Conversation With Carl Lentz (EP 79)

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Who is Carl Lentz and why is he a special guest?

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, a very special guest. I'm super excited about this episode. Got Pastor Carl Lentz with us today. How are you doing?

Carl Lentz 0:11

So excited to be here, bro. Let's go. You're awesome. It's so cool just to even be around people that are as genuine and faith-filled as you because, unfortunately, it feels like it's kind of rare. So just to be able to see you from far and meet you, man, it's already really encouraging. Can you cover up your tattoos before we finish? Because I don't feel like God can move in an environment with visible tattoos.

0:36

Really?

Carl Lentz 0:36

No, I'm joking. Even the dog knew I was joking. He was barking. You looked at me so sincerely like, oh, my gosh. Amazing, amazing work. I love it.

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Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you're here. I'm super excited. I want to like, well, first, I want to talk about your story, but I don't want that to be the highlight of the podcast because I feel like. And I just want to hear from your perspective because there's so much stuff out there. But I don't want that to be the main point because I feel like it's everything that people always ask you. And there's more to you than that. You know, like, like, yeah, it's like, I don't know. When I look in today's society, I feel like just with anything in general, when Jesus says, I love your neighbor as yourself. Nowadays, across the board, I feel like I'm always asking, where's our neighbor? Like, we just never care about our neighbor. We never love them. We just can't look past the things that

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that people have done. And then like, even, even before that, like I'm reading scripture this morning and Luke six, and he's like, he's talking like, yeah, like, you know, you guys want to return evil for evil. You guys want to judge people. And with that, when you got a log in your own eye and I'm just like, man, what are we doing? Like, there's more to us than just the faults we've done. Like if people looked at me for everything I'd done wrong, then I don't know. Like I wouldn't be sitting here, you know, but I think there's a lot of cool. I've been so encouraged by you for years. I've been listening to you for a long time. I became a Christian when I was 17. And when I was 17, I was listening to a lot of you. I was listening to I read this book.

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I remember when I first became a Christian, I read this book called Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. I became a Christian on Christmas Day. And then I listened to some sermons that you preach that whole song. And I listened to, um, I'm forgetting last name right now. I'm blanking right now. Who was I listening to?

Carl Lentz 2:27

Throw out some names. Um, TD Jake's.

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TJ's no I wasn't listening Francis Chan Francis Chan I was gonna go like with the spectrum so yeah there's like so many different um John Piper just kidding but I was listening to you Francis Chan and reading the same book systematic theology I was super encouraged um but I want to go back to like when you were we I heard a little bit of your story but where'd you grow up yeah did you grow up in the church have you been how long have you been a Christian following the Lord

Carl Lentz 2:56

Yeah, I feel like I've been a Christian as long as I can remember in that my family is amazing. So my mom and dad live in Virginia Beach where I was kind of born and raised. And Virginia Beach, Virginia, shout out to everybody on the East Coast. And my parents, they really love Jesus. So over the years, you know, my journey looked like trying to figure out my place in church. We went to a church when I was in high school that I didn't connect with. And that kind of began my my journey of trying to figure it out for myself. And so high school wasn't really a time where I was, I think, following Jesus like I know is possible. And I always knew that, too. I always was conflicted. And then I ended up going to college at North Carolina State in Raleigh, North Carolina, play basketball there and. I loved it. I had achieved and realized a dream that was way out of my depth. Like I was not good enough to be there, but I worked really hard and teams always can use that. So I was able to find myself in a position where my eyes opened. And in that moment in college,