Dr. Tony Evans, Pastor/Author/Speaker - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of more than 100 books, booklets and Bible studies.
He joined us on Episode 129 of our show to talk about his work with the Dallas Cowboys, how he got started in sports ministry, where the state of faith is in the NBA and the biggest spiritual battles athletes face.
On this THROWBACK edition, we hear Dr. Evans share about the church's current role in the climate we're living in today and what his biggest regret is in his ministry.
You can listen to the entire interview from Episode 129 in July of 2018 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.5 | Today we look back on last year, July 16th, 2018, when I had the honor and privilege to |
| 0:32.1 | interview Dr. Tony Evans. |
| 0:34.6 | And if you know that name, you know that he's a pastor, a speaker. |
| 0:38.5 | He's the Dallas Mavericks team chaplain in the NBA. And he's authored tons of books. He's one of the most |
| 0:43.5 | renowned speakers in the Christian space. And he joined us in episode number 129 of the Sports |
| 0:52.0 | Spectrum podcast last summer. |
| 0:54.7 | And it was an honor. |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, it really was to talk to him about his work, |
| 0:58.3 | not only with the Dallas Mavericks, |
| 0:59.6 | but with the Dallas Cowboys, |
| 1:01.4 | getting started in sports ministry, |
| 1:04.1 | the state of faith in the NBA. |
| 1:06.0 | There was lots of interesting places that we went in this interview. |
| 1:10.5 | And today we just bring you a snippet of that here on the throwback edition of the podcast. |
| 1:15.3 | And we talked to Dr. Evans about a variety of things, including the state of the church and the role of the church in the climate that we live in today here in 2018, 2019. |
| 1:30.2 | What is the role of the church? Take a listen to Dr. Tony Evans, a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast, episode number 129, here on Sports |
| 1:36.9 | Specter. |
| 1:43.3 | Dr. Evans, I want to pivot just a minute and talk about sort of the culture that we live in. |
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