When God Calls You He Equips You with David Hanegraaff

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Have you ever felt like the least qualified person in the room? David Hanegraaff discusses what it is like growing up as the son of the “Bible Answer Man” and how he does his best to say yes to the call of the Lord even when he feels unqualified. David has learned to overcome self-doubt by trusting the Lord and taking those leaps of faith—because when God calls you, he equips you.

Recorded during a talk at the Set Apart retreat for young adults at Gospel for Asia in Wills Point, Texas, this candid presentation by David Hanegraaff offers encouragement for anyone seeking to follow God’s will for their life. Interested in serving with Gospel for Asia? Contact [email protected], and the CRI team will connect you with GFA.

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0:00.0	Today we have the privilege of having David Hanagraph with us, and I'm going to have to introduce him in a different way in the same way that people introduce me when I go to the mission field.
0:34.5	Usually when people introduce me, they talk about my father for about 30 minutes,
0:38.7	and then they say, here's his son. One, that's a very Asian way of introducing people,
0:46.0	because you're always connected to something. You're never an individual. And so they would talk about
0:51.6	how my father, you know, he wrote 300 books.
0:54.6	He's been on the radio for 30 years.
0:56.4	He had like, you know, with all the program, a million responses, on and on and on.
1:00.4	And like, here's his son who is going to share with us.
1:03.5	And so kind of in the same way, David Hanigraph serves with his father.
1:08.1	Hank Hanegraph, some of you would know him.
1:10.6	Most of your parents would know him.
1:12.6	Hank Hanegraph is known as a Bible Answer Man. He's the president of CRA, which is a Christian Research
1:18.6	Institute. When I was in seminary, there was three individuals in the entire world. If any one of
1:25.1	them said anything about the Bible or anything about the Christian faith,
1:28.9	the entire church would say, okay, that's what we believe. One would be John Stott, who went to
1:36.2	be the Lord quite a number of years ago. Another would be Ravi Zacharias, who's an apologist.
1:42.0	And before Ravi Zecharias, he would have Francis Schaefer and C.S. Lewis and a couple of others.
1:46.3	And then Hank Hanegraph, his father.
1:49.2	And when Hank Hanegraph said something, the entire Christian world would stop and listen.
1:55.3	To the point where when Hank Hanegraph journeyed into orthodoxy, the whole world stopped and said,
2:01.7	I think this guy has gone crazy. And people are like, what are you talking about?
2:04.7	The Bible Answer Man has gone crazy? Don't think so.
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