He Translated for MacArthur and Lawson. Here's What He Learned When Heroes Fall - Hernan Sierra

He was baptized at 12, raised in church, and a model kid. He was also lost. Pastor Hernán Sierra of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, tells how God saved him through his wife's transformation and an expository sermon, then turned a Spanish-speaking "perfect Pharisee" into the voice behind John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, and other Reformed preachers across Central America.

Then the conversation turns hard. Dr. Zach Terry gives his first honest take on Steve Lawson's newly released book after his moral failure ("I still haven't decided if he wrote it"), and the two pastors talk candidly about why leaders fall, why outrage is the wrong response, what MacArthur was like when the cameras were off, and how a church can publicly restore a fallen brother without putting him back on the platform.

If you love your pastor, pray for your pastor, or are a pastor, this one is for you. Stay to the end for Jude's doxology: the God who kept you from the beginning is able to keep you to the end.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Welcome back: Pastor Hernán Sierra joins Zach in studio

1:09 "To live is Christ" and the heartbeat illustration

2:30 Borrowing sermon insights: "The third time, I was thinking the other day..."

3:24 Baptized at 12, still lost: Hernán's story begins

4:30 A marriage on the edge of divorce, and a wife made new

5:45 "I was a perfect Pharisee"

6:11 Saved under expository preaching: the veil comes off

8:28 Planting a church in his garage (yes, the dogs counted)