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Peter and Jenny have two special guests this week: Jacob Toman and Michael Mendis from Gospel & Gaming! Gospel & Gaming is, in their own words, “a ministry dedicated to sharing the love and Gospel of Jesus Christ with gamers all over the world.” Jacob and Michael did a great job representing them, explaining their mission in online gaming communities and tabletop gaming communities alike.
We also addressed a question from Patreon backer Jim Nanban, who asked us about the coolest piece of RPG paraphernalia we each own. (As promised, there’s a picture of Peter’s dice bag right here in the show notes.) We also briefly plug our Discord channel, which is continuing to grow as a community. Then everyone settles in to talk about evangelism and how Gospel & Gaming approaches it—even to the point where Michael and Jacob turn the interview around and start asking the hosts questions!
A couple of quick notes about this episode: First, Grant was very sick and missed out on a pair of awesome guests. (He’s better now.) Second, Peter’s audio sounds very bad this episode; there was a hardware problem writing his track to disk that wasn’t apparent during the discussion. And third, as hard as Grant tried we simply could not edit Blarey the Podcast Train out of this episode. That means that this is Blarey’s first official podcast appearance. Enjoy!
Also mentioned in this episode were three books Jacob highly recommended as primers for Gospel & Gaming’s mission: Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church; Jerram Barr’s The Heart of Evangelism; and Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.
Scripture: Psalm 105:1-4, Matthew 13:10-13, Romans 10:11-15
