Then I will ask you, by way of several questions, to reaffirm your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. You will be asked to declare before the congregation your intention to raise Baby Jane to love God and to serve Him, to the end that she may one day come to commit her life to Jesus as well. Then the members of the congregation will be asked to affirm their intention to undertake responsibility to nurture Baby Jane in the ways of the Lord. At this time I will give a brief charge to both the parents and the congregation as to the significance of their own vow just made to nurture Baby Jane in the things of God. Then I will take Baby Jane and baptize her, after which I will say a prayer for her and for you guys.
Infant baptism is either a strange mystery or a superstition for most people.
Some parents like to hurry and baptize their child so that if the child dies he or she will be sure go to heaven. This is the superstitious approach. Many non-Christian parents oddly enough want us to baptize their children for just this reason. Some want to baptize the child because there is the belief that baptism grants the real entry of the child into new birth. They believe that baptism brings about death to sin and entry into life.