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| Thanksgiving services are the most flexible
approach to initiation of children. Common Worship has enhanced
the equivalent ASB Rite, but many will find it too demanding for those
who simply want in a simple straightforward way to show their thanks to
God.
The examples are no more than suggested skeletons. A common
failing in many services of thanksgiving is that they come over as
"second class" - it is vital that such services carry as much
"sense of occasion" as do baptisms.
Some commonly asked questions about the relative
merits of Thanksgiving and Baptism are listed in another section -
Click here for these
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Click on your choice ........
| A service where the parents have no particular church
affiliation |
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| A service where the parents are
committed Christians, but who wish to leave the decision on baptism to children
when able to "answer for themselves" |
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| See also Promoting Thanksgivings - John Hartley |
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