diff --git a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
index fffddac81..e81740399 100755
--- a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.callbacks import (
 )
 from axolotl.utils.callbacks.lisa import lisa_callback_factory
 from axolotl.utils.callbacks.profiler import PytorchProfilerCallback
-from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template
+from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template_from_config
 from axolotl.utils.collators import (
     BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
     DataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
@@ -1834,8 +1834,8 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         training_arguments_kwargs["model_type"] = self.cfg.model_config_type
         training_arguments_kwargs["pretraining"] = bool(self.cfg.pretraining_dataset)
         if self.cfg.chat_template:
-            training_arguments_kwargs["chat_template"] = get_chat_template(
-                self.cfg.chat_template,
+            training_arguments_kwargs["chat_template"] = get_chat_template_from_config(
+                cfg=self.cfg,
                 tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
             )