Synergism and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness with Nathan Jacobs and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, is joined by Nathan Jacobs and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan for the first in a series of wide-ranging roundtable discussions. A professor, artist, author, philosopher, and filmmaker—Nathan Jacobs is Scholar in Residence of Philosophy and Religion in the Religion in the Arts in Contemporary Culture Program based in Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan is the author of dozens of books and the founder/president of GFA World—formerly Gospel for Asia—one of the largest outreach organizations in the world that focuses primarily on the 10-40 window in India and Asia. Metropolitan Yohannan is also the head of Believers Eastern Church. In this final episode of their roundtable discussion series they discuss such topics as: The Great Commission, synergism and the problem of divine hiddenness, reaching the NONES and more. For further information see Hank’s most recent book Truth Matters, Life Matters More, Nathan’s Jacobs Becoming Truly Human 2-disc set: 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray, and Metropolitan Yohannan books, Never Give Up and Revolutions in World Missions. Topics discussed include: Are Christians doing everything possible to fulfill the Great Commission? (0:15); the problem of divine hiddenness (8:10); listening to the religiously unaffiliated in our midst—the NONES (12:15); the importance of seeing our one another as icons of Christ (20:45); how should Christians view persecution of Christians in the West? (25:30).

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1:02.1	I was thinking just as you were speaking about a person that I met by doing a podcast with him on Hank Unplug not long ago, his name is Tristan Osbey.
1:15.3	He's the only government official in the world with aid to persecuted Christians in his title.
1:21.6	He's a state secretary for Hungary.
1:25.0	And here you have a country unabashedly Christian that is rebuilding churches in Iraq that were
1:36.6	destroyed by ISIS, giving aid to the poorest of the poor in the sub-Saharan Africa.
1:50.2	And I'm thinking about all of the possibilities if Christians really take their commission seriously,
2:00.4	the great commission that Christ gave to us, pretty important words, the end of Matthew 28,
2:10.6	the last words, and oh, I'm with you always even to the ends of the earth.
2:14.6	If governments can take that seriously and individuals like I described can take
2:20.7	that seriously and people like you that founded a ministry, GFA world that is literally, maybe
2:27.7	the second largest ministry, maybe the largest mission in the world, I don't know, but very large
2:32.9	doing a tremendous amount of,
2:35.0	I've seen it personally, I know, but it, I guess I'm bringing these examples up for you to
2:45.3	elaborate on because this commission is not an impossible commission.
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