Faith for the Curious (with Mark Matlock)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Are there non-Christians who are genuinely open to hearing about the Christian faith? According to Mark Matlock, author of Faith for the Curious, there is a large segment of people who are genuinely spiritually curious. But, the key is to understand them accurately and to engage them in the right way. In this episode, Sean and Scott talk with Mark about how to understand and engage those today who are spiritually open and curious.Mark Matlock is Senior Fellow at Barna and a facilitator of inn...

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0:00.0	Are non-christians genuinely curious about faith issues? If so, how can we practically engage
0:08.8	the spiritually curious today in our families, workplace, and neighborhoods.
0:13.0	Our guest today is back on the Think Bibbically podcast, Mark Matlock.
0:17.0	Not only is he a Biola alum, but he has a fascinating new book out that is researched based through his work at
0:24.8	Barna called Faith for the Curious. I'm your host Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host
0:30.6	Scott Ray and this is the Think Bibbically Podcast
0:33.4	from Talbot School of Theology Biola University.
0:36.8	Mark, thanks for coming back on, man.
0:39.2	It is great to be with you guys.
0:40.8	Thanks for having me on today.
0:42.4	Now, your book is focused on engaging
0:44.7	the spiritually curious. So who is this group and how is this group different from
0:50.4	people who are not spiritually curious.
0:54.3	It's a great first opening question.
0:56.2	You know, I started noticing and research that we were doing at Barna
0:59.5	that there was this really large percentage of Americans that didn't fit real neatly into some of the
1:05.6	categories that we all typically have when we think about non-Christians.
1:09.7	And as I was doing some work with pastors with the Seed Company and the American Bible Society.
1:16.0	I realized that these frames were kind of rigid and that we believe kind of that most of the unbelieving world was kind of hostile
1:25.8	toward Christianity, wasn't really open to supernatural things, tended to believe
1:30.8	more in evolution than they did anything else.
1:33.0	And the research was just showing this really weird group of,
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