10 Facts About Confirmation

Confirmation is required by Lutherans, Anglicans and other traditional Protestant denominations for full membership in the respective church.

In Catholic theology, by contrast, it is the sacrament of baptism that confers membership, while "reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace".

Confirmation is not practiced in Baptist, Anabaptist and other groups that teach believer's baptism.

From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:.

Confirmation is understood as being the baptism by fire wherein the Holy Spirit enters into the individual, purges them of the effects of the sin from their previous life, and introduces them into the church as a new person in Christ.

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Confirmation reminds us that we are baptized and that God continues to be at work in our lives: we respond by affirming that we belong to Christ and to the whole People of God.

At a Service of Confirmation, baptized Christians are received into membership of the Methodist Church and take their place as such in a local congregation.

Confirmation is a divine action, the work of the Spirit empowering a person 'born through water and the Spirit' to 'live as a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ'.

Confirmation was at first excluded from the synagogue, because, like every innovation, it met with stern opposition from more traditional rabbis.

Confirmation was introduced in Denmark as early as 1817, in Hamburg 1818, and in Hessen and Saxony in 1835.