R. William Bennett: The 7 People Who Led Me to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

All In

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

From an ophthalmologist to a classmate’s scripture reference in a high school yearbook, and from a nanny’s gift to a Star Valley, Wyoming, information booth employee, R. William Bennett describes his path to finding the gospel of Jesus Christ as a relay race of sorts—a baton that was passed from one person to the next.

“We were driving home, all of us packed in the car, and I was leaning against my mom in the front seat and this thought occurred to me, 'If this is all real, if Jesus really is the Son of God, if being a Christian is that important, there must be more . . . '"

Show Notes:

2:35 - Growing Up
4:50 - Temple Square Tour
5:37 - Learning About the Church
9:43 - The Summer Road Trip
12:28 - Meeting Lori
15:30 - Visiting the Church
21:57 - Contacting the Missionaries
23:45 - Visiting Salt Lake City
27:19 - Fasting
28:56 - The Priesthood
32:51 - Bill’s Family’s Example
35:29 - Finding Those Who Played a Part in Bill’s Conversion
41:45 - How Christ Has Blessed Bill’s Life
43:20 - What Does It Mean To You To Be “All In?”

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0:00.0	Like many of you listening to this podcast, Bill Bennett was not raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:09.0	He was, however, born into a strong Christian home, and when you listen to him speak, it is clear that he has a tremendous amount of gratitude for parents who taught him of a Savior.
0:21.0	However, one Christmas Eve, as he drove home from a church service nestled between his parents with a heart full of joy, he felt a longing for something more.
0:32.0	Our William Bennett grew up on the Jersey Shore and in Connecticut. He previously worked as a consultant and division president for Franklin Covey and is now the CEO of Inside Out Development.
0:47.0	He is the author of the best-selling Christmas novel, Jacob T. Marley, and this year releases his new Christmas book, The Last Man at the End.
0:56.0	In both instances, Bennett demonstrates a tremendous ability to get inside the head of characters we've heard of, but no little about.
1:05.0	As an author, Bennett imagines what they must have been going through, what led to their actions, and ultimately leads us to ponder what we can learn from them.
1:17.0	This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
1:25.0	I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to have Bill Bennett here with me today. Bill, welcome.
1:31.0	Thank you.
1:32.0	Well, I, so I'm going to give listeners a little bit of background on how this episode came to be.
1:37.0	Bill and I were having a conversation about his upcoming book, which you'll find him in Desiret book as our William Bennett, not Bill, just FYI.
1:47.0	So we were having this conversation about his book and Bill started to tell me his conversion story to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1:56.0	And as he talked, I just thought, this is a podcast episode and in of itself.
2:03.0	So here we are and Bill has been kind enough to go along with this crazy idea that I have to talk to focus today on his conversion.
2:12.0	So thank you for being willing to do that.
2:14.0	It's my pleasure.
2:15.0	It's always an honor to be able to talk about it.
2:18.0	So Bill, you told me that you first came in contact with the Church.
2:23.0	Well, you first kind of started this search for truth for the Gospel as a young boy.
2:31.0	Can you kind of start there and tell us a little bit about how that started?
2:36.0	Sure. Sure.
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