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Well, first up today, here's a question that came in from one of our listeners named Kristen.

I am curious about baptism.

My son was baptized in a non-denominational church.

I'm Lutheran, and I'm a little bit concerned about the church

does not do communion on a regular basis. With that, I need to have my son rebaptized

Lutheran, or is his original baptism recognized in the Lutheran church. Thank you.

Hey, Kristen, thanks for that question. I can't speak for the Lutheran. I'm not a Lutheran

minister, but my assumption is that the baptism that your son received, so long as it was

baptized with water in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, that that would be accepted as a legitimate Christian baptism. In fact, it would be wrong to try and go through that all over again. You can't be baptized more than once. There's only one baptism for the remission of sins, The Bible says. And so I don't think so.

Now, you'd mention that, you know, part of your concern was that the church that he was a part of didn't have frequent communion. They weren't taking the Lord's supper every week. This is something we see in many churches where, you know, maybe it's just a once a month thing or maybe even a quarterly thing. there was a time in the medieval church where basically, you know, people had just stopped

taking the Lord's supper in part because they were so afraid.

It was a sense of like, man, I can't even take communion.

I'm not holy enough.

And so essentially what happened is there was a rule that was set out there in the medieval

church that basically said you have to

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