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Mormon Stories Podcast

1242: Returning to Church Activity as a Non-Traditional Believer (Joe Tippetts) Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Join us now as we continue our interview with Joe Tippetts about returning to Mormon Church Activity as a Non-Traditional Believer.

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So a lot of people want to just know how you do it.

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So let's spend a lot of time just kind of on the practical elements.

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Blake wanted to know the logistics of making the change back.

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So you go to your bishop and you say I want to come back to church.

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What?

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Let's try and let's try and cover these as punchies we can because we got about an hour

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left.

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What were the what was the waiting time and then after bat we talked about this last

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time, the waiting time to get baptized.

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There's the baptismal interview and then there's the getting baptized but then waiting to have

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your temple blessings restored if you want that.

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Talk about, you know, what the process is.

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You talked about just there a moment where you're all your blessings are restored.

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Yeah, if you left voluntarily like I did versus being excommunicated as in your situation,

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