838: From Gay Activist to Gay Evangelist: David Bennett
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
David Bennett is the real deal. As he details in his book A War of Loves, David used to be a gay activist and ardent opponent to Christianity. But then one day, God met him in a pub. And the rest is history. David is currently a Ph.D. student in theology at Oxford University and a dynamic speaker, theologian, and evangelist. In this episode, we talk about his story, celibacy, Jesus, same-sex sexuality, Jesus, the gospel, Jesus, sexual desire and its intrinsic relationship to communion with God, and Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today my |
| 0:04.9 | good friend David Bennett and he is the author of a War of Loves, the unexpected story of a gay |
| 0:11.3 | activist discovering Jesus. He has an amazing story. You're going to hear bits and pieces of that |
| 0:16.0 | in this episode. He was on the podcast a couple years ago where he told a more lengthy version of |
| 0:22.4 | his testimony in this podcast because he's already told a story before on this show and many times |
| 0:28.3 | elsewhere. I told him to just give a shortened version of a story but we got into all kinds of |
| 0:34.9 | super interesting conversations surrounding sexuality and God and the church and all that jazz. |
| 0:43.4 | So please welcome back to the show. Do you want it only? David Bennett. |
| 1:03.9 | David Bennett. So good to have you back on the show man. |
| 1:08.2 | It's great to be back for us then and you've been on this sabbatical? Is that right? |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah it was a technically it was called a study break because I didn't have like a specific one |
| 1:19.6 | project that's kind of working on but man yeah just to get out of the we were out of the country for |
| 1:25.6 | a little bit we're out of the routine. I didn't check social media for like two months that that alone |
| 1:34.2 | or or the news. I said you know what? I know that like checking all these news apps every morning |
| 1:40.6 | I wake up and next day I know it's been like two hours and I'm gone from article article. I'm |
| 1:45.1 | getting pulled to the left. I'm getting pulled to the right. I'm like I know they're trying to suck |
| 1:49.8 | me in and get me angry so I click on more articles so their advertisements go like it's all a machine |
| 1:55.6 | you know and I'm like to get away from that for two months was incredible. Honestly I think like |
| 2:05.8 | I'm doing my doctorate obviously here in Oxford and that's one of the things I'm probably |
| 2:10.0 | going to have to do for about the next nine months. Yeah you know it just go completely offline |
| 2:16.4 | because it just pulls you in at every angle you know and especially the conversations we've had |
| 2:23.5 | like things have developed there's like just constantly new things happening and you just can't |
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