In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. If we are to preach the gospel, share the gospel,

proclaim the gospel to others, we must believe it. And if we are to believe it, we must understand it.

It is a heretical, gnostic notion to think that understanding and belief are somehow

divorced from one another.

And that's what much of our modern evangelical culture has insisted.

They'll say, yeah, sure, to preach the gospel shamelessly,

unapologetically, certainly you must believe it. If you're going to shamelessly preach the gospel,

then you have to be authentic. It has to be genuine. It has to be something that you yourself believe.

Like any good salesman, if he's going to be successful, it helps tremendously if he actually

believes in the product that he's attempting to get others to buy.

So evangelicalism doesn't really have much of an opposition to the principle up to this point.

The idea that if you're going to preach the gospel well, if you're going to do so persuasively,

and if you're going to do so unapologetically, you must believe it yourself.

What you are presenting to others must be something that you believe yourself.

Where evangelicals will then

derail is when you follow that statement up by saying, and that which you yourself believe,

it must also be something necessarily that you understand. This idea that, well, you believe

with your heart and you know with your mind,

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