I'm Warren Smith and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Trevin Wax.

His new book is The Thrill of Orthodoxy, rediscovering the adventure of Christian faith.

We have something beautiful.

It's a treasure that's been given to us.

It's been passed down to us and we do have all of these resources and we go back and

explore these resources from the past so that we can meet the challenges of today.

If you're a regular here at Listening In, you know that it's rare for me to have the

same guest on the program twice.

And three times?

Well, that's rareer still.

In fact, I can count the number of people who have been on the program three times, probably

on one hand.

Trevin Wax is now a member of that small community because he continues to produce excellent

work about important topics.

His latest book is one that I think is destined to become a Christian classic.

Trevin Wax says that the way forward for the evangelical church is to look back to the

ancient creeds and confessions.

We need to know what they believed but also how they engaged controversies of their day.

We need to learn that some of the questions we're facing in our own time are not new.

They've been asked before and they've been answered brilliantly by some of the great

fielotions of the Christian tradition.

To have great answers to pressing cultural questions today, we need to know how they

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