{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"North Coast Church Life Groups Leader Guide","title":"Leader Guide 2026: Fall Week 6 - Late Pastors","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":612,"description":"\nWe finished Matthew 25 with the sheep and the goats. The sermon was called \"Answers To The Final Exam,\" and yes, you will be quizzed at the end.\n\nI started with a 1973 study from Princeton. Seminary students, some of them on their way to give a talk on the Good Samaritan, walked past a man slumped in a doorway. Whether they stopped had almost nothing to do with the talk and almost everything to do with whether they were running late. A few of them literally stepped over him. As a pastor, I'm offended.\n\nThat turns out to be the whole passage. Neither the sheep nor the goats knew what they were doing. Also this week: Abraham at ninety-nine running out to meet three strangers, why visiting someone in a Roman prison cost you something, and the one word Matthew adds in 26:1.\n\nThree things you'll hear in group: \"Do I get into heaven by helping people?\", \"the least of these\" turning political, and the person who leaves sure they're a goat.\n\nThis one's shorter. I'm trying a highlights version instead of walking through the whole guide. Tell me what you think about the length, the format, the music, anything. Nothing's off the table.\n\nIn this episode\n0:00 Cold open: the 1973 Princeton study, and who stops for the man in the doorway\n1:05 Welcome to week six, and the big idea\n1:40 Where to slow down in the guide: the noticing warm-up, both groups surprised (Know It 1), small counts (Share It 1), the kitchen-table midterm (Live It 1), and this week's Kinship Question\n3:25 The rabbit hole: why hurry shrinks what we see, Hebrews 13 and Abraham's three strangers, hospitality as survival, Roman prisons, and the word \"all\" in Matthew 26:1\n6:20 Three things you'll hear in group: \"Do I get into heaven by helping people?\", \"the least of these\" and politics, and \"What if I'm a goat?\"\n8:30 One tiny practical thing: leave for group ten minutes early. For science.\n8:40 For you in particular: the sheep didn't know either\n9:25 Help shape this podcast: length, format, music\n\nScripture in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/m9bfTaE2mOdr2NKnUpiGKcguOTHmDlHsmyPKkEiviSA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjc2/OTNhMTJkZmQzYTc3/NjdhYmZiODg5M2U1/YjNlZC53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}