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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Best-selling Evangelistic Book Update

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What makes Jesus so different than other religious leaders? How can you prove Christianity is true? How should we evaluate the claim that “Jesus changed my life.” We’ll answer these questions and much more as Sean and I discuss the revision that he and his dad, Josh McDowell recently did to the bestselling and impactful book, More Than a Carpenter. ==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which offers ...

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0:00.0

What makes Jesus so different in other religious leaders?

0:05.4

How can you prove that Christianity is true?

0:07.7

How should we evaluate the claim that Jesus changed my life?

0:11.5

When I answer these questions and much more,

0:13.4

as Sean and I discussed the revision that he and his dad, Josh McDowell,

0:16.8

recently did to the best-selling and impactful book,

0:19.8

More Than a Carpenter.

0:21.3

I'm your host, Scott Ray, and Sean is technically my guest today.

0:24.4

All right.

0:25.1

And this is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

0:30.0

Sean, I wonder, I wish we had all of our listeners on video today.

0:34.8

Because I'd love to take a show of hands from our listeners to see how many of them

0:38.6

have read more than a carpet.

0:40.4

I suspect it's a pretty good number.

0:43.5

Because the book has sold more than 30 million copies around the world.

0:49.0

And probably, as you suggested a few minutes ago before we went on camera, probably a little less than half of those have been international.

0:57.1

That's right.

0:58.0

So why do you think this book has been so influential?

1:01.8

That's a great place to start with.

1:03.3

I'd say a few things.

1:04.2

I think number one is it's short and it's to the point.

1:07.6

So even in 1977 when my dad first wrote it, there was a sense where you could

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