E313: The #1 Reason To Be Christian w/Gavin Ortlund | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Gavin Ortlund's mission is to help bring the confidence and joy of the Gospel to as many people as possible. Today, Gavin and I sit down to discuss all things Christianity: whether CS Lewis would use YouTube, whether the Bible is the sole authority for Christians, and how to bring a spirit of unity to all theological conversations.
Gavin's channel: @TruthUnites
Gavin's Website: https://truthunites.org/about-gavin-ortlund/
Gavin X: https://x.com/gavinortlund
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| 0:33.9 | Oh man, I think about this a lot. This is the nerve center of it all. Has the Roman Catholic |
| 0:37.5 | Church stood the test of time for 2,000 years on these issues? You mean Magisterium that you felt they contradicted themselves? Yes. In the Magisterium? Correct. For example, when I look at Luther and Calvin, there are a lot of beliefs that they have that most Protestants today don't have. One of them is the question of... |
| 0:53.6 | What you just raised is a very strong point. |
| 0:56.2 | Evangelicals are weak in this area and don't even know that we're doing that. Have you ever asked God if it is true? Give me the grace to believe it. This is why I value Soliscriptural. What is the number one reason that somebody should become a Christian? If you couldn't be Protestant, would you be Orthodox or Catholic? Oh, bet. Gavin Ortland, welcome to the podcast. So thankful to be here. Thankful for your work and what you do for the pro-life cause, especially, but so many other things as well. So this is an honor for me. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'm so grateful for you being a bold apologist for life and a winsome one, which is, I think, |
| 1:29.5 | sometimes lost in the weeds when you're getting into these debates. |
| 1:32.5 | People can get full of anger or self-righteousness even, and you do it with such a loving |
| 1:37.0 | winsomeness. |
| 1:38.1 | So thank you. |
| 1:38.9 | You've written a book about how to do it with a loving winsomeness, too. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah, well, we want to win people over, right? |
| 1:44.1 | We don't just want to win people over, right? |
| 1:49.0 | We don't just want to be against what is wrong. We want to rally the troops to what is right. |
| 1:53.5 | And so that's what I want to give my life to. Yes. You were sharing about how you used to be pastoring a church in Ohio, California, fellow Californian. But then during COVID, you ended up |
| 1:59.0 | starting your online apologetics ministry, and now you've left |
| 2:02.6 | and you're in Tennessee, and you're doing that full time. What was the inspiration for that? |
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