{"id":5947,"date":"2016-07-25T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2016-07-22T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T03:00:53","slug":"interview-with-tom-adams-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/interview-with-tom-adams-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Tom Adams, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a \u00c2\u00a0two-part interview with Tom Adams, DSC’s new Minister to Youth and Families. In Part 1<\/a> we learned a bit about Tom’s background, how he met Gina, and his love for students. Here in Part 2 we’ll learn a bit about the larger influences on Tom’s life, and some other random things as well.<\/p>\n

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You recently completed a Master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary. What role did seminary play in your preparation for your new role at DSC?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seminary played a vital role as it gave me the tools to do deeper Bible study and helped me to learn to be more gracious when I disagree with someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theological viewpoint. I thus strive to present the opposing view in its strongest form before I state the biblical reasons I do not hold to it myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your favorite book of the Bible and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a favorite book, though I come back again and again to Genesis and Revelation, as they are the book-ends of redemptive history, and I find OT and NT narrative to be greatly moving and edifying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What book has had the most impact on your life, besides the Bible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Holiness of God<\/em> by R.C. Sproul. It gave me an abiding joy and reverent fear for God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiness. Furthermore, I praise God that He is the perfect, just judge and look forward to when He will fully, rightly judge all evil, wickedness and injustice, until death itself is destroyed and sin is no more for all those in Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tell us about the most influential sermon you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most influential sermon I have heard was from R.C. Sproul when Gina and I visited the church where he serves in Florida on our honeymoon. He was preaching on the birth of John the Baptist and the evening prior his daughter-in-law had gone to be with the Lord after battling cancer. It was both moving, and honest, yet he preached the word faithfully and with a Joy and peace that only comes from God. The Lord was magnified and praised in the midst of the family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grief and I saw how even then his commitment to expository preaching stood firm, yet the situation was not ignored but God was honoured through it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do you like to spend your down time? Any hobbies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I greatly enjoy watching\/playing football (England and Aston Villa in particular) as well as Cricket. I also like very much to watch classic 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s movies from our youth with Gina. I love listening to and playing music, including alternative rock amongst other genres. I play rhythm electric guitar left-handed and enjoy learning music and singing\/listening to great hymns as well as modern theologically correct and rich sung worship (such as Dustin Kensrue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wonderful record \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Water & the Blood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, now a few left fielders.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>What is the dumbest thing you did as a kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a 14 year old on a Christian missionary camp in England I tried to retrieve the hat of a girl off another young man (who had playfully stole it from her) and so sprinted after him. Unfortunately, the entire camp (100+ youth) was walking down to the beach this particular evening and the dew had settled on the grass beside the country road we were walking down. Beside the road the grass went down a steep hillside for about 50 feet, so at full sprint I run around a group of girls who wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move out of the way though I called them to. As I did so my feet went onto the grass and suddenly I saw both my feet up in the air to my left and I proceeded to fall\/roll down the steep hill gathering speed as I went until I arrived disheveled at the base covered in grass and dirt. At which point I looked up and the whole camp had stopped to enjoy a laugh at my expense. So yeah that was pretty dumb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any odd talents that we should know about up front?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a degree of hyper flexibility in my joints and hyper elasticity in my skin \u00e2\u20ac\u201c don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that is a talent as such (other than at a freak-show I suppose), but there it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your favorite animal, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

British Stag Beetle, because since a child I have been fascinated by insects and how God has made them to do such specific jobs in nature. This one is very rare (only lives as an adult in late summer), is endangered and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never actually seen one in person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Without going to the internet, do you know what a Lobo is? An Isotope? Carne Adovada?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lobo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no idea.<\/p>\n

Isotope \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Whilst I am not a Chemist I think it is a different type of a Chemical element. Yet also here it is the name of your AAA Baseball team who are so named because of a Simpson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode, I believe.<\/p>\n

Carne Adovada \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I think this is a type of spicy (peppers?\/Chilli?) beef.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, for one last question, red or green?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Green<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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