Churched Or Saved

A minister friend recently confirmed nearly twenty young adults. The next Sunday, not one of them was in Church. This is a classic. However, people seldom think further than this: "You confirm them and they are gone -- you should have done believers' baptism." But consider the view from here -- where I am now after more than thirty years of ministry. You have seen a generation pass by. What happens through confirmation is that people are now Churched, but they are not saved -- in many cases, that is. Now you have set yourself up (or somebody else) for potential disaster decades down the line, through Churched people, unsaved.