Is revival something that can be manufactured?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. We'd love to hear from you. Here's our phone number. It's 8333-3-833-843-2673. That's 1-833-843-2673. We'll be taking your calls for the next 25 minutes or so. So jump on the phone right now. You can also post your question

on one of our social media sites, and of course you can always email us to your question

at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Brandon in Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us. What's your question for Adriel?

Hey, Pastor Adriel. So I have another follow-up question about the baptism topic, whether or not

someone needs to get rebaptized. So you've talked about Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses,

but my parents' Church won't re-baptize people who are baptized into the Roman Catholic Church.

And I don't believe that those baptisms would be legitimate because Catholicism is not Christianity. So I would like to know

your thoughts on that. Yeah, Brandon, thank you for that question. And with regard to this one,

specifically, there are differences among Protestant churches. There are some Protestant churches

would say, no, we believe that these individuals who are baptized in the Roman Catholic Church need to be truly baptized because we don't consider the Roman Catholic Church to be a true church. And so we reject Roman Catholic baptisms. I don't hold to that view. In particular, I think, because we have, in terms at least of our doctrine of God,

doctrine of the Holy Trinity, there's unity, I guess we could say in that sense, or at least

we're on the same page there. And so I think that's a really important distinction to make,

whereas Unitarians or Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons reject the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

So when they say we baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, they don't mean what the Bible says.

When Jesus instituted baptism in Matthew chapter 28 and he said, go into all the world and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Right, if you're a Jehovah's Witness, you think that the son is a created being, a creature.

And so in those churches, quote unquote, because they're not true churches, right, an individual is being baptized into the name of a creature.

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