J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders

in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV.

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christiane.

Welcome back to the cold-case Christiane podcast, I'm J. Warner Wallace.

Kind of in our summer late summer fall series of hit-and-miss podcast topics,

I'm not in the middle of a series of anything right now, and Jimmy is a fast at work on a project

himself, so we're not doing joint podcasts right now.

But we are getting a chance to do interviews, you'll start hearing some of those,

and just to get a chance to also talk about some of the topics that I find fascinating,

and if somebody calls or emails me a question, it usually triggers a response from me,

and if I'm going to write out a response to somebody, and I often can't do that,

because of the nature of I'm overwhelmed with emails, but when I do get a chance to do it,

well, then I start thinking about that topic even in a much deeper way.

And this week, what I want to talk about is a little bit about the importance of evangelism,

and I know that, you know, most of us get that, we sense that there's a call on our lives

to fulfill the great commission. But a lot of us who are interested in Christian apologetics,

well, that's not necessarily the same kind of people who be interested in street evangelism,

right? Or how it is we are to articulate the gospel in a clear, effective, concise manner.

I mean, a lot of us who make a case for Christianity on either podcasts or on the stage or in books,

we don't really ever preach the gospel that we're not asked to.

And sometimes people will say, when you come to our church and you do Sunday morning,

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