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Hi friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. This is a rapid fire Q&A episode. I'm

planning to do these every three or four episodes in this theology Q&A season. And so I'll just

be doing really quick answers to some of the questions you submitted on Instagram, last ask

anything Monday. I hope you enjoy this episode. And as always, please leave us a review.

It helps us get the word out about Verity. And if you want to submit a question,

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We would love to hear from you. And we always love to hear what resources we can create to better

serve you and resource you and to grow in your faith and in your theology. Okay, so without

further ado, we're going to get started answering a couple of these questions from last Monday.

Number one, should non pastors baptize? For instance, dads baptizing sons, etc.

Okay, this is a good question. And I would recommend going back and listening to the four views

of baptism episode. Because that's going to change the game a little bit, depending on

what view of baptism you hold. If you hold to infant baptism, then most likely you're going to

lean towards the ceremonial approach to baptism that's going to involve having a priest, bishop,

pastor, completing that right for you. But I'm assuming that this is most likely talking about

believers baptism. And there are a couple different views on this. Sometimes believers Baptists will

believe that it needs to be a position of authoritative guidance in the church, such as an elder or a

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