Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells with Matthew Gallatin

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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In the eyes of many, the modern church in America has become complacent and shallow—more concerned with conforming the church to the culture than the culture to the church. Today’s guest, Matthew Gallatin, joins Hank Hanegraaff to discuss his journey of faith in pursuit of the authentic experience that would quench his thirst for God in a land of shallow wells. To learn more about receiving the resource, Thirsting For God in a Land of Shallow Wells, for your partnering gift, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-thirsting-for-god-in-a-land-of-shallow-wells/

Topics discussed include: Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells (2:00); experiencing Seventh-day Adventism (4:45); how do Seventh-day Adventists rationalize the failed prophesies of Ellen G. White? (12:30); do you know what you believe? (13:50); is there any such thing as a non-denominational church? (18:10); how does Holy Tradition help Christians to rightly understand the Bible and their faith? (25:45); does everyone has a thirst for God? (33:00); is there any place for repetition and ritual in the Christian faith? (36:25); should our daily prayers be spontaneous or formal? (42:00); is it biblical to pray to Mary and other Saints of the Church? (44:20); recognizing the reality and importance of the Theotokos—Mary the Mother of God—to the Christian faith (47:35); viewing iconography as a spiritual reality (53:30); a form of martyrdom—when following the truth leads to losing your livelihood and loved ones (56:00); the correlation between social changes in the culture and in the church (1:08:15); the power of the sign of the cross and other transformational church practices (1:12:10); should we baptize infants? (1:15:45); the demanding nature of the Orthodox life as preparation for eternity (1:22:00).

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0:00.0	And welcome to another edition of the HANK
0:08.0	And welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplug podcast.
0:26.3	This is a podcast that is committed to bringing the most interesting, informative, and
0:31.2	inspirational people directly to your earbuds.
0:34.4	And today we have a special guest that is interesting, informative, and inspirational.
0:42.9	And I invited this particular guest to join me on the podcast because he's going to be talking about his journey.
0:59.2	He's a very interesting individual with a very interesting journey. He is a pastor, a former professor. He's now a podcaster. And he began early on in life with a deep spiritual yearning.
1:17.2	Eventually he became a Seventh-day Adventist.
1:20.9	Then he became a fundamentalist preacher.
1:25.1	He, as I just mentioned, was a professor of philosophy.
1:29.8	Then he became a charismatic.
1:32.5	He dabbled in Roman Catholicism, and ultimately, he went back to when the church was young.
1:40.1	So it's an interesting journey, and in many ways I found parallels in his journey with my journey,
1:48.4	and so I was excited and eager to host him on the Hank Unplugged podcast.
1:53.8	I should also mention that he wrote a book which has an incredibly intriguing title. It's titled Thirsting for God in a Land of
2:05.7	Shallow Wells. That's one of the best titles for a book I've ever come across. And with that,
2:11.5	Matthew Gallatin, I'm delighted to have you on the podcast. Well, Hank, it's delightful to be here, although I find myself in that common situation
2:21.8	of now feeling a little tense about having to live up to that introduction.
2:27.2	Well, I experience that routinely, you know.
2:32.7	I always, you know, when people make a big deal out of me, I
2:35.6	say I'm just a plain old lay person, anything you can do. Maybe I can do, but probably you can do
2:40.6	better. Yeah, well, that's the way I've always felt. And it's, no one's been more amazed at the journey
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