| Christian believer and their children? Isn’t some kind of profession of faith required of young children before they take the Lord’s Supper? |
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How the sacraments of the Church, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, as popularly practiced within the Christian community, are administrated today reflects the extent of influence Rationalism and the Enlightenment period has played upon the Church the last 200 years or so. Today's individualism, expressed through Arminianism, has rushed through the doors opened by the Enlightenment replacing what our country was founded upon, historic and covenantal Calvinism.
Covenantalism leads us to believe that because the Lord’s Supper replaces the Passover meal, because the whole family (young and old) participated in the Passover meal, because the husband is the head of his family, and because Paul declares the children of just one believing spouse to be holy (i.e., set apart for God), then it is appropriate for the youngest to the oldest of covenant children still living at home to be accepted at the Lord’s table as determined by the believing spouse.
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