Confirmation Embraced (... if done right)

Gracia Grindal

Article Type: Face to Face

Publication Date: 10/1/1991

Paired Article (Face to Face): Confirmation Abandoned (... if necessary)

Issue: Confirmation (Vol. 11, No 4, Fall, 1991)

Confirmation, at its best, is a time to stop, review, and test to see whether or not our young people are rooted and grounded in the word. Family devotions and Sunday schools should aim toward it; Sunday morning and Monday morning should be built upon it. Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it. And the parents are twice blessed, for in the giving, they receive the word again and are renewed in their own lives. We teach so that our children may live. Confirmation is for life!

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