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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

DR. JOE BOOT | The Church, The State, & The Kingdom of God (Ep. 289)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Joe Boot to the show. He is a Christian thinker, cultural apologist/philosopher, the founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and the founding pastor of Westminster Chapel, Toronto, where he currently resides. Joe is originally from Great Britain and has worked in the fields of Christian apologetics, worldview education, and church leadership for over twenty years on both sides of the Atlantic. He regularly addresses pastors and Christian leaders as well as academic, medical, legal, and political professionals and has publicly debated leading atheist thinkers and philosophers in Canada and the United States. He is the author of many books, including his new book that we’ll be spending a lot of time with during the interview, Ruler of Kings. In this interview, we discuss how Christians should view the government, a concept called “sphere sovereignty,” how the “cult of the expert” affects public policy, how he deals with the problem of evil/pain, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. Hi guys,

0:23.6

today I've got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Dr. Joe Boot. So Dr. Joe Boot is a Christian

0:28.6

thinker, cultural, apologists and philosopher and also the founder of the Ezra Institute for contemporary

0:33.6

Christianity and founding pastor of Westminster Chapel in Toronto, where he currently resides. So

0:38.4

Joe is originally from Great Britain and he has worked in the fields of Christian apologetics

0:42.7

and worldview education and church leadership for over 20 years, both here in North America

0:47.3

and across the pond. He's done a lot of speaking engagements over his career, a lot of debates. He

0:51.6

actually regularly addresses pastors and Christian leaders as well as academic, medical, legal,

0:56.7

and political professionals as he does these public debates leading with leading atheist thinkers

1:02.2

and philosophers in Canada and the United States. He really, really engages with a lot of things

1:06.7

about the Christian worldview on a regular basis. He's the author of a lot of different books,

1:10.8

including his new book, which we'll be spending a lot of the time during this interview talking

1:14.4

about and that is ruler of kings. So the thing about this interview is we can win in a lot of

1:19.3

different directions. We have somewhat limited time. We're going to take care of that later in the

1:22.4

future. We're going to have him on to talk about some other things. He deals with so many things in the

1:25.9

world of theology and philosophy and Christian apologetics, but the overwhelming majority of our

1:30.4

time today was spent on the role between essentially the government and the church or the government

1:36.3

and God. And so that is what the main stay and the main focus of his book, Ruler of Kings is

1:41.1

because guys in this world that we live in right now with COVID, we're going into three years now

1:45.6

of this COVID stuff and the overreach and tyrannical overreach really have a lot of governments

1:49.8

around the country. You know, we see these internment camps essentially in Australia. We've seen

1:53.9

some of the crazy lockdown issues that they're having in Europe. All the craziness going on

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