In a new updated edition for 2011. New additional chapters and helps for parents and pastors. Gundersen's unique treatment of this rarely addressed subject can make the difference between parents who participate in their children's deception and persumption, or parents who truly guide him to eternal life. If a small child tell us he thinks he's saved, do we take his words at face value? How do we test his profession, especially without seeming to doubt the child and discourage him? Many have found this book the most useful guide ever written on the topic. "A Christian parents would sooner die than amke a mistake wiht the soul of his or her child. And yet so often it's hard to distinguish the stirrings of the Spirit in the soul of a child from thier natural curiosity about the things of God that they hear about at church and home. In other words, just because a child starts asking questions about God and the Bible doesn't necessarily indicate he is close to salvation, but may merely reflect the normal thoughfulness of a growing child about what he's learning at church and home. STill, we always want to encourage and nurture any such godward interest as much as possible. Dennis Gunderson's book can help parents point a child to Christ and guide them in walking along a biblical path that avoids manipulation and false assurance on the hand, and persumption and neglect on the other." -- Donald S. Whitney, Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality, Senior Associate Dean of the School of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.