A Champion Goes Home

Dave Hunt 1926-2013

"Well done, good and faithful servant!"--Matthew 25:21

As a modern Christian apologist, Dave Hunt wasn't one of the best. Rather, he was simply the best and there wasn't anyone who was close to him.

Who was Dave Hunt? He was a Christian author, speaker, evangelist, cult researcher and co-founder with T.A. McMahon of The Berean Call, a Christian ministry dedicated to preaching the true biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world while debunking religious heresies and dangerous secular myths.

To say that Hunt's books were good would be an understatement. They were magnificent; well-organized, flawlessly researched and written in such a way that even a dummy such as me could easily digest the material. 

He wrote all his books that way and he poured his heart, soul and passion into the material. I'm someone who generally has a hard time staying with a book from cover to cover, but with Dave Hunt's books, I never had that problem. His books were not only riveting, they were literal gold mines of resource material from which to draw upon. 

Two of my favorite Dave Hunt books were Occult Invasion and Cosmos Creator and Human Destiny. Occult Invasion, which was originally published in 1998, was an eye-opening book that detailed the extensive pagan-occult practices that were being embraced and promoted by many Christian churches. As always, Hunt offered a plethora of verifiable evidence to support his arguments. 

And in Cosmos Creator and Human Destiny, published in 2010, Hunt presented volumes of scientific evidence to destroy the formidable, atheistic idol of evolution. In my opinion, Cosmos Creator and Human Destiny is the most powerful book I have ever read that debunks evolution via empirical scientific evidence. It's an outstanding witnessing tool for those who are confused about how the existence of life and the physical universe came about. If you still choose to believe in evolution after you've read this book, then your heart is unchangeable and beyond redemption.

Dave Hunt didn't write books for money. Few authors make any decent money writing books unless they sell a lot of them. While Hunt's books have sold very well--approximately four million copies--he never wrote books for money or fame. He wrote them to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to counter falsehood with biblical truth.  

Dave Hunt was also a gifted speaker. I had the good fortune to hear him speak about 14 years ago at a church located on Chicago's Northwest Side. And he didn't disappoint. He was well-spoken, well-prepared, charming and witty. As always, he brought a mountain of research material with him to support the topics that he spoke on. 

I'm sure that if he was still alive, Dave Hunt would deflect the praise and reason that he was only doing his job as a humble servant of Jesus Christ. And he served Christ admirably for many years. As a modern apostle of Jesus Christ, Hunt traveled all over the world with the same basic message: that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior who died for all sinners on Calvary's Cross 2,000 years ago. And that whoever truly confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior by faith has passed from eternal death unto eternal life.

I'm going to miss Dave Hunt. He was a literal modern day David who wasn't afraid to take on the Goliaths of Roman Catholicism, phony faith healers, prosperity preachers, ecumenical sellouts, humanist psychology, Islamists, cults and the purveyors of pseudo-science. 

He took a lot of grief for that. He was maligned, mocked, ridiculed, marginalized and threatened. But he understood that persecution came with the territory he traveled in. And he also knew that Jesus Christ always had his back no matter who the opposition was.

God bless you Dave. You're going to be missed.