We love these "parental promises" and words of dedication.
It is our aim, with God's help:
1. To recognize our children as gifts of God and give heartfelt thanks for God's blessing.
2. To dedicate our children to the Lord who gave them to us, surrendering all worldly claims upon their lives in the hope that they will belong wholly to God.
3. With God's fatherly help, to bring up our children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, making every reasonable effort, with patience and love, to build the Word of God, the character of Christ, and the joy of the Lord into their lives.
4. To provide, through God's blessing, for the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of our children, looking to our own heavenly Father for the wisdom, love and strength to serve them and not use them.
5. Relying on God’s help to make it our regular prayer that, by God's grace, our children will come to trust in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of their sins and for the fulfillment of all his promises to them, even eternal life; and in this faith follow Jesus as Lord and obey his teachings.
WORDS OF DEDICATION
Elliot James Katterson, together with your parents, who love you dearly, and this people who care about the outcome of your faith, I dedicate you to God, surrendering together with them, all worldly claims upon your life, in the hope that you will belong wholly to God forever.
Amen, little son, may it be so!
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