That's what I love about him: immersed in culture, very culturally aware, yet super sharp theologically and apologetics not as a weapon, but as a means to discuss Jesus with people and truth in a way that he relates to them there in Australia.ĭefinitely. No, I've gotten to meet John, and it was such fun to hear his musical background and he's such a genius thinker and culturally so aware.
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Logic and also be emotional in music?" And I said, "Well, I can respond better emotionally to something if I'm convinced that it's actually true." Because as a singer and guitar player, sometimes people will be like, "How can you be Mr. I love having musicians, who are also into apologetics, work on the show. We've had John Dixon on the show as well. But I can strum some chords. So I sit here sometimes and play with that. Yeah, I keep this to just plunk along with every now and then. Yeah, a lot of people don't know that you were in a rockabilly punk band in London. And that's another whole story, but it was through searching out, "Could this be true?" which God used in my life to show that there was truth and God's Spirit took over basically and showed me that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
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Josh McDowell, in those early years, was actually very important because I'm like, "Look at these books, I didn't know there were resources to read about this." And I eventually put my faith in Jesus in London, England, while I was in a punk rock band in a tiny little elderly church. So for me, I was very cautious about taking steps of "Is this true?" which got me into apologetic books and all different types of things.
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They were just concerned for me, believing something that may not be true, or even in danger of getting into a cult. How can you possibly believe that?" And at the time, all the end times, Tim LaHaye stuff was very in focus culturally. So there's an awareness of "Are you waiting for the end to come?" And that really stuck in my mind because it wasn't that they were anti-Christian. I thought they all were okay.Īnd that got me on a quest, searching out the origins of scripture and then my friends who weren't Christians, this is actually a very important part of my story was that my friends who weren't Christians and the girl that I was dating at the time, they were concerned for me when I started reading the Bible, because they're wondering, "Are you going to be getting into a cult? What is this Christian thing? Just a dead man came back to life. And I can just remember that as a college student, "Do Christians really believe that?" And I had no… It had to be God, because in my mind, I was like, "God, are you there? Is this true?" Because I never assumed that there was just one religion. But that little tract was saying there is only one way to God, and that was through Jesus. And you never know where these things lead. And then I went to Colorado State University and it was there during your college years where I read a little tiny tract that a campus club was handing out. I probably would have said, oh, there's some God just culturally. And I wasn't actually an atheist, or I wouldn't say I was even agnostic.
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Yeah, I was raised in Paramus, New Jersey, which is a suburb of New York City. Now Dan, you help people better understand the Christian faith and that there are good reasons to believe Christian truth claims, but it was not always so. So before we get into our topic, why don't you tell us a little bit about your spiritual journey. And it is sunny outside, I'm looking out the window right now. So there is sunshine here. Welcome, Dan.Īnd welcome from Santa Cruz to you. And our topic on The Table podcast today is "Making sense of strange Bible passages." My guest coming to us today from sunshiny California is Dan Kimball, lead teacher at Vintage Faith Church and an Associate Professor of Leadership and Theology at Western Seminary. I'm Mikel Del Rosario, Cultural Engagement Manager here at The Hendricks Center at Dallas Theological Seminary. Welcome to The Table where we discuss issues of God and culture.