Welcome to After the Fact, The Knowing Faith mini episode where we look to take a big question and address it in just a few minutes.

Our After The Fact episodes this season are brought to you by our season sponsor, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

We love their motto, which is for the church.

That resonates so deeply with the goal of knowing faith, which is to see a theological

movement that is both from and for the church.

And joining us today is Dr. Jeff Chang.

Dr. Chang serves as associate professor of church history and historical theology at Midwestern

Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Spurgeon, the pastor, recovering a biblical and

theological vision for ministry, and Christ are all poems for the Christian pilgrim. Both of these

books are available wherever books are sold. If you have come to this episode,

then you know that Dr. Chang is Mr. Spurgeon around these parts. And so Dr. Chang, I want to

welcome you to After the Fact. Thank you for joining us again. It's great to be with you,

Kyle. So I got to tell the audience here, this is different from any After the Fact episode

you've ever

clicked on because I am treating this like a lightning round episode with Dr. Chang. I did not

tell him these topics ahead of time. I did tell him right before we recorded what our options were.

And so I'm going to ask Dr. Chang, what if I ask Charles Spurgeon for his

thoughts on? And then I've got three pretty culturally hot topics to talk about. And he's going to

kind of just go off the cuff with his reading expertise and experience with Charles Spurgeon. I don't know if you know this,

but Dr. Chang is an expert on Spurgeon and has given a tremendous consideration to Spurgeon's

writing material. And so we're going to try to just kind of get what Spurgeon's instincts are

on these questions, questions that I think at least for one of them,

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