I Pledge Allegiance to King Jesus: An Interview with Matthew Bates

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What do you think of when you hear “allegiance”? The Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag…)? Pledging your allegiance is dedicating your life to something. It’s not just being willing to suffer and die for a cause; it’s living it out in everything you do. Is that how you view Christianity? In this episode, https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Keith) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick) discuss allegiance and the gospel with http://matthewwbates.com/Gospel-Allegiance.php (Dr. Matthew Bates), a professor of Theology at the Quincy University, author of the newly released book http://matthewwbates.com/Gospel-Allegiance.php (Gospel Allegiance), and co-host of the podcast https://onscript.study/ (OnScript). Join the discussion to learn what discipleship looks like, how to be faithful, and where grace fits in. Interested in more content like this? Make sure to scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including a conversation covering https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/kanye-west-jesus-is-king-the-christian-response-keith-and-patrick/ (Kanye West, Jesus is King, & the Christian Response). To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.0	And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:13.0	On today's episode, Keith and I are going to be interviewing Matthew Bates.
0:18.0	He's a New Testament scholar and the author of a new book, Gospel Allegiance.
0:22.0	We're really glad to have Matthew Bates here with us, author of Gospel Allegiance, a book that has really
0:28.6	affected Patrick and I, and we're really glad that you came in town to visit with us about it Matt. I want to get to know a little bit about you though before we get into the book.
0:37.0	So you were an engineer who went to New Testament and got your PhD. That's not a normal course for most people.
0:43.6	Tell us a little bit about that.
0:44.8	Yeah, it is not a normal path.
0:47.0	Although sometimes I wonder if there might be a little more link
0:50.0	between the hard physical sciences and biblical interpretation, there's some sort of similar logic.
0:55.8	But yeah, I did my undergrad in physics at Whitworth University, and in the midst of doing that,
1:00.9	I think I found myself wondering if science really had the kind of ability to answer the sort of questions I wanted answered.
1:09.0	And I hoped it did, but I think I came to find out that it did not.
1:13.0	Science is useful, it's beautiful within its own domain and a very helpful tool, but the more I learned
1:18.6	about it, the more I realized it depends on certain philosophical and theological presuppositions and I got more interested in learning about those and so started studying
1:27.4	scripture much more seriously. I was already a Christian at this point in time but began to do things like learn Greek and
1:34.2	study biblical studies in a much more intense way and that led to seminary
1:37.6	eventually. When you're driving down here today Patrick and I were trying to
1:40.6	figure out what you would be driving because we knew you had a big family and I picked the 15 passenger van and I think I won that.
1:46.5	You're right. It is a big for transit. I love it. So I guess your family's just walking wherever they want to go today?
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