Should Only Pastors Officiate Weddings?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1121 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Is Jesus saying that believers will be left behind in Luke 17:34?
2. What does it mean in Matthew 18 that the apostles have the authority to "bind and loose" things on earth and in heaven? Can all Christians do this?
3. Should only pastors officiate weddings? I am a youth leader and one of my former students is getting married and asked if I would marry them but I'm not sure what to do.
4. I'm a new Christian. What can I do to keep the faith?
5. Does the proof of my faith rest on my ability to stop sinning?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Should only pastors officiate weddings? |
| 0:08.8 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:13.6 | Hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:18.0 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, we'd love to hear from you. |
| 0:24.0 | Here's our phone number. |
| 0:25.0 | It's 8333-the-core. |
| 0:27.3 | That's 1-833-843-243-2673. |
| 0:31.6 | Now, you can also post your question on one of our social media sites. |
| 0:35.0 | In fact, you can watch Adriel right now on YouTube and send |
| 0:39.6 | him your question that way through our YouTube channel. And of course, you can always email us |
| 0:43.6 | at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, let's go to Savannah calling in from Tennessee. |
| 0:51.0 | Savannah, what's your question for Adriel? Hi, Pastor Adriel. Thank you for your ministry. My question comes from Luke, actually, |
| 1:00.6 | chapter 17, verse 34. And I believe it's Jesus talking to the disciples. And he says that, |
| 1:09.7 | I tell you on that night, there will be two sleeping in one bed. |
| 1:13.2 | The one, the non-believer will be taken away in judgment and the other, the believer will be |
| 1:18.3 | left. |
| 1:19.0 | My version is saying this, the non-believer will be taken away in judgment. |
| 1:22.9 | And I thought that was so weird because I thought the believer was going to be taken up and the |
| 1:28.7 | non-believer was going to be left behind. |
| 1:31.9 | So I just wanted to see what your thoughts were on that. |
| 1:36.9 | Yeah, Savannah, thank you for your encouragement. |
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