I’m an avowed credobaptist and I basically think infant baptism is unbiblical or at very best inadequately biblical but baptists have their own challenges when it comes to the place and faith of children. To baptise or not to baptise that is the question?

• I think it started with this article by Trevin Wax who argued against baptising small children
• John Starke at TGC came back with the repost that we should baptise small children

There are some interesting perspectives on both sides that I’d not considered before but I think it’s important to remember that there is unlikely to be a single or simple knock-down winning argument here and what is needed is pastoral wisdom, discretion and if possible some catechesis.

Infant baptists bequeath us nominal Christians who don’t believe the Gospel while baptists who plunge too easily bequeath us believers who are not disciples and the latter isn’t always an improvement on the former.