Trevin Wax continues an interview with Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Seminary. I’m not a Southern Baptist, but, I found myself agreeing with at least three things he said.
- Dr. Akin observes that one of the big challenges being faced currently is apathy.
- He acknowledges that too many children have been baptized who were later re-baptized because they didn’t think they were believers in the first place.
Of course, I am not for baptizing children at a very young age. We have made a huge mistake there. So let’s just go ahead and recognize the elephant in the room: many of the baptisms we record every year are re-baptisms. People that are baptized as children come to be convinced that they had not understood the gospel, had not been converted, and therefore went through baptism again.
- He expresses concern over declining birth rates.
You can almost document the stagnation and decline of baptisms within the Southern Baptist Convention as the decline in the number of children that Baptist have.
The truth is, (and I said this in my Axioms sermon that’s either famous or infamous depending on your perspective) we have bought into the mindset of the modern world in that we think that less children is best or at least better. Because we have less children, we have less family members coming to faith in Christ.
This one is worth thinking about carefully.
Read the whole thing here.
