10 Questions Professor and author Bruce Ware discusses family, theology, and challenges we’ll be facing in the next 20 years
Listen, listen, listen!!! Well, this re- for Young Hearts (Crossway)? flects one of the greatest failures and My parents and grandparents (who weaknesses in my own relationshi- For a number of years, when our two lived nearby) were committed Chris- with Jodi. I love my wife dearly, but I daughters were young, I spent time at their bedsides at night taking them tians. I learned at a young age of my through different teachings of the sin and the reality of divine judgChristian faith. I recall those years ment, and I learned the good news with such joy. I would always start that Jesus had taken my sin and paid with a key verse of Scripture, and its penalty on the cross. At six years then we would unpack some doctriof age, I asked my grandmother to nal truth bit by bit over several nights. help me pray to trust in Christ for the Well, many years later, Bethany and forgiveness of my sin, and she did. I Rachel urged me to write up these was baptized shortly thereafter. I’ve “lessons” that we had gone through, never seriously doubted the reality of and eventually I did, and Crossway my conversion at that young age. I kindly published this as “Big Truths am quite confident this was the work for Young Hearts.” of the Spirit in my young heart. How did you become a Christian?
What do you and your wife Jodi like to do for fun? We love travelling, sight-seeing, hiking, and reading together. We also both love music, both playing and singing together as well as listening to need to show this love in ways she can wonderful classical, jazz, and Chris- feel and experience my love, and one of the most important ways for my tian music. wife is by careful, attentive, engaged, What advice would you give to and responsive listening. husbands as they seek to love their How did your relationship with your wives? daughters bring about Big Truths 8 | Credo Magazine | October 2011
What was your dissertation topic at Fuller Seminary and why did you choose it? I wrote an evangelical reappraisal of the immutability of God. My wife, Jodi, suggested this topic to me, and I nearly dismissed it. “What’s to write on here?” I said! Tom Schreiner (in the program also at Fuller) said I should check this out. I did, and was shocked to see how much was being written on divine immutability – mostly from RC and Process theolo-