Andrew Sach is a contemporary evangelical Christian pastor, speaker and author. He is an ordained Church of England minister and holds a doctorate in neuroscience. He has written several Christian books and is a regular speaker at Word Alive and other conferences. As an 18-year-old Sach was an atheist and viewed Christians as "naive, superstitious and ignorant". Whilst reading Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at St John's College,

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, Sach was contacted by the Christian Union who challenged him to think about whether or not the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a historical fact or not. He eventually concluded that it was, and became a Christian. After his degree, Sach worked as an apprentice for a year at the church of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge. Sach then did a doctorate in neuroscience at the

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. He published three scientific papers on auditory spatial attention. He then worked for

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in London for three years. Whilst there he studied part-time at the

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. From there went to

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(with a six-month exchange to

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, Sydney) to train for ordination in the

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. He then worked as a curate at St Helens for several years, leading the 6pm and then the 10:30am congregations. Sach is currently a minister at Grace Church Greenwich and a tutor on the Cornhill Training Course. Sach has co-authored a number of books on biblical exegesis in the "Dig Deeper" series. He authored a booklet titled "Has Science Disproved God?" published by UCCF, which aimed to "explain why I think it is reasonable to believe in God in the face of science". Sach opposes Neo-Darwinian

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viewing it at variance with the first books of the Bible. Sach, however, challenges the notion that the Hebrew word "Yom" (

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: יום) in the creation account, according to

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, refers to a literal day (24 hours), therefore denying that creation occurred in a period of six days (6 x 24 hours). Rather, Sach proposes that the Genesis creation account is a poetic way of speaking about the careful ordered way in which God made the universe.Dig Deeper: Tools for Understanding God's Word .105/ref>

Book Titles

* ''Dig Deeper: Tools to Unearth the Bible's Treasure'' (IVP, 2005) (co-authored with Steve Jeffery) * ''Pierced for Our Transgressions'' (IVP, 2007) (co-authored with Dr Steve Jeffery and Dr Mike Ovey) * ''Dig Even Deeper: Unearthing Old Testament Treasure'' (IVP, 2010) (co-authored with Richard Alldritt) * ''The Cross'' (10Publishing, 2012) (co-authored with Steve Jeffery)) * ''Dig Deeper into the Gospels: Coming face to face with Jesus in Mark'' (IVP, 2015) (co-authored with Tim Hiorns) * ''The Weirdest Nativity'' (10Publishing, 2019) (co-authored with Jonathan Gemmell) * ''Are You 100% Sure You Want To Be an Agnostic?'' (10Publishing, 2022) (co-authored with Jonathan Gemmell)

References

External links

Review of ''Dig Deeper'' in ''Evangelicals Now''

Review of ''Pierced for Our Transgressions''

DigDeeper.tools website
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