The Meeting of Minds: My Husband's Journey From Cynical Atheist to Sold Out Believer (Part 2) | Ep. 70

Welcome back to Carry Confetti, a podcast designed to help you better understand the Bible, your brain, and the benefits of hope.

I'm your host, Darci Frost, and I am so glad you're here.

Now, if you've seen the title of this episode, you'll know that it is part two of my husband's journey from being a cynical atheist to a sold out believer.

who now is leading a church in New Zealand.

I lead alongside him.

And he's now devoted his life's work to building the church and converting people to Jesus when he once set out to destroy Christians in arguments because he thought Christians were delusional.

And this is part two of our chat.

So if you missed part one, you really do need to back up to the last episode.

Listen to part one first because we ended up having a chat for about an hour and I just needed to cut it in half to make it to more bite-sized episodes.

And so this is part two of that conversation and you don't want to miss part one because that's where we got to hear a bit more of his background and why he was growing up with the cynicism and with this atheist view in life.

And then what happened as he started to truly engage with Christians, with God and with church.

So if you are here for part two, then sit back, relax, get your coffee or your cup of tea and let's dive in.

So we landed last week's conversation with this idea of letting truth be our main motivator when reading any book, but especially when reading the Bible and when approaching the Bible too often, people make a snap judgment about God or about the Bible before they've ever even read his book.

They'll cherry pick verses way out of context and say, well, if this verse says this, if your God says this, then I don't want to know what else he said.

And I'm like, well, my friend, you have completely missed the context of that verse and what's actually being said.

You've got to read the book if you truly want to understand the author's point of view.

And so, Here we are now picking up from that whole idea of truth being our motivator, truly trying to understand what God is saying, understand his perspective before we make a judgment.

And now we're going to dive into more about how information can lead to transformation.

So we're picking up where I was about to introduce Frosty to another quote from the book that I have loved called How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.

And let's pick up from there.

Welcome back to Carry Confetti, a podcast designed to help you better understand the Bible, your brain, and the benefits of hope.

I'm your host, Darci Frost, and I am so glad you're here.

Now, if you've seen the title of this episode, you'll know that it is part two of my husband's journey from being a cynical atheist to a sold out believer.

who now is leading a church in New Zealand.

I lead alongside him.

And he's now devoted his life's work to building the church and converting people to Jesus when he once set out to destroy Christians in arguments because he thought Christians were delusional.

And this is part two of our chat.

So if you missed part one, you really do need to back up to the last episode.

Listen to part one first because we ended up having a chat for about an hour and I just needed to cut it in half to make it to more bite-sized episodes.

And so this is part two of that conversation and you don't want to miss part one because that's where we got to hear a bit more of his background and why he was growing up with the cynicism and with this atheist view in life.

And then what happened as he started to truly engage with Christians, with God and with church.

So if you are here for part two, then sit back, relax, get your coffee or your cup of tea and let's dive in.

So we landed last week's conversation with this idea of letting truth be our main motivator when reading any book, but especially when reading the Bible and when approaching the Bible too often, people make a snap judgment about God or about the Bible before they've ever even read his book.

They'll cherry pick verses way out of context and say, well, if this verse says this, if your God says this, then I don't want to know what else he said.

And I'm like, well, my friend, you have completely missed the context of that verse and what's actually being said.

You've got to read the book if you truly want to understand the author's point of view.

And so, Here we are now picking up from that whole idea of truth being our motivator, truly trying to understand what God is saying, understand his perspective before we make a judgment.

And now we're going to dive into more about how information can lead to transformation.

So we're picking up where I was about to introduce Frosty to another quote from the book that I have loved called How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.

And let's pick up from there.