And yet 1809 birthed some of the greatest names in world history. That year was born William Gladstone, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin, and in an obscure little log cabin not far from here in Hardin County, Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln was born. What an impact those men had on their generation and on our lives. Without God there is no future because God has already created the future. Baptism represents new life.
Confirmation represents new life.
New life means we believe in the future because God is already there. Confirmation is more than just new life. Throughout church history and even the traditions of this church, the emphasis and content of confirmation has changed. Instruction is very important to understanding faith. As ordained pastors, Bob Coleman and I are mandated by our Book of Discipline to admonish the congregation and the parents of children presented for baptism of their responsibility for Christian nurture of the child.