Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On today's show, I have a returning guest, Professor Daryl L. Bach. We talked back in July 22, 2021, about a book he just published recently titled Cultural Intelligence, Living for God in a Diverse, pluralistic World. But today we're going to talk about a book, a second edition that he published in 2017, titled Jesus According to Scripture, Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels, very detailed scholarly inquiry into kind of early church and how the Gospels were put together. But Dr. Bach has earned recognition as a humbled scholar from Tubajin University

in Germany and is the author of over 40 books, including well-regarded commentaries on Luke and Acts

and studies of the historical Jesus and work in cultural engagement as host of the Seminaries'

Table Podcasts. He was president of the Evangelical Theological Society from 2000 to 2001,

writes for the Christianity Today's Places and Space Series,

and serves on the boards of Wheaton College, Chosen People Ministries,

the Institute for Global Engagement, and Christians in Public Service.

His articles appear in leading publications. He's often an expert on the Christians in Public Service. His articles appear in leading

publications. He's often an expert on the media in New Testament issues. And Dr. Bach has been a New York

Times bestselling author and non-fiction and his elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church

in Dallas. And you can see kind of a list of his books that I included in my

earlier interview with him in July. So I suggest people go back and listen to, again, that book is

cultural intelligence. But this one is Jesus according to scripture, restoring the portrait from

the gospel. So Dr. Darrell Elbock, are you there? I am and good day. Yeah, good day to you. Thanks for

returning. And for people who may not have caught the earlier interview that we did, can you talk

all about cultural intelligence and also what led you kind of to write or re-edit this book,

Jesus according to Scripture? Yeah, well, cultural intelligence is a short theology of cultural engagement,

and it really makes the argument that considered biblically the way we have gone about

cultural engagement in the church is not properly biblically aligned,

and as a result we're doing as much damage as we are good in the

effort. And so it's an attempt to explain why that is and to really correct a misdirection that we have,

particularly with regard to the tone of the way we engage and the way in which we look at issues.

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