Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

In your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 291 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today

helps you lead like never before.

Well, I am thrilled to have David Platt back on the podcast.

It's been a great week, Max Lucado the other day, David Platt today.

David Platt is a New York Times best-selling author.

He is also a pastor of McLean Bible Church.

We talk a little bit about the succession

that he was a part of at that church.

This is a huge issue. Succession is a big issue in the church. It's a big issue in

business, so we talk about that. But mostly in this episode we talk about something that's

really interesting me I've been studying I'm a Christian obviously I have been

studying atheism and the objections to Christianity in some great detail over the last couple of years and really

intriguing and so David did this trip to Southeast Asia where he really well he'll

I don't want to spoil it but he just hiked and did these

incredible climbs into some of the worst poverty he's ever seen and he has been

all over the world the place where he went was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism.

And David and I talk about like, okay, in the midst of all that and the most challenging

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