Hey guys, welcome to a relatable happy Friday. Today I am talking to Dr. Vody Bacchum. I am so

excited about this and I know a lot of you are too. He has been so helpful and helping me shape

my biblical world view and his ministry has been so influential over thousands and thousands of

people and he has special insight into social justice theology and how it is damaging the evangelical

church today and the particular ways that it is incongruent with the biblical world view. So I am

so excited to talk to him to hear about his story and his testimony, how he came to know the

Lord and how the Lord has led him down this journey of having so much influence and then we will

talk especially and particularly about the gospel and why it is better than the critical theory

theology and philosophy that is being shoved in our faces today. So without further ado, here is Dr. Vody

Bacchum. Dr. Bacchum, thank you so much for joining me. It's my pleasure. I'm glad to be here.

Glad we finally worked this out. Yes, me too. I think most people listening to this and watching

know exactly who you are, they have watched your videos especially lately but can you tell everyone

who you are and what you do just in case there are some people who don't know? Yeah, well, I'm

Vody Bacchum. I am, I mean, I wear a lot of hats. I've been preaching for three decades now and have

served the church and a number of capacities as pastor and a tenor preacher and five years ago,

we moved to Lusaka, Zambia. I was serving in Houston, Texas. We were planted a church there

in spring and northeastern and the Lord called us to Zambia five years ago to come and help start

the African Christian University here which was started by the Reform Baptist churches of Zambia.

And so yeah, we've been here for the last five years, married to Bridget for 31 years. We have

nine children, seven sons and two daughters and we have now two grandsons and seven of our children

are actually here, they're still at home, they're still here with us. So yeah, that's who I am.

And you were born and raised in Los Angeles, were you raised in a Christian home?

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