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(religion) A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism..
The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.
In confirmation the confirmand confesses his faith and expresses a willingness to accept and obey Jesus Christ as his Lord; and the Christian Church confirms the worthiness of the confirmand to partake of the fellowship and heavenly blessings which this new relation called church-membership involves.
These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.
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Confirmand means (religion) A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism..
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The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.
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