Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a conversation with Rebecca McLaughlin and Sam Chan on answering the skeptic's hardest questions.

It was recorded at our 2025 national conference.

The way we're going to stretch this time,

Sam is going to talk for a few minutes,

then I'm going to talk for a few minutes,

and then we've got two mics set up

where we want you to come and ask questions

because we want this to be a live and interactive experience. So I'm gonna kick it over to Sam in a second, and I don't know that I'm gonna introduce you because they probably know from the programs, like, who you are. So we're just gonna take that as red. Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Chan. Oh, hey, I don't think anyone here does know who I am.

They've all come here for you, Rebecca,

and I think they just want me to speak as little as possible

and just get out of the way as quickly as possible.

But if you're at my seminar yesterday,

you will know my standard introduction is

the reason why I'm standing up here is I'm short I can't present

sitting down I'm in the shortest 1% of the population in a room full of 100 men I'm the shortest

man in that room and I'm also Asian but grew up in Australia I work as a medical doctor

also in full-time Christian ministry but I have three boys boys. I'm married to Steph. She should be in the room somewhere, but she can't find Sagamore Ballroom one to four. That's all right. I couldn't either. So she'll be coming in a little bit later. But we have three boys. And if you were at a seminar yesterday, you will know that I have told them that when they grow up,

chances are they will be just like me, not very good looking and very, very short. So no girl is ever going to like them. Their only chance in life is to study hard and make a lot of

money. Now, it's a joke. I've never said that, but every Asian in the room right now is saying,

hang on, are you sure you're joking? Because that's what I tell my kids. No, it's a joke.

Okay, so my experience with evangelism and sort of answering questions is I work these days with

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