CNLP 711 | A Masterclass on the New Apologetics: Breaking Down What Wesley Huff Got Right with Joe Rogan and Billy Carson
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Christian Apologist Wesley Huff recently debated Billy Carson, which led to an appearance on the Joe Rogan Show. In both cases, Wes demonstrated a powerful approach to apologetics.
In this episode, Carey outlines four best practices Wes embodied and offers five takeaways for every leader looking to engage the culture in conversations about Christianity.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. On the Rogan show, he never corrected Joe Rogan's language or style. |
| 0:07.8 | If you know Joe Rogan for more than five minutes, you know he's going to drop F bombs and that kind of thing. |
| 0:12.4 | And he did during the episode, and Wes didn't blink. He didn't correct him. He didn't chide him. |
| 0:18.4 | He didn't make him feel like he was more superior because he |
| 0:22.1 | wasn't dropping F bombs. And he just respected where Joe was at and he respected his knowledge. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the Keri Newhoff Leadership Podcast. Hey, I'm so glad you joined us today. I hope our time together helps you thrive in life and leadership. Well, you know, everything's changing. We're in a very rapidly changing cultural moment. And today, I wanted to take some time giving you my take on what's happening in apologetics. And I think we got an absolute masterclass on how to do it |
| 0:55.3 | right. Sometimes, you know, we're great at criticizing in the church. Sometimes you have to break |
| 0:59.8 | down when something worked. Today, I'm going to go into how West Huff performed when he debated |
| 1:07.0 | Billy Carson and then appeared on the Joe Rogan episode. I'm going to talk about that, |
| 1:11.7 | and I think he did so many things well, things that you and I can learn from. I hope it's really |
| 1:16.7 | going to help you preach better, and I hope it's going to help you share your faith personally |
| 1:20.5 | a whole lot better as a result of the time we spend together today. Hey, by the way, we've got a great |
| 1:26.2 | YouTube presence as well. |
| 1:28.2 | And this week alone, I'm giving away a copy of my book at your best to five lucky winners. |
| 1:34.4 | So to enter the giveaway, after you've listened to this episode, you can find it on |
| 1:38.5 | YouTube, leave a comment saying, I'm ready to live at my best and you may be one of the |
| 1:43.4 | winners. All right. So culture is |
| 1:45.8 | changing fast and I believe our apologetics needs to change with it. So West Huff, by the way, if |
| 1:52.8 | you've been living under a rock, I got so many texts on this, debated Billy Carson and did a |
| 1:58.3 | very good job, so much so that it got Joe Rogan's attention. |
| 2:02.4 | And Joe Rogan invited him on the podcast. And I think what West did in both occasions got |
| 2:08.8 | so much of what the future of apologetics is supposed to be about. He got that right. So I'm going to |
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