Suffer the little children….

The baby has been kicking on and off all day. After being completely and totally freaked out last week by three days of almost no movement, it’s been a special joy to feel her inside.

“They’re sitting there. You baptised them. You say Jesus loves them. Give’em the bread, you lumpy anabaptist!”
That Wonderful Cup, Credenda Agenda, Volume 18, Number 1

For more, see Teaching Children to Doubt (by Doug Wilson) and Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church (by Peter Leithart)

“Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”

And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

“Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Mark 10:14-16; Luke 18:16-17
Matthew 18:16; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2

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