Welcome to the podcast Think Biblical

Biblical, Conversations on Faith and Culture. I'm your host Scott Ray,

Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology here at viola University.

We're here at Spring Training in Arizona today with a very special guest, the ace of the Dodgers pitching staff for the last decade or so, Left hand to picture Clayton Kirschaw.

Clayton, thank you so much for joining us for this

and letting us ask you a few questions about your faith.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thanks for having.

Yeah, I'm also joined by my faculty colleague and Dodgers chaplain Brandon Cash.

So Brandon thanks for co-hosting with me today.

Good to be here. Clayton, tell us a little bit about your spiritual journey, how you came to faith in Christ and sort of where you are.

Yeah, my testimony is I guess not too special or anything like that, but you know, I grew up in Dallas Texas and you know it's kind of the Bible belt of the country and you know there's a church on every corner and

very fortunate to have a home that got to grow up in the church and got to go every

Sunday and did that growing up all the way through but it wasn't until my sophomore

or junior in high school where I started thinking that you know Jesus probably needed to have a decision you know is either you're all

in on Jesus and you're really understanding what that means in your life or you probably don't need even

going to church there's no lukewarm, you know, as I've heard before.

So for me, I really started praying about that at that point.

And that's kind of when I say that my walk kind of started with Christ.

And ever since then then it's been obviously the

foundation for me. Okay so who were some of the people along the way who have

impacted you

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