But what does the Catholic Church teach about God’s Word?

Matt Swaim, Ken Hensley and Kenny Burchard begin a new series unpacking Dei Verbum, the Catholic Church’s official document on Divine Revelation from the Second Vatican Council. They begin by looking at the historical climate leading up to the council in the early 1960’s, and how that provided a new opportunity for the Church to re-articulate its understanding of how God speaks to His people.

As former Evangelical pastors, Ken and Kenny share how reflecting on this period in Catholic history has helped them to better appreciate what the Church has to say about the Bible and the nature of divine revelation.

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Is it possible to read and interpret the Bible objectively?

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Kenny Burchard joins Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley to share the story of how he finally ended up becoming Catholic.

Having left Pentecostal ministry, Kenny ended up looking at a few possible church environments that he thought he and his family might be able to call home.

But at the end of all of it, he found that God was calling them to the last place he ever expected: the Catholic Church.

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Kenny shares the series of experiences and the process of discernment that led him to step away from ministry as a pastor in the Foursquare Church.

He discusses three watershed moments that led him to believe that whatever God had in store for him, it was somewhere besides a Pentecostal pulpit.

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When Kenny, who had been a Pentecostal pastor, told some friends he was considering becoming Catholic, he was asked why he’d want to join a church that had gone through so many scandals.

For Kenny, this was a question that hit close to home, because every Christian group he’d ever been involved with had gone through scandal after scandal, and split after split. And given his experience of those heartbreaking realities, especially as a former Protestant pastor, it was something he had absolutely thought about when considering the Catholic Church.

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As Kenny discovered more and more divisions among Christians, he became increasingly unsettled by them. He and his wife got into ministry together in the Pentecostal world, but their experience of everything from Christian radio to Christian bookstores and more overloaded them — was it even possible to know which take on Christianity was the correct one? Could there ever truly be Christian unity?

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As Kenny tried to find his way in his new life as a Christian, the question of where he fit among fellow believers became front and center.

He started to realize that there were lots of different interpretations of Scripture, and lots of different potential voices to follow. He began to wonder: with all the options out there, what kind of Christian was he?

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At the end of the last episode, Kenny was a brand new, “born-again” Christian. He shares how in that first year that followed, his zeal overflowed in ways that ended up damaging relationships.

He was passionate about his newfound faith, but without mentors to help show him how to live it, Kenny found himself in constant debates and conflicts over matters of religion.

Kenny shares a window into what that first year as a new Christian was like, and the lessons he’s learned from reflecting on it over time.

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Kenny starts at the very beginning: from being given up for adoption by Catholic parents, to being adopted by parents who didn’t practice religion at all, to growing up around Mormons in Utah and eventually having a “born again” experience in the 1980’s that changed everything for him.

It’s a great story, and we look forward to sharing more chapters from it over the next few weeks!

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What did they think about the word “apostolic?”

Matt, Ken, and Kenny discuss what kinds of things came to mind for them in regard to the word “apostolic,” and what they thought, and currently think, about the mandate for Christians to carry on the apostolic mission of Jesus.

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