Excerpt From The Interview

“I mean, we’ve always tried to live life with our hands open, right? And ready for whatever opportunities the Lord would bring our way. And there have been these sort of major shifts. The most major of those, of course, leaving Houston and moving to Lusaka. And it was one of those things where I sensed the Lord calling us there eight years before my wife did. I had very little doubt about it other than the fact that the Lord hadn’t really called her. 

I’m a local church guy. I’m a one flesh covenantal marriage guy. And so for me, I’m not the type of guy who’s gonna say, well, the Lord told me, therefore I’m gonna go announce it to my elders and tell my wife and then we’re gonna go, right? I believe God gave me my wife and God gave me my elders for a reason. And so I waited for eight years. And finally, you know, the Lord made that call clear to her and then we went to our elders and put that before them. The Lord made that call clear to them. And it was only then that we left.”

About Voddie Baucham

Voddie Baucham is a husband, father, grandfather, former pastor, church planter, best-selling author, and professor. He was the founding Dean, and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity at the African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.  He is also a founding faculty member if the Institute of Public Theology. 

Voddie is known for his ability to demonstrate the Bible’s relevance to everyday life without compromising the centrality of Christ and the gospel. Those who hear him preach find themselves both challenged and encouraged.

Whether teaching on classical apologetic issues like the validity and historicity of the Bible, or the resurrection of Christ; or teaching on biblical manhood/womanhood, marriage and family, or the Social Justice Movement, he helps ordinary people understand the significance of thinking and living biblically in every area of life.

It is impossible to understand Voddie’s approach to the Bible without first understanding the path he has walked. Raised in a non-Christian, single-parent home, Voddie did not hear the gospel until he was in college. His journey to faith was a very unusual and intellectual one. Consequently, he understands what it means to be a skeptic, and knows what it’s like to try to figure out the Christian life without relying on the traditions of men. As a result, he speaks to ‘outsiders’ in ways few Bible teachers can.

Dr. Baucham holds degrees from Houston Baptist University (BA in Christianity/BA in Sociology), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Min.) with additional post-graduate study at the University of Oxford, England (Regent’s Park College).

Voddie and his wife, Bridget have been married since 1989.  They have nine children and three grandchildren. The Bauchams are committed home educators.  They have lived and served in Lusaka, Zambia since 2015.

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