What does First B Jackson teach about baby dedication?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, baby dedication is treated as a covenant moment, not a sentimental ceremony. The one message that gave it real time, preached during a summer service in 2015, framed it as a three-way promise between parents, congregation, and child. Both families that morning made commitments before the church to raise their children in biblical instruction and love, and the congregation made the same promise back to them.
The teaching connected that ceremony directly to the kind of instruction Deuteronomy 6 and Proverbs 22:6 describe, the steady, lifelong work of passing faith from one generation to the next. A dedication is where that work is named out loud and taken on publicly, not a moment that stands alone but the beginning of something the whole church body shares responsibility for.
No quotes from that service were captured in a way that can be reproduced here word for word, but the shape of the teaching is clear: the dedication belongs to the community as much as to the family. What happens at the front of the room on a Sunday morning is meant to bind the church to those children in an ongoing way.
Taught from Proverbs 22:6 · Deuteronomy 6:4-9
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- July 5, 2015 Sowing to the Spirit A Wyoming pastor walks through Galatians 5, contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit, and calls his congregation to walk yielded lives in God's grace.
Mentioned along the way
- December 28, 2025 Jesus Man Pastor Adam preaches from Hebrews 13 on staying grounded in grace, not being carried away by false teaching, and offering God continual praise as the new year begins.
- May 12, 2024 ABC: One Two Three from Proverbs On Mother's Day, Pastor Ray walks through Proverbs 1, 2, and 3, drawing out the timeless wisdom that loving parents pass down and showing where it leads.
- June 12, 2016 Work the Works While It Is Day A pastor walks through Romans 7 and John 9 to show how union with Christ through faith calls believers to simple obedience, honest testimony, and worship.
- December 23, 2012 The So That of Christmas A Wyoming pastor explores three "so that" clauses in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and John 3:16 to show why God sent His Son and what Christmas truly offers.