Children of the Covenant

I preached at our Church in Bury St. Edmunds last Sunday. Seven young people were received into communciant membership. In addition to their commitment to some weighty obligations, what impressed me most was their simple profession of faith and the simplicity of their understanding. Their grasp of obligation was inferior to their undestanding of indebtedness but I'm hopeful that the two will equalise in due course. Among those who confirmed their baptism as infants, thereby passing from being heirs to inheritors, was one young lady from a non-church home whose friendship with one of the covenant children and consistent discipleship led her into the body of Christ. 'Oh to grace how great a debtor!