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We are grateful to God for every church where we have served and at this point of our lives we feel enormously privileged to serve in a church that holds to my beloved "Westminster Confession of Faith." It is my joy to baptize the children of believers and to see those children treated, not as little strangers until they make their profession of faith, but as members of the family of God. As such they are instructed in the full width of Bible truth and in the catechism of the church. It is the most wonderful privilege to see those children come to the point where they want to express their faith publicly and be admitted to the Lord’s Table. Of course it is still disappointing that baptism remains the "water that divides," but I have learned to appreciate the joy in knowing that there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. And it gives me more joy than I can express to belong to a church that takes seriously the creeds, confessions, and catechisms of the Reformation.}}

We are grateful to God for every church where we have served and at this point of our lives we feel enormously privileged to serve in a church that holds to my beloved "Westminster Confession of Faith." It is my joy to baptize the children of believers and to see those children treated, not as little strangers until they make their profession of faith, but as members of the family of God. As such they are instructed in the full width of Bible truth and in the catechism of the church. It is the most wonderful privilege to see those children come to the point where they want to express their faith publicly and be admitted to the Lord’s Table. Of course it is still disappointing that baptism remains the "water that divides," but I have learned to appreciate the joy in knowing that there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. And it gives me more joy than I can express to belong to a church that takes seriously the creeds, confessions, and catechisms of the Reformation.}}

===Tim Challies (1976-2016)===

===Tim Challies (1976—)===

Tim Challies (1976—) <ref>[https://www.challies.com/about About Tim Challies (challies.com)] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiTim_Challies Tim Challies - Wikipedia]</ref> is a former Anglican Presbyterian Dutch Reformed church '''pædobaptist''' who converted to the '''credobaptist''' doctrine of "believer's baptism" only, based entirely on what he read in the Bible. He is a Canadian author, blogger, book reviewer, Christian apologist, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario.<ref>[https://www.gfcto.com/about About Grace Fellowship Church (gfcto.com)]</ref> He is the editor of ''Discerning Reader'' (discerningreader.com) and co-founder of CruciformPress <ref>[https://cruciformpress.com Cruciform Press (cruciformpress.com)]</ref>, and has written several books including ''The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment and Sexual Detox.'' He writes daily at http://www.challies.com.

Tim Challies (1976—) <ref>[https://www.challies.com/about About Tim Challies (challies.com)] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiTim_Challies Tim Challies - Wikipedia]</ref> is a former Anglican Presbyterian Dutch Reformed church '''pædobaptist''' who converted to the '''credobaptist''' doctrine of "believer's baptism" only, based entirely on what he read in the Bible. He is a Canadian author, blogger, book reviewer, Christian apologist, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario.<ref>[https://www.gfcto.com/about About Grace Fellowship Church (gfcto.com)]</ref> He is the editor of ''Discerning Reader'' (discerningreader.com) and co-founder of CruciformPress <ref>[https://cruciformpress.com Cruciform Press (cruciformpress.com)]</ref>, and has written several books including ''The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment and Sexual Detox.'' He writes daily at http://www.challies.com.