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Itinerant Apologist, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
Associate Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University
Stuart McAllister
Born in Scotland, Stuart McAllister saw his life changed by Christ at the early age of twenty. Filled with a hunger to learn more about and preach the Gospel, he took every opportunity to witness and give his testimony. This desire to serve the Lord and deepen his understanding of the faith led him to join Operation Mobilisation in 1978. His service with OM took him to Yugoslavia, where he was imprisoned for 40 days for distributing Christian literature. Upon his release, he continued his mission to preach the Gospel in communist countries, resulting in more imprisonments.
With a rich history of service, Stuart has served as general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, and been involved with the European Lausanne Committee. He also developed an evangelistic mobilization called “Love Europe,” sending several thousand team members across Europe with the message of the Gospel. Stuart also founded the European Roundtable, bringing together a diverse group of ministries and interests that collaborated to foster “Hope for Europe.”
Stuart joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1998 as the International Director and today serves as the Vice-President for Training and Special Projects. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches and other forums with the same passion for the Gospel that he found when he first became a believer. While currently an Associate Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) Stuart has also been a lecturer at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, in addition to being a featured speaker at this year’s European Leadership Forum.
Stuart is a frequent contributor to A Slice of Infinity, RZIM’s daily reading on issues of apologetics and philosophy, as well as Just Thinking, the ministry’s tri-annual journal. He has also published articles in the books Beyond Opinion (2007, Thomas Nelson Publishing) and Global Missiology for the 21st Century (2000, World Evangelical Fellowship).
With a rich history of service, Stuart has served as general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, and been involved with the European Lausanne Committee. He also developed an evangelistic mobilization called “Love Europe,” sending several thousand team members across Europe with the message of the Gospel. Stuart also founded the European Roundtable, bringing together a diverse group of ministries and interests that collaborated to foster “Hope for Europe.”
Stuart joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1998 as the International Director and today serves as the Vice-President for Training and Special Projects. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches and other forums with the same passion for the Gospel that he found when he first became a believer. While currently an Associate Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) Stuart has also been a lecturer at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, in addition to being a featured speaker at this year’s European Leadership Forum.
Stuart is a frequent contributor to A Slice of Infinity, RZIM’s daily reading on issues of apologetics and philosophy, as well as Just Thinking, the ministry’s tri-annual journal. He has also published articles in the books Beyond Opinion (2007, Thomas Nelson Publishing) and Global Missiology for the 21st Century (2000, World Evangelical Fellowship).
Former President, Southern Baptist Convention
Host of Touching Lives
Dr. James Merritt
Dr. James Merritt is the host of Touching Lives international broadcast ministries. He is also the founder and Senior Pastor of Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Georgia. His greatest passion, and the call of his heart, is leading men, women, boys and girls around the world to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Saved at the age of nine and accepting God’s call to preach at twenty-one, Dr. Merritt earned an undergraduate degree from Stetson University and his Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
He has pastored churches in Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia and is also a popular speaker and the author of several books.
From 2000-2002, Dr. Merritt served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, as well as serving in other key denominational positions.
He has also been featured on numerous television programs including Hannity and Colmes, Scarborough Country and 60 Minutes.
Best known for his uncompromising commitment to preaching the word of God, and a preaching style characterized by a clear, concise explanation of scripture with a down-to-earth delivery, Dr. Merritt is one of the most recognized and popular preachers/teachers of the 21st century.
Saved at the age of nine and accepting God’s call to preach at twenty-one, Dr. Merritt earned an undergraduate degree from Stetson University and his Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
He has pastored churches in Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia and is also a popular speaker and the author of several books.
From 2000-2002, Dr. Merritt served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, as well as serving in other key denominational positions.
He has also been featured on numerous television programs including Hannity and Colmes, Scarborough Country and 60 Minutes.
Best known for his uncompromising commitment to preaching the word of God, and a preaching style characterized by a clear, concise explanation of scripture with a down-to-earth delivery, Dr. Merritt is one of the most recognized and popular preachers/teachers of the 21st century.
Award Winning Author
Distinguished Professor & Speaker
Dr. Robert Smith, Jr
Dr. Robert Smith is professor of preaching at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. He has spoken at more than 45 universities, colleges and seminaries in the United States, Great Britain and the Caribbean. A popular teacher and preacher, he received Southern’s 1996 Findley B. Edge Award for Teaching Excellence. He has written the book, Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville: 2007), which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Preaching Magazine and 2009 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Christianity Today’s Preaching Today.Com.
President, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Christian Apologist & Leading Expert on Mormonism
Dr. Phil Roberts
Dr. Phil Roberts is the President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He has served as a Pastor internationally in England, Belgium, Germany as well as churches in the United States. He has appeared on PBS’s “Online Newshour” with Jim Lehrer as well as “Talk of the Nation” on National Public Radio. He has been a contributor or co-author of six books including “Mormonism Unmasked”.
Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. from Free University of Amsterdam, conducted post-graduate research at Oxford University, received the M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the B.A. from Georgetown College.
Dr. Roberts is also a member of the International Society of Christian Apologetics.
Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. from Free University of Amsterdam, conducted post-graduate research at Oxford University, received the M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the B.A. from Georgetown College.
Dr. Roberts is also a member of the International Society of Christian Apologetics.