Conformation

Baptizing babies in the church always leads to the necessity for confirmation.  Confirmation is a process by which young men and women learn what it means to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and what it means to be a member of the church. 

This time-honored approach to training and confirming our youth in the faith is known as catechesis. Catechesis (a biblical word that simply means “to teach”) is the church’s ministry of grounding and growing all the people of God in the great doctrines of our faith and its implications for membership in the local church and life as a Christian in the world. 

But conformation is something a little different, and it’s not just a program for older children in the church.  

Historically, the church has engaged in confirmation through its educational ministry.  Learning the great articles of the faith is vitally important, but conformation requires more than just information.  Conformation means getting in spiritual shape. Being a Christian means being conformed to the image of Christ, and we can’t be conformed unless we are confronted by just how badly we are out of shape.  Sometimes God has to carve things away in our lives so that we start to look more like Jesus.

God loves his people, which means He is willing to pursue us, confront us, and require righteousness from us.  God’s confrontation is a grace, and the resistance we feel as we go through conformation is actually a relief.  

So join Nate, Peter, and Kyle as we discuss why conformation is so important, and how avoiding conformity puts us, and our children, in real spiritual danger.

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