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Speaker 3: Hey guys, welcome to the show today. I have a

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Speaker 3: very special guest, Dr. John Lennox, and he's coming to

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Speaker 3: us from Oxford. He is an emeritus mathematics professor from Oxford.

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Speaker 3: And I discovered him years ago when I started watching

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Speaker 3: his debates, his public debates with the new atheists, like

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Speaker 3: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and others, which we'll get into.

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Speaker 1: And he's written a.

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Speaker 3: New book called My Story, and it's an autobiography. And

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Speaker 3: It's stunning. When I read this, he basically was a

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Speaker 3: full-time missionary and a full-time mathematics professor at Oxford. So

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Speaker 3: I am excited to get into his story. It's fascinating.

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Speaker 3: Some of the things he did in the former Soviet

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Speaker 3: Union and the spies were spying on him. And there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of amazing intrigue in this book.

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Speaker 1: But first, a word from our sponsor. Please welcome Dr.

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Speaker 1: John Lennox.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: It's so good to have you on. Your book, My Story,

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Speaker 3: is incredible. I had no idea that you were basically

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Speaker 3: a full-time missionary and a full-time mathematics professor.

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Speaker 1: You've had quite a life. God used you in incredible ways.

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Speaker 3: In the introduction of this book, you say that this

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Speaker 3: is a book that for many years I refused to write.

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Speaker 4: Why now? Well, because autobiography contains the word auto, which

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Speaker 4: means self. And although over the years many people have

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Speaker 4: encouraged me to write my story, I've felt reluctant until

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Speaker 4: I was reading the book of Acts where Paul came back,

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Speaker 4: I think, to Antioch. And it says, Luke says, that Paul...

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Speaker 4: told them what the Lord had done with him. And

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Speaker 4: it suddenly struck me that if Paul could share for

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Speaker 4: the encouragement of Christians in the first century what he

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Speaker 4: believed the Lord had done with him, then surely I

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Speaker 4: something seriously. And you're holding in your hand the results.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it's wonderful. And you were born, you grew

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Speaker 3: up in Northern Ireland. I think both of your parents

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Speaker 3: were Christians. What was that like growing up there with

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Speaker 3: your amazing parents?

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Speaker 1: And when did Christianity become your own faith?

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Speaker 4: When you're looking back, I'm 82 now, that distance in time,

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Speaker 4: It's very hard to precise time of when things happen,

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Speaker 4: but my parents were credible Christianity, so my first encounter

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Speaker 4: with Christianity was seeing them live according to what they believed.

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Speaker 4: They taught scripture in the home, but they loved me

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Speaker 4: I'd been very clearly taught that one is born a

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Speaker 3: Yes, and who was David Gooding and what impact did

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Speaker 3: And a man called Wilfred Hutchings was instrumental in helping

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Speaker 4: That's right. He was the headmaster of my school. Very

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Speaker 3: And during this time, is this when you learned German

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Speaker 4: know that Jesus died on a cross. And I said,

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Speaker 4: And that raises the question, what is God doing on

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Speaker 4: but has become part of it. And at that point,

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Speaker 4: she started to weep and said, why has no one

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Speaker 4: told me that about my Messiah before? That was a

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Speaker 4: very moving moment. And it's the suffering of the cross

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's leave it there. And people can get the book,

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Speaker 3: My Story. Thank you, Dr. Lennox, for coming on the

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Speaker 3: show and sharing this. This is a wonderful book, and

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Speaker 3: I highly commend it.

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Speaker 1: So thank you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Bye-bye.

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