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I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

I haven't done this in a while where I've actually just played an interview I did,

but this interview I thought came out so well in the sense of the kinds of questions I got

in the second half of the interview that I hope is as helpful to you as well.

This is really a weekly thing they do where they

kind of do and ask the expert, and we were the last hour of this show for this particular week.

And I've done interviews with Carl before. He's super animated, knows a lot about Christian

apologetics, is really interested in Christian apologetics. But a lot of his callers are just regular folks who are like, hey, how do I, I need to be better

at this. How do I get better at it? So I'm hoping that this conversation, well, number one,

I hope model how you might quickly, if you only got 30 seconds to a minute to answer a question,

even the questions that Carl asked in the beginning.

Hopefully that will model that for you. So here's my interview from this morning, actually,

with Carl and Crew. It's Carl and Crew. We are in our final hour of Ask the Experts.

Got Jay Warner Wallace here. How you doing, Jay Warner? Doing well. This is the last hour. Wow.

I feel like this is... You're capping it. You're capping it. And yeah, we are really honored to have you with us here.

All right, my man. Let's build some context. Give us your story. You were out there far from God, weren't you?

Yeah, and I was not really interested. I didn't have anybody

in my family who were Christians. And I, and I think it was, sadly, I hate to admit this,

but the people I knew that were Christians at my job as a detective were interestingly not

evidential about their Christian views. Well, of course, our job requires us to be evidential about everything else. So these are guys who can make a case for so many different bad guys we were trying to catch. Yet, but if you asked them, well, can you make a case for this? They seem like that even the idea seemed foreign. Like, this is not something they would need to make a case for. And I was somebody who said, look, if you can't make a case for it, that I'm not interested, right? That's silly. Why do you think that was? And so I would often mock those guys. Why do you think that was? Why did they not see the congruency of their faith with their cold case detective work? Well, I think a lot of it is, if you look at scripture, there's, and I see this all around the country that if you ask people, why are you a Christian? The top three answers you're going to get are number one. I was raised as a Christian. My family are Christians. My parents were Christians. That's the most popular answer you're going to get. Number two is going to be something along the lines of.

I had an experience, and that experience confirmed for me this is true.

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