Baby dedication for unwed mother

[Jeremiah]

Is this in the inner city?

Well ... I affectionately call it "a war zone." But yeah, these folks are all transplants from Chicago. Some of them lived in the same house in the city until they began to pair off. City proper is 200,000 people.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Well ... I affectionately call it "a war zone." But yeah, these folks are all transplants from Chicago. Some of them lived in the same house in the city until they began to pair off. City proper is 200,000 people.

well you are going to have your hands full with these folks. I dont personally know about dedications being a Baptist but maybe thats a way outta this. That's your call though. ....but whatever you do, God bless ya

 

[SheepWhisperer]

I have a situation in my Church concerning a young lady wanting to have her baby dedicated. Half the Church is fully supportive of dedicating the baby because they say that a dedication is the issuing of a challenge to the parents and family to raise the child in a Christian environment.

The other half of the Church bring up an interesting point though. This girl is living with the man who is the father of the baby but they are not married. This group in the Church believe that you should not dedicate a baby because you are in actuality presenting them before the Church as a family, which in God's eyes they are not because they live together out of wed-lock (they are shacked up so to speak).

The first group believes that the dedication is an encouragement and a challenge to raise the child as a Christian family including encouragement to do the right thing and get married.

What is your opinion and would you or would you not do a dedication with this child???

Exodus 2216And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Notice that God doesn't prescribe "stoning with stones" here? I would say that God considers this couple the same way. So, I would say the first group is absolutely right. Encourage them in all the Christian love that you can muster, especially being mindful that the child could end up ""fatherless".