Yes. We believe that God’s love and grace operate in our lives even when we may not be aware of it. Certainly, we do not have to have a complete mental comprehension of everything God does in order for God’s influence to be effective. We baptize infants as a way of recognizing the power of God’s grace in each human life, and also as a sign of their acceptance into the church and as an expression of the congregation’s support for the child and her or his parents and family. We also baptize adults. The practice of infant baptism, which we endorse, stands in contrast to the baptism for “believers only” practiced by Baptists and certain other denominations who teach that a person must be old enough to decide for him- or herself in order to be baptized.
