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Dr. Leighton Flowers welcomes one of his theological heroes of the faith, Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, to discuss his new book titled, "Theology for Every Person."
To order a copy of Dr. Yarnell's new book, click here: https://a.co/d/3xz4wp5
To hear Dr. Yarnell preach on Romans 9, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOUkUeWSogc
Malcolm Yarnell serves the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention as Research Professor of Theology at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as Managing Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology, and as a Member of the SBC Resolutions Committee. He also serves the Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas as Teaching Pastor and is a Member of the Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity with the Baptist World Alliance. To learn more about Dr. Yarnell, go to: https://www.malcolmyarnell.com/
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Knowing, loving, and worshiping God is the call and privilege of every disciple of Jesus. Because all Christians are part of his royal priesthood, theology is not just for those teaching in the academy or serving in ministry vocations.
Theologian and author, Malcolm B. Yarnell, writes in his new book, God (B&H Publishing Group, March 5), “The first theologian to argue that the Bible should be in every person’s language also argued theology is not merely for professional scholars. I agree with Erasmus of Rotterdam: Scripture is for everyone, so theology is for everyone.”
Theology proper centers on God, exploring his existence, his divine nature, his Persons, and his attributes. In God, Yarnell shares an overview of these truths in the doctrine of God as well as other great truths in the doctrine of divine revelation.
“You are not simply setting out on a journey toward deeper knowledge,” says Yarnell. “If theological study only results in knowing abstract truths about God, then we have not done theology well. Right theology invariably leads to right living and right worship, and this is our ultimate goal in these books and in this life.”
God is the first volume of a three-part series entitled Theology for Every Person. The other volumes will include God’s Word to the World, which considers God in Christ and his works of creation, humanity, and redemption, and God’s Work in the World, which explores God the Holy Spirit and the divine works of salvation, the church, and the end.
“This series is intended to help equip every Christian with their God-given call to serve God as a theologian,” writes Yarnell. “In other words, it is for you as a follower of Christ Jesus, whatever the other roles you fulfill in life.”
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sociology 101. As you can see, we have a guest with us today. This is one of my |
0:15.7 | heroes of the faith. And any of you who are theology geeks, he should become one of your |
0:20.7 | heroes of the faith. |
0:22.6 | And I think you'll see why, as we get into this interview, this is Dr. Malcolm Yarnel. |
0:27.3 | He serves the churches of Southern Baptist Convention as a research professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, my alma mater. |
0:34.1 | He's also the managing editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology. |
0:39.0 | And as a member of the SBC Resolutions Committee, he also serves a Lakeside Baptist Church in |
0:43.0 | Granbury, Texas as a teaching pastor. |
0:45.4 | In other words, he is a smart and very busy man, but he has taken time to be with us today. |
0:50.6 | So welcome Dr. Yonnell to the program. |
0:53.0 | Thank you for having me, Leighton. I've long followed |
0:56.0 | and appreciated your ministry very much. Thank you for doing what you do in service to the churches |
1:01.4 | of Jesus Christ. Well, I appreciate that. And I appreciated what you have done and what you continue |
1:08.3 | to do. I always talk about how I feel, even though I have |
1:13.2 | a doctorate and I do this for a living, I feel myself not as a scholar or an academic myself |
1:21.1 | working more in the churches in the denominational world. And so oftentimes I see myself more as a |
1:25.6 | popularizer of the academics. |
1:28.0 | And you are one of those that I like to let people know about. |
1:31.6 | And we were talking beforehand, and I mentioned this, and I want to mention it to all of my listeners who are tuning in right now. |
1:38.2 | If you have not watched Dr. Yarnel's sermon on Romans chapter 9, I put a link in the show notes just now. And so I would |
1:46.5 | really encourage you to go watch that. And I was talking to Dr. Yarnel about the possibility of |
1:52.1 | publishing something on that as well, because that is just some really good work. And I know Dr. Yarnel, |
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