Welcome to a special edition of Real Christianity. I'm your host, Dale Partridge, and over the past several months, I've had the privilege of interviewing 12 of the top theologians of our time.

We discuss everything from apologetics and church history to the biblical family and standing firm on sound doctrine.

The objective of this series was to strengthen the theology of listeners and give them the tools they need to boldly proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

So listen up, focus in, and prepare your mind for volume 1 of the Theologian series.

In this episode of the Theologian series, I interview Dr. Tom Askel of Founder's Ministries on how to overcome the fear of man.

Tom is the author of several books and has served as the pastor of Grace Baptist Church since 1986.

His ministry at Founders.org has become a robust hub of trusted theological content, podcasts, articles, and videos.

And in this interview, Dr. Askel and I are going to be discussing an issue that confronts all Christians, the fear of man.

Today, more than ever, Christians are compromising with the culture and watering down the truth for fear of being hated, politically persecuted, or even canceled.

In this episode, Tom offers Christians practical advice for remaining bold and a society that is becoming increasingly more hostile toward biblical Christianity.

So guys, grab your Bible and sharpen your pencil because it's time to tune in to another powerful episode of The Theologian series.

1. Welcome to the show, Dr. Tom Askel.

Well, thank you very much. I'm delighted to be with you, Dale.

Hey, excited to have a discussion about boldness, proclamation of the gospel, things that are happening in the culture today.

There are so much changes that are going on just in the last year.

And I've always said that the church is always better on the defense in terms of the purity.

And we always get lazy and spiritually, you know, spiritually fat when we're on the offense for especially decades at a time.

Excited to have your perspective on this, Tom.

And we'll talk at the end here to give you some more information about Tom's ministries and the things that he's been doing.

Many of you, I'm sure have already heard of Tom and his work at founders.org.

But we're going to dive right in. So Tom, the Western church is entering into an era of increased hostility towards Christians and biblical values.

We're seeing it everywhere.

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