• What is a Covenant? – 04:48
• How Would Presbyterians Describe Baptism? – 08:33
• How Would Baptists Describe Baptism? – 10:25
• What is the ‘Newness’ of the New Covenant? – 11:54
• What are the Dangers of Including Children in the Covenant? – 18:15
• Parenting Prior to Baptism – 20:40
• Pragmatic Evangelism by Proxy – 26:46
• Raising Children in Relation to the Church – 29:08
• How Do We Instruct Children Before and After the Lord’s Supper – 32:04
• Encouragement from Richard Furman – 36:50
• Outro – 38:52

 Resources to Click

• ⁠Neither Covenant Children, Nor Evangelism by Proxy: Recovering a Baptist Approach to Raising Children in the Lord – David Schrock⁠
• ⁠The Children of Church Members – Richard Furman⁠
• ⁠Living Long in the Land: Reading Ephesians 6:1-3 through the Lens of the New Covenant – David Schrock⁠

Books to Read

• ⁠Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ – ed. Thomas Schreiner and Shawn Wright⁠
• ⁠The Baptism of Disciples Alone: A Covenantal Argument for Credobaptism Versus Paedobaptism – Fred A. Malone⁠
• ⁠Faith Formation in a Secular Age – Andrew Root⁠
• ⁠Baptist Confessions of Faith – ed. William Lumpkin and Bill Leonard⁠
• ⁠The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology – Pascal Denault⁠
• ⁠Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theological Understanding of the Covenants – Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum⁠
• ⁠Christ and Culture Revisited – D.A. Carson⁠
• ⁠No Place For Truth: Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology – David F. Wells⁠
• ⁠When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Community – Joseph H. Hellerman⁠
• ⁠Family Ministry Field Guide: How Your Church Can Equip Parents to Make Disciples – Timothy Paul Jones