Phylicia dives into some of YOUR questions on this weeks episode of Verity Podcast!
From questions about Baptism to Understanding Salvation and many in between these Bible based answers are set to help guide you to the scripture as you grow in faith.
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How can Christians live so differently? Are they not all Christians? What are the deal breakers? What is the meaning of baptism, and is it required? How can I trust the Bible hasn’t been changed? Why did Jesus have to die, and how or why did that cover our sins? Okay. This one made me laugh. Grace alone, but you know god’s got behavior expectations. Welcome back to Verity podcast friends. I’m Phylicia Masonheimer, the host of Verity podcast and the founder of Every Woman A Theologian, and we are continuing our beginner believer series. We’re about 17, 18 episodes deep now, and it has been such a joy to be able to create these episodes for those of you who are new to the Christian faith or maybe are discipling someone who is new to the Christian faith. And this week, I am going to be talking about the questions you sent in about being a beginner believer. What are you asking? What do you want to know about the Christian faith? Now I tried to choose the questions that were sent in via Instagram that we hadn’t already covered on an episode, but we might touch some of those again in this episode for those of you who are new to me, new to our channel, or to the podcast.
Now you guys did not give me a break on these. These are some tough questions. And, of course, whenever I answer questions like these, I’m answering in such a quick format that there’s so much more that could be said. It’s always going to be a slight oversimplification when I’m answering theological questions in a q and a format. So, of course, don’t let this stop you from continuing your research or checking out all of our amazing resources in the every woman a theologian shop by going to phylicamasonheimer.com/shop. We have almost 30 quick theology booklets, which are these little $6 print booklets. They’re $3 if you get the ebook, and they talk about some of these issues like creation and the trinity and how to trust the bible, things like that in a very short and accessible format. So check those out if you’d like to know more.
And for now, I’m going to dive in and answer some of these questions that you sent into my Instagram. Alright. Let’s start with a doozy. What is the meaning of baptism, and is it required? This is a great question. And I’m pulling up scriptures as I’m recording and talking to you, and to kinda give us something a little bit more robust than just Felicia’s opinion as we’re sitting here talking about this. So, okay, what is the meaning of baptism? So baptism as a practice actually didn’t just appear out of nowhere with John the Baptist in the new testament. I think some people believe that Jesus or John invented baptism, and that’s actually not true. Baptism was a practice that the Jews were practicing actively.
In fact, if you converted to Judaism, baptism was one of the ways that you fulfilled your conversion. So if you were a gentile, a Greek, and you decided I want to be Jewish in my my religious practice, you would be baptized as a true convert to Judaism. Another way that baptism shows up is through mikveh cleansings where you would cleanse yourself. You would walk down into this pool of living water that’s important. It couldn’t be stagnant water. It had to either be from a river or a spring, and you would cleanse yourself. And so we see this in Leviticus with these ritual washings that were happening, but this becomes formalized as we approach the new testament era where there were actually, these mikvah baths or pools where people would go down and would essentially be baptized. But the most formal baptism was in the conversion process.
So when we get to John the Baptist, he’s baptizing a well recognized practice. But why is he doing it? He’s doing it for a different reason. In Matthew 3, John the Baptist says that he baptizes with water but that the coming messiah would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. This is in Matthew 3 11. And this is the baptism that John himself believed he needed which is why when Jesus came to be baptized by John notice that Jesus himself submitted the baptism. John says to him, I need to be baptized by you and you come to me. So John understood that there was a greater baptism by the Holy Spirit that was to come, but he was also actively practicing this physical baptism as an outward sign of that coming inner reality. Now there are different perspectives on baptism.
There are some churches which practice infant baptism, which is seen as a sign of the covenant replacing circumcision. And so infants are baptized, basically, as a depending on the tradition you’re in. There’s diverse opinions on infant baptism too. But as a sign of this coming faith that they will they will put a seal of the faith that is yet to come in this child’s life. And this is why later on in many churches, they will have a confirmation process where there were first communion. And so in in with infant baptism, it functions a little bit differently than with credobaptism or believers baptism, which is what I practice, our family practices, and and the church that I’m currently in practices, and what many of you are probably familiar with. This is what Jesus was submitting to in this credobaptist process of converting. Jesus isn’t converting, but people were converting and then coming to John and being baptized.
And so after this, long after this, at the at the very end of Jesus’ ministry, right before he ascends, he says to the apostles, he gives them a great commission. He says, go into all the nations, all the world and preach the gospel to all nations, to all people, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. This is important because he connects the preaching of the gospel with the rite of baptism. And so is baptism required? Yes. As far as we are able to participate in it. Certain exceptions exist, such as the thief on the cross who was saved by faith without baptism, but he couldn’t be baptized. He was hanging on a cross. So he’s an exception to the rule.
However, for those who are not in such situations and baptism is possible, baptism is something that shows to all those around us that we are joining ourselves to Christ spiritually. We’re testifying to this change of life, this change of character that he has worked in us, this change of identity, the new family we’re entering. And as many pastors will say, when they, baptize someone buried in the likeness of his death, raised to life in the likeness of his resurrection. That is what baptism signifies. That’s why it’s so important. Okay. Next question. How can Christians live so differently? Are they not all Christians? What are the deal breakers? That’s a great question.
How are spirit led Christians arriving at different conclusions? How come we have some people who won’t read certain books or watch certain movies or wear certain clothes and others will? How do we understand the diversity of the church or even denominations in today’s culture? Let’s start first with the diversity of the church at large in denominational structures, and then we’ll talk about how different Christians arrive at different conclusions about how to live if they all have the same holy spirit. Denominations. Let’s start with this. This is something that is sometimes hard for people to understand especially if they convert to protestantism out of Catholicism or orthodoxy. These these ancient highly structured hierarchical churches that will often lay claim to the history of the church and lay claim to being the original church. What is interesting in my role as a leader of a ministry that is ecumenical or, serves across all denominations, all historically orthodox denominations, what we see is that many churches actually claim to be the original first church. And so when we look at all of history, what we’re looking at is the global historical church, capital c. All the people who have ever put faith in Jesus Christ, that’s the church.
Not one specific denomination, but the church, capital c church, is every Christian who has ever put faith in Christ. That’s the church. So then why do we have these denominations? So that’s that is a conversation that needs an entire podcast series, and I did start that out. We did an early church podcast series that I then had to take a break from earlier this year, but all of those episodes are still available. We can do a church history series sometime. But where denominations came from? Essentially, they’ve always existed to some degree. And what I mean by that is you have had differences of opinion and expression on certain practices within the church from the very beginning. In fact, if you read the book of Acts, you will see certain differences and little dissensions that were happening even between the apostles or between, different ministers of the gospel who disagreed on certain things and then had to get together and figure out how are we going to unite, what are we going to unite around.
Especially as the church expanded out of the Middle East, you started to see different expressions of Christianity that were colored by the cultures that it entered because Christianity was never meant to completely morph over a culture and erase all of its distinctions. It was meant to bring the hope of Christ, the hope of the god who came came to Earth to save humanity to every culture and every tongue, to save them as they are, not erase their culture, but to redeem their culture and bring it to the full knowledge of god. And so you see different expressions of Christianity in places like Coptic Christianity, which began in Egypt, Ethiopian Christianity, one of the oldest churches. When you see how it’s expressed in the Greek Orthodox church and then the Roman Catholic church which were the 2 primary ruling churches for approximately the first 1000 years. There was a massive split. They they were together, up until the year 1054, and that is when the Eastern church split from the Western church for a variety of reasons I won’t get into here. That was the first what many people would call denominational split. But up to that point, there had already been many differences of opinion and many councils of the church to discern what adheres to scripture, what holds to what scripture teaches about the trinity, about Jesus’ divinity, about God, and what departs from it.
Now after that split for another 500 or so years, you still had the Roman Catholic church, the predominant and powerful church in Europe at that point. And over time, it became increasingly corrupt. And, of course, in the 1500 is when Martin Luther and other reformers broke from the Catholic church because of its abuses, stood up to those abuses, and returned to the power of the word of god itself. And people like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale paved the way for that in the 1300 1400 by translating the bible from Latin to English for the very first time. Their work paved the way for Martin Luther and for others. And eventually, out of the reformation came this vibrant revival of dedication to the word of god. One of the impacts of this revival and reformation was that there was a splintering of the church into many different factions. And sometimes those factions were based on sinful pride or greed or power grabbing.
But other times, that wasn’t the case at all. Many times, the church was splitting because one side wanted to preserve the word of god and another wanted to depart from it. And so over and over, the churches split out of hoping to preserve the freedom to, first of all, read the word of god at all, but also to apply it and walk it out. And out of these diverse and wide denominational groups, out of which came Presbyterianism and the Baptist, the branches, many branches of the Baptist movement, your Puritans and your, Pilgrim separatists. You get to over to America and you see the Methodist movement and you see, the Pentecostal movement arising around the 1900. You see all of these different churches arising. All of them an expression of the goodness of God’s word in a specific time, a specific place with specific giftings. And when all of those churches remained true to the word of god and to the spirit of god, they had a powerful impact in their place and in their age.
But when they departed from that responsibility to stand on scripture, to stand on the truth, and they began to compromise and follow the culture’s way, they lost the power of their witness and very quickly many of them would begin to dissolve and lose their influence completely, much like Revelation describes in the letters to the churches. And so today, we have over 8,000 denominations around the world. Some of the fastest growing are Pentecostalism, the charismatic church, and then we also have, the Catholic church still being one of the largest in the world as well, closely followed by the Orthodox Church too. So these churches, there’s gonna be differences of practice and differences of opinion. How do we discern what is a true church and what is not? This is where I love the method called theological triage. This was suggested both by Gavin Ortland and by Albert Mohler, and I think both of their frameworks are extremely helpful. I’ve talked about this on my own podcast, on Verity podcast, where I talked about the tiers of of theology. And, basically, how it works is that there is a first level, first tier of theological discernment necessary when you’re looking out at the church.
You’re looking out at it and you’re going, okay. What are the main things? What’s the core here across all these denominations? If everybody’s a Christian, what do we all have to agree on? And I love what d k Chesterton said about this. He said, the core doctrines are the creeds and the historic conduct of those who held to such a creed. That means that those core creeds, those statements of faith, like the Apostle’s Creed that are written in the 1st few centuries of the church, guide us in what the main principles of Christianity are. But then on top of that, you have to look at the historic conduct of how Christians are called to live in the cultures in which they lived, which leads us to look at the epistles and how Christian morality is described and to see that consistently Christian morality is taken directly from the old testament in the 10 commandments. The Jewish understanding of morality is what was translated directly into the New Testament church. When it comes to sexuality, when it comes to murder, when it comes to lying, stealing, coveting, the 10 Commandments stand and are newly expressed in the spirit of our hearts. So we follow the theological creeds, these statements of faith that are based on scripture, and we follow the moral behaviors that are outlined in things like the 10 commandments and the standards for those things that were outlined in Leviticus.
Now I don’t mean that you’re following Levitical law. That’s another question we could answer another time. But that the standards of holiness, right relationship with God and right relationship with others are guiding the moral behaviors of Christians today. So knowing this about the denominations that they’re all an expression as far as they adhere to the word of God, they’re all an expression of the church of God, the spirit of God. They’re united in their core even if they have a different way of expressing things, you know, perhaps more expressive worship or maybe they’re more liturgical. They still have that same core. How about the individual Christians who when you are looking at them, you go, well, this person doesn’t seem to be convicted about these behaviors and this person is. This is where it gets tricky because sometimes it’s a maturity issue.
Sometimes it’s genuinely about maturity that somebody is a new believer and they they haven’t been discipled well to know, like, that’s foolish behavior. They’re not reading the word of God. They’re not asking the Holy Spirit to lead their behavior or sanctify them so they are making decisions that are foolish and are a bad witness. Whereas, the other person has been walking with the Lord longer and knows that. Other times, we simply make mistakes and we have to repent, and they maybe need somebody in their life who lovingly will address that with them. But sometimes, it is a matter simply of conviction. So for example, our family doesn’t celebrate Halloween, and we have really good reasons for why we don’t do that. And we get into those both on our website and on my social media.
But can I question someone else’s salvation if they celebrate Halloween? No. And here’s why. Halloween itself, though I think it’s worth thinking about and discerning and understanding, is not an issue of salvation. It’s not even fully an issue of morality. Because while scripture does speak to things like Halloween and festivals like it, it doesn’t specifically say that if someone participates in this holiday, they are putting their salvation at risk or that they are, you know, in a position where we should question their faith. So how do we then discern it? How is someone arriving at this conclusion? Well, that’s where you have to look at their receptiveness to the holy spirit. Christians have a responsibility to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, and we have episodes about that too. And when you listen to his conviction and you follow his conviction, you compare it to the word of god, you will be led into obedience in the areas where you’re called to obey.
And this is how Christians in one culture, a Christian in Africa, may be convicted to do certain things or not do certain things that a Christian in the United Kingdom may not feel convicted to do or not do because their culture needs their witness in a specific way. And so they need to be willing to listen to how god has convicted them to walk out their faith in those contexts and be obedient to be a witness to those places. Now the very baseline is belief in Christ and the morality that’s outlined in scripture, in Romans, in Ephesians, in Galatians, all based on the principles that we see in the old testament because Jesus came to fulfill the law not to get rid of it. All of the things that Jesus taught for us to do were originally found in the Old Testament and are now given to us by the spirit of God. So that’s a very long answer to your question. But it’s a complicated question and it’s one that I think needs a long answer. Denominations to me are a good thing. They reach the world in so many different ways and so many different expressions.
And as this world continues to move forward, I think we’re going to see a unity of the church in regard to this. We’re also going to see more and more Christians take seriously their holiness and the need to be set apart, listening to the spirit’s conviction and obeying him. Okay. Here’s one that’s super fundamental. Why did Jesus have to die and how or why did that cover our sins? This is a great question. Well, first, we have to go all the way back to Genesis 3. Genesis 1 through 3 where God creates humanity and he creates a world that is beautiful. But in order to have free relationship, love relationship with god, these people had to have the power of contrary choice.
You can’t have a love relationship if you are forced into relationship. If God is dictating all of your attitudes and responses, there is no freedom there. It’s not a relationship at all. It’s robotic. And so God recreated these human beings made in his image the children of God. And he placed them in a place where they could succeed at relationship with him if they so chose. They instead chose not to. And even for those who believe that Genesis 12 or 1 through 3 are allegorical, it still is a principle that applies that God created humans with the power of contrary choice, part of his own character.
See, God cannot do what is evil. But God also has a will and being made in his image means that he gave us a will too. A will that he hoped ultimately and knew we would use and that we used against him. When that happened, sin was invited into the world. And sin is to miss the mark. That’s what the Hebrew word means, to miss the mark of god’s holiness and goodness. God wasn’t playing a game with humans. He wanted relationship.
And here’s the beautiful thing about the gospel is that when God created this world and he created this relationship possibility, Not only did he offer that originally, but when humans broke it, God activated this rescue plan. And he went in and he said, all right, they made their decision, but I haven’t given up on them. And he starts a redemption plan to rescue humanity from their own sin. But because they had begun this path and they had entered into sin with their humanity, given their whole soul and their body over to what is anti god, only another human could redeem them. Only another human being could undo what the human beings had done. It says in scripture in Romans that the wages of sin is death. What’s death? It’s separation from God. He is the author of life.
And sin ends life in every single way. And so God becomes human. He takes on flesh. John 1 says, the word of God which is Jesus Christ became flesh and dwell among us. And we have seen his glory, the glory as from the Son of the father. So when Jesus came in the form of a baby, in this weak form that couldn’t offer anything productive or important, he came into our world to live life as a human, to suffer as we have, to experience the grief and then to experience death, to die as our substitute, to take the penalty we deserved, freely and willingly using his will, not for evil but for good, to undo what the first Adam did by becoming the second Adam. Jesus had to die not because God is a cosmic child abuser. Jesus chose to die because God is a cosmic human lover and he wants to redeem his people.
So Jesus laid down his life willingly on the cross, a Roman torture device. And then 3 days later, proved his power over death, over separation from God by rising from the dead. And that’s really the most important part of the story because if Jesus had not risen from the dead, then there is no such thing as Christianity. That is what broke the power of death and gave us the hope of living with God eternally. So what would have happened if Jesus had not come? We would have had an outstanding debt to God. Someone would have had to pay it, but none of us can. And so Jesus himself, god himself came in human form and laid himself down so that he could pay the price on our behalf and bring us back into fellowship with him. Everything in the Old Testament, the sacrificial system never covered sin.
It just temporarily cleansed the people so they could dwell in the presence of god. But when Jesus came, he was the final sacrifice, the perfect lamb, as Hebrews says, And his blood didn’t just temporarily cover but completely and utterly cleansed us from all sin. And so that is why that is why Jesus came. Now, there are many different theories on the atonement and what happened on the cross. But in this case, I’m sharing one which is a substitutionary model. There are others who believe that he came as the king reigning in victory. I think that’s valid also. And either way, is it a wild story? Sure is.
But I’ve heard Wilder and I think it’s the most compelling case for a loving God and purpose in the universe. Okay. Let’s take a look at our next question. Okay. This one made me laugh. Grace alone, but you know God’s got behavior expectations. Now, we talked about this a little bit in regard to morality. But, yes, salvation is by faith and grace.
How do we know this? Go all the way back to Genesis 15. Abraham, it says, believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. It was counted to him as righteousness because he trusted God’s word. So God’s story, God’s love, God’s promises when we believe God, put our trust in him, give our allegiance to God, say I believe you enough to to hang my hat on this story, to put my life on the line, I’m going to follow you, that is counted as righteousness. So we put our faith in Christ and then Christ grants us grace or favor. He gives us this grace and favor to move forward into our life without having to earn it. We don’t have to do anything to deserve it. We just get to move forward knowing that God’s favor is upon us.
So where does the behavior come in? Because we know god is holy and he wants us to be holy too. So, yeah, god’s got behavior expectations. How does that work? Well, one of the best ways that I have heard this described is from the standpoint of a parent. Now I know not all of you who are listening to this are parents. And so maybe you have a nephew or a niece or think about your own parents, if they were healthy parents, how they parented you or think about the best parent you know, when you you think about this analogy because human analogies to god are never perfect. But I love my children unconditionally. I love them no matter what. They have my favor.
They’re my children. And yet it is my responsibility for their safety and for their long term health to give them boundaries and to train them in what is good and righteous and true and beautiful. If I don’t do that, I hurt them for the long run because not only will they hurt themselves, their trajectory, their future, their career, they’ll hurt other people around them. And so the righteous law of God is coming from his father heart. Yes. He says, I favor you. You are my children. I love you.
And my law is good. And my gospel is peace. My law is what shows you what a good life looks like that points to god on earth and says, look at the hope, look at the peace, look at the joy. You will reap the goodness of god in the land of the living when you walk in his ways. That doesn’t mean everything will go perfectly for you or that you’ll never suffer. But that you will see the fruit of God’s righteousness in your life. You will have peace when they’re suffering. You will have more peace in your relationships than if you follow the world’s way.
You will see God’s blessing on your life, not just material blessing, but the blessings of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. God is a good father. And so, he favors you and he loves you. And all of the laws, all of the teachings that Jesus had on how to live in this world are for your good and for the good of those around you. Okay. Here’s a great question, and I’m going to actually provide a resource for this one. When I was a new believer, I wondered, how can I trust the bible hasn’t been changed? Excellent question. One of my favorite topics, the history of the canon.
How is the Bible put together? Why can we trust it? And we actually have an entire book on this in the Every Woman A Theologian shop. It is called How the Bible Came to Be. And it’s just a quick history of how the Bible was compiled and why you can trust it. So that’s a great resource that I highly recommend. Another resource is right here on YouTube. You can check it out. It is by Timothy Paul Jones and it will teach you all about how the bible was compiled in video form. So if you search Timothy Paul Doan’s Bible, it will come right up.
That’s a great resource as well. How do I know that I’m believing enough to be saved? This question kinda breaks my heart because I know so many people struggle with feeling like they are truly saved. And I have some episodes on assurance that might encourage you. But when it comes to your faith, you have to remember something. You did not wake up one day just deciding that you were gonna follow god. God, in all of his goodness, first pursued you. The holy spirit came after you. He sought after you.
He wanted you. And he does that for every single person in some way at some point in their life. Some way, somehow, god will give everyone a chance revealed through creation, revealed through dreams or visions or the preaching of the gospel. He will allow every person to have a chance at knowing him, Romans 1. So, he initiated this and now your response to him in response to his call is where this question is coming from. How do I know I have enough faith? Well, number 1, faith is not a feeling. Faith is not about drumming something up or an emotion where you feel like maybe you believe so now you believe. Faith is hope in something that you cannot see, having enough information to put your hope in it.
And so when you think about having faith, you must not focus just on your emotions about it. But what’s the truth? Who is the person you’re putting faith in and are they trustworthy? In this case, Jesus. Is Jesus trustworthy enough for you to give your allegiance to him? If he is and you say yes, you confess and you repent and you believe, you are saved. That’s what Romans tells us. That’s what Jesus said. And so you don’t need to battle in your heart about getting to that point of really feeling saved. It’s not a feeling. It’s a fact.
It’s a truth. He said, if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, you shall be saved. That is how you become a part of the family of God. And out of that, there may be great emotions. There may be, you know, a journey that’s exciting. It’s an adventure to walk with God. However, never be deceived into thinking that this is about your effort and your faith in keeping you saved. Christ keeps you.
He saves you. He is the one on whom you state your faith and he does not change. That’s where your security is. You don’t have to worry about drumming up more faith. You can say, Lord, help my unbelief, remind me of who you are, and then be in the word of God so you know who he is and you know what to trust. It’s not about you, it’s about him. Alright. Our last question here before we wrap up, we have so many great questions.
I’m gonna have to do another episode just to cover all of them. Okay. Let’s end with this one. How often do I read the bible or where do I start? Now, we have an episode about this in the beginner believer series. But I want to revisit this because I think that this particularly is such an important question. It can be really intimidating to read the Bible when you’re a new believer. And and I understand how intimidating that can be. This is an ancient text.
It’s a big book. Where do I begin? If you are just starting out, I love the gospel of John. I love the gospel of John. It is such a fantastic resource. It is walking through the truths of the gospel in such an accessible way. It’s a book of the Bible I return to often with chapters that I just ingest to remind me of God’s goodness and his love for me and his favor for me and the fact that I am never separated from him. So I love starting in the gospel of John first. If you want to go to the old testament, I really do love the book of Genesis.
And the reason why is because we get to a really good look at how God still loves imperfect people, which I think is so important to grasp when you’re first coming to faith. This is not about becoming perfect. This is not about willpowering yourself, but that God can still work in the lives of people who fail and that he’s looking for faith. He’s looking for trust and he will redeem even the darkest story. Now books like Genesis, the Old Testament will bring up a lot of questions and that’s where we’re happy to be here to help you as you have those questions and are going through a book like Genesis and feeling intimidated by the things that come up. But don’t be afraid of that. This is a lifelong journey of studying the Bible. How often should you read it? I would really encourage a little bit every day.
Or if you’re in a super busy season, do 3 days a week of a deep dive. So either a little bit every day or deep dives 3 times a week and try to find a really great Bible study you can join through a local church. Find somebody that will disciple you or meet with you where you can learn about scripture together and really go deep because that’s where things are changed. And that’s where you begin to actually grow. It’s very hard to grow in-depth as a new believer by yourself. And so, find a local church, find a bible study or a small group, somebody to disciple you so that you can start to really grow in your understanding of scripture. I have full confidence in you. I believe in you.
I know that you will do so, so well in learning to make a discipline out of your bible reading. Now, if you need help or if you want to start with something really light for the gospel of John, our not so quiet time guide on the gospel of John is the perfect resource. I designed this to be accessible and easy to use for those who are new to bible study. So you’ll simply read a chapter of John a day, answer 5 questions, and then read a poem and look at a related art piece. And I’ve also included a QR code to a worship song related to something that happened in the chapter. So it’s very interactive. It’s very engaging. And it’s not intimidating for those who are just starting out.
It works well for teenagers, those who have a homeschool community, or those who just want to study on their own for the first time. So if you’re looking for something in the gospel of John, that’s a super great option. But we also have verse by verse studies on Galatians, Revelation, Leviticus, and 1st through third John. Yes. There’s another bunch of John books in the bible too. And these are very short. They’re little letters that were written by the apostle John. So if you want something a little bit shorter and lighter focused on the love of God, our 1st to third John verse by verse study might be a great choice for you.
And all of these are available in our shop at phyliciamasonheimer.com/shop. Thank you so much for submitting these awesome questions. They’re phenomenal, and you guys are always welcome to email questions to us at felicia at phyliciamasonheimer.com. We will take those to heart and integrate them into our plan as we create more episodes in the beginner believer series and as we plan the series after this. As always, thank you for listening and watching Verity podcast. Click the button to subscribe and follow along for all of our new episodes. And we are so grateful if you are listening on iTunes, if you would leave us a review. It helps other listeners to find us.
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