Welcome to the conversations that matter Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We have a very special

guest today, Randy Adams. Randy, you are running for president of the Southern Baptist

Convention and there are a lot of fans of the

podcast who are Southern Baptist and I think they're going to want to hear from you a little bit

about why you're running and especially kind of what where are things

at in the Southern Baptist Convention I mean does the Southern Baptist

Convention have cancer if so is it stage one is at stage four so we're looking forward to

getting into some of these things and I just want to thank you for joining me and

being willing to discuss this stuff you bet thank you John appreciate the

opportunity my pleasure well first of all could you just let people know a little Thank you, John. Appreciate the opportunity. My pleasure.

Well, first of all, could you just let people know a little bit about yourself?

Where you're working for the SBC, and what capacity are you doing that right now?

Tell us a little bit about just your story of coming to faith and then

being involved with the Southern Baptists. Sure. Came to faith in Montana, grew up

in Montana, came to faith as a very young boy actually, but it really

wasn't personal to me and wasn't until I was a teenager.

I was 16 and I was running getting in shape for football.

My brother was with me. He dropped over dead. He was 14. I was 16. And he was a very strong

kid, best athlete in town his age.

And you know when you go through something like that,

it brings everything to a point and to focus.

And I remember thinking at some point if you don't know Jesus life ends

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