Nate Sala’s Journey from Doubt to Pastor — Faith, Supernatural Encounter, and Debates

Nate Sala is a Pastor and debate teacher as well as founder of his ministry Wise Disciple. Wise Disciple began with Nate on an old PC in a small corner of his living room. Nate was teaching his local youth group about how to properly engage arguments against Christianity. He created the website for his church to go deeper into each of those early lessons. Today, Nate is equipping thousands of Christians to live like Christ, have confidence in their faith, and to communicate why Christianity is true. Nate posts weekly videos to his YouTube fanbase of over 300,000 subscribers.

00:00 introduction

00:20 Nate’s testimony

3:10 Supernatural moment with God & Death

5:30 Becoming a pastor

7:30 Freewill vs Predeterminism

9:24 The Jewishness of Jesus and The New Testament

11:00 The Prodigal Son

12:35 Ecclesiastes and Job

13:47 Getting into Debate

17:40 a Good Debater vs a Great Debater

20:15 What Debate Competitions are like

23:45 Alex O’Connor vs David Wood

26:30 Public Speaking Fears

28:40 Nate’s opinion of debates

32:20 William Lane Craig vs Shelly Kagan

33:48 Mount Rushmore of Christian Debaters

35:00 Gavin Ortlund

36:36 Alex O’Connor and Jacob

39:08 Best Atheist Debaters

45:14 Wise Disciple

51:45 The future of Christianity

53:38 Aliens