WEBVTT 00:00:21.536 --> 00:00:25.696 Welcome to the podcast that refuses to live life on mute. 00:00:25.916 --> 00:00:29.936 It's time to amplify the truth and drown out the noise. 00:00:30.216 --> 00:00:35.976 Coming to you live from the Lord's Lair in the Shenandoah Valley, this is Life on 11. 00:00:36.236 --> 00:00:39.636 We're turning up the volume on faith and kingdom living. 00:00:39.996 --> 00:00:42.296 Here are your hosts, Jeremy and John. 00:00:48.656 --> 00:00:51.796 What's happening, dog? What's up, brother? 00:00:52.456 --> 00:00:55.716 Nothing. Just chilling? Just chilling. Just chilling. 00:00:56.316 --> 00:00:59.656 I'm glad it's warm enough I don't need a heated blanket on right now. 00:01:00.236 --> 00:01:06.376 Dude, it is, compared to what it was last week. Oh, dude, it was balmy today. Yeah, like a balmy 40. 00:01:06.936 --> 00:01:10.216 Did it make it to 40? I don't know. I'm not sure. I saw 37. Okay. 00:01:10.216 --> 00:01:13.436 That was good enough for me. Yeah. Yeah. We got out of the single digits. 00:01:14.196 --> 00:01:17.556 You had to what? I said we got out of the single digits. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. 00:01:17.556 --> 00:01:20.516 But the snow crete is still here 00:01:20.516 --> 00:01:23.656 the stoke the snow crete is definitely 00:01:23.656 --> 00:01:26.896 yes still here that fact i almost busted my 00:01:26.896 --> 00:01:30.776 hiney on it a couple times today yeah if you get to a spot where like there's 00:01:30.776 --> 00:01:36.736 no like it's just oh yeah oh yeah yeah i went i had the lord's chicken for lunch 00:01:36.736 --> 00:01:42.116 today oh nice so i parked and i parked right next to a snow pile because there's 00:01:42.116 --> 00:01:44.536 snow piles everywhere And when I got out of the truck, 00:01:45.396 --> 00:01:51.216 you know, snow crete on a 45 degree angle and my foot on it doesn't work too 00:01:51.216 --> 00:01:53.536 good. Remember that time when I fell getting out of your truck? 00:01:53.736 --> 00:02:00.196 Dude, that's one of my favorite memories, especially because Olivia came running 00:02:00.196 --> 00:02:02.256 outside with no pants on. 00:02:05.056 --> 00:02:05.476 Yeah. 00:02:06.772 --> 00:02:10.512 It was like snow and ice on the ground, and I got out of your truck, 00:02:10.512 --> 00:02:16.632 and I fell, and we turned around, and Liv was standing at the fence in nothing but her underwear. 00:02:17.272 --> 00:02:19.812 Yeah, it was great. Are you okay, Daddy? It was great. 00:02:20.492 --> 00:02:26.032 Never forget it. And anybody who knows Liv is not at all surprised at all. How's your week? 00:02:27.492 --> 00:02:31.492 Oh, man. Well, I got a filling repaired today. 00:02:31.732 --> 00:02:35.612 That sounds like a horrible day. I mean, it's better than pulling teeth, 00:02:35.692 --> 00:02:37.152 I guess. That's true. You know, so. 00:02:37.452 --> 00:02:40.332 Okay. And I was happy that I have a big old gaping hole in my tooth. 00:02:40.512 --> 00:02:43.132 Yeah. So that was nice. Cool. Yeah. Awesome. 00:02:43.852 --> 00:02:50.412 Yeah. So that was. Anything else fun? I mean, you know, church yesterday. Yeah. A good lunch. 00:02:51.372 --> 00:02:54.412 Yeah. So I know. I know. Yeah. 00:02:54.652 --> 00:02:57.012 I know. I didn't. I didn't get a good lunch. You didn't get a good lunch, 00:02:57.052 --> 00:03:01.572 but I mean, maybe you had a good lunch, just not. No, I didn't. With us. No, I didn't. 00:03:02.072 --> 00:03:05.852 Yeah. I did. Well, it was cool. So I had to jet right after church yesterday 00:03:05.852 --> 00:03:08.232 and go do Barron Ridge, called a new pastor. 00:03:08.292 --> 00:03:11.092 So I went to go install their pastor. Nice. Got that done. 00:03:11.572 --> 00:03:15.412 And then some people know mom's not having the best time right now with her 00:03:15.412 --> 00:03:18.192 health, so she's still in the hospital. So I went to see her yesterday. 00:03:19.492 --> 00:03:23.432 Now, when you installed this new pastor, was it like a plug-in or like screw-in? 00:03:23.552 --> 00:03:26.232 Yeah, he's like one of those self-regenerating ones. I got like a Prius. 00:03:26.452 --> 00:03:28.652 Oh, wow. Okay. All right. Yeah. Cool. 00:03:29.392 --> 00:03:33.712 So when they called me at Mount Sin, the big joke was they were having their John installed. so. 00:03:36.252 --> 00:03:40.452 I like it okay I like it I'm not gonna make any other jokes other than that okay, 00:03:40.981 --> 00:03:45.641 There was no football this week. Bro. Yeah, that's a little disappointing. 00:03:46.661 --> 00:03:50.301 Basketball's just not, I mean, I love basketball, but it's just not the same as football. 00:03:51.001 --> 00:03:53.621 You know what it is about basketball? I think we've talked about this before. 00:03:53.721 --> 00:03:56.661 What it is about basketball is there's so much basketball. That's true. You're right. 00:03:56.921 --> 00:03:59.241 You can just become like saturated with basketball. Yeah. 00:03:59.981 --> 00:04:04.161 Yep. So. You can reach your dew point quickly. Very quickly. 00:04:04.661 --> 00:04:06.341 Very quickly. See what I did there? 00:04:06.881 --> 00:04:09.881 Reach your dew point. Yeah. Because like get overly saturated. 00:04:12.821 --> 00:04:15.501 Yeah sorry that wasn't funny so last week 00:04:15.501 --> 00:04:18.761 we kicked off our our anabaptist brethren 00:04:18.761 --> 00:04:22.261 pietist all the things series it 00:04:22.261 --> 00:04:27.221 was fun things things is the new it's the thing yeah things is the new thing 00:04:27.221 --> 00:04:30.421 okay we're gonna say thing a lot so we had some fun that was good yeah i thought 00:04:30.421 --> 00:04:33.961 it was great yeah i got some good feedback i don't know about you i didn't well 00:04:33.961 --> 00:04:38.681 yeah i got a little bit of feedback okay yeah okay it wasn't bad okay good well 00:04:38.681 --> 00:04:39.801 that's the way you said it was like. 00:04:41.281 --> 00:04:44.561 Actually you know we're gonna just skip past that but yeah 00:04:44.561 --> 00:04:47.561 and uh so we'll do this one you know it'd be 00:04:47.561 --> 00:04:52.201 good is it it is gonna be good okay because we're actually talking about so 00:04:52.201 --> 00:04:57.621 there's there's a few things about the brethren faith that i like i love i talked 00:04:57.621 --> 00:05:02.841 about a little bit last week and so one of them i keep saying the brethren faith 00:05:02.841 --> 00:05:05.101 the anabaptist faith yeah no I got you. 00:05:05.321 --> 00:05:12.301 The authority and the understanding of God's word is a key component of that. 00:05:12.581 --> 00:05:16.981 And so today we are talking about the word that shapes us. 00:05:17.101 --> 00:05:23.061 And we're talking about a traditional Anabaptist understanding of the scriptures. 00:05:23.061 --> 00:05:30.141 And I feel like we need to start with the disclaimer that in the past few years, 00:05:30.381 --> 00:05:36.721 maybe there's been less of an emphasis on the authority of the word of God for a lot of Anabaptists. 00:05:37.579 --> 00:05:41.919 Groups. Yeah. And so, you know, we were part of the Church of the Brethren split. 00:05:42.139 --> 00:05:46.739 The Mennonites have had ongoing issues. Oh yeah, quite a few over the years, yes. Right. 00:05:46.779 --> 00:05:51.519 And so, I want to preface this with saying, like, I think we are approaching 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:57.739 this from a historical perspective and not going, you might hear some things 00:05:57.739 --> 00:05:59.119 like, well, that's not necessarily true. 00:06:00.019 --> 00:06:04.899 Well, it was historically true, and for some of the groups that have come out 00:06:04.899 --> 00:06:06.259 of the split, it is still true. 00:06:06.259 --> 00:06:13.379 I mean, we kind of talked about that last week, about how things have kind of 00:06:13.379 --> 00:06:19.939 divided apart because of interpretation of Scripture and just—, 00:06:20.411 --> 00:06:24.751 pure disregard absolutely scripture i mean absolutely no other way to put it 00:06:24.751 --> 00:06:31.091 yeah so one of the things that really i've always appreciated about about the brethren side of 00:06:31.291 --> 00:06:36.211 anabaptism is so for the longest time brethren were called like people of the 00:06:36.211 --> 00:06:41.351 book okay because they took the bible seriously and like we talked about last 00:06:41.351 --> 00:06:47.951 week like the black and white literal reading of the scripture is 99.9% of the 00:06:47.951 --> 00:06:50.411 time, the accurate way to read the scripture. 00:06:51.231 --> 00:06:58.431 Yes. And that has historically been how most Anabaptists have approached the Bible. 00:06:59.231 --> 00:07:03.231 Is that fair in the Midnight Church too? Yes. Yes. I would say for sure. 00:07:03.651 --> 00:07:09.171 And also want to reference people back to the translations podcast, 00:07:09.171 --> 00:07:13.931 because oftentimes I hear the argument from people when you talk, 00:07:14.291 --> 00:07:20.251 like I've specifically told people that I, I firmly believe that the Bible is 00:07:20.251 --> 00:07:22.751 divinely inspired word of God. 00:07:22.951 --> 00:07:26.451 Like I firmly believe that nothing's going to change my mind. Right. 00:07:26.771 --> 00:07:29.011 And they're like, yeah, but what about all the translations? 00:07:29.091 --> 00:07:32.991 What about when, you know, you're not reading in its original language. 00:07:33.311 --> 00:07:37.511 And I'm like, I understand what you're saying, but that's not like, 00:07:37.611 --> 00:07:41.391 I even believe that the translation of it is divinely inspired. 00:07:42.151 --> 00:07:47.271 And that is also why if you go back to that same podcast, both of us, 00:07:47.351 --> 00:07:52.071 I know, we choose to read from scriptures that are the closest that we can get 00:07:52.071 --> 00:07:54.211 to the original manuscript. 00:07:54.471 --> 00:07:58.271 That matters too, right? And so that's super important. 00:07:58.731 --> 00:08:05.431 And so the emphasis that Anabaptists have put on the Word of God. 00:08:05.591 --> 00:08:12.091 In fact, so much so, I will tell you that one of the critiques of folks like 00:08:12.091 --> 00:08:16.211 you and I, as we talk about it, is I've heard people say, like, oh... 00:08:16.874 --> 00:08:20.914 Some brethren, some Anabaptists worship the Bible, not Jesus. 00:08:21.574 --> 00:08:24.774 I've heard people say that before. Wow, okay. And it's like, 00:08:24.934 --> 00:08:29.354 well, no, we worship Jesus, but we know who Jesus is through the scriptures. 00:08:29.814 --> 00:08:33.374 Yes. And John 1 says that Jesus is the word. 00:08:33.734 --> 00:08:40.214 Yeah. And so it's hard to slice those two things apart. But I do think that, 00:08:40.514 --> 00:08:47.934 you know, we worship Jesus and we do that through study and being involved in the word of God. 00:08:48.134 --> 00:08:53.374 And so the Bible has to be core because if you take the Bible out of the equation, 00:08:53.374 --> 00:08:58.394 then all of a sudden you have nothing to hold together who Jesus is from a historical 00:08:58.394 --> 00:09:00.394 or theological perspective. Yeah. 00:09:00.634 --> 00:09:06.894 I mean, everything becomes, what do you call stories that aren't written down? Yeah, fables. 00:09:07.194 --> 00:09:12.894 Yeah, fables. Yeah, that's a good one. Or folklore. There you go. 00:09:14.454 --> 00:09:18.614 So one of the things that we talked about in this outline is, 00:09:18.754 --> 00:09:22.934 so scripture is authority, not accessory. 00:09:23.854 --> 00:09:27.814 And that is that's huge because the 00:09:27.814 --> 00:09:30.594 moment that we make scripture an accessory we're working 00:09:30.594 --> 00:09:33.594 through it backwards um we think about scriptures like second 00:09:33.594 --> 00:09:36.294 timothy chapter 3 verses 16 and 17 you know all 00:09:36.294 --> 00:09:39.494 scripture is breathed out by god and useful for teaching and 00:09:39.494 --> 00:09:43.334 rebuking and training in righteousness um and then here is 4 12 which talks 00:09:43.334 --> 00:09:46.734 about that the word is living and active and it's sharper than any two-edged 00:09:46.734 --> 00:09:53.154 sword right yeah i mean how many times do you see someone take a opinion or 00:09:53.154 --> 00:09:57.654 a thought and then just pick through the scripture to make it, 00:09:58.214 --> 00:10:00.714 fit whatever their opinion or thought is. Absolutely. 00:10:01.054 --> 00:10:04.454 I mean, that's, you see that everywhere. Right. 00:10:05.198 --> 00:10:08.098 And yeah, so this is kind of what we're talking about. Yeah. 00:10:08.298 --> 00:10:13.118 And so the way that Anabaptists have traditionally approached the scriptures 00:10:13.118 --> 00:10:17.878 would say that it is scriptural authority placed in a cultural context. 00:10:18.678 --> 00:10:24.978 There you go. And so the scriptures provide the accuracy that we need. 00:10:25.058 --> 00:10:30.498 And then we place them inside of a culture and we allow the scriptures to speak to culture. 00:10:31.998 --> 00:10:33.658 And unfortunately, we've moved 00:10:33.658 --> 00:10:38.118 to a place where most folks are allowing culture to speak to scripture. 00:10:38.638 --> 00:10:44.678 Absolutely. And so the Bible is never meant to be like the sprinkles on the ice cream. 00:10:44.998 --> 00:10:48.338 Ooh, I like that analogy. That's good. It's supposed to be the ice cream. 00:10:48.498 --> 00:10:51.898 It's supposed to be the thing. And then all the other stuff sits on top of it. Okay. 00:10:52.218 --> 00:10:56.738 Instead of it being that we kind of sprinkle a little Bible on top of whatever 00:10:56.738 --> 00:10:58.258 we're talking about and then we try to make it religious. 00:10:58.478 --> 00:11:01.658 Man, how true is that today though? I mean, for absolutely like you, 00:11:01.738 --> 00:11:06.078 I'm not going to mention any names, but you know, you watch some of these big 00:11:06.078 --> 00:11:10.078 TV preachers and stuff and all that prosperity gospel. 00:11:10.698 --> 00:11:14.098 And that's, did I send you that thing the other day? What that is. 00:11:14.158 --> 00:11:17.498 Did I send you that thing the other day? We're going to go jump on fire. I don't know if you did. 00:11:19.718 --> 00:11:23.298 I met a woman who was crying cause she, cause she lost $300. 00:11:24.358 --> 00:11:30.278 Okay. And so I gave her $100 of the $300 that I would have blessed me with that I found on the ground. 00:11:31.980 --> 00:11:36.100 Oh, my goodness. No, I don't remember seeing that. I don't remember seeing that. 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:39.100 I must have seen somebody else, and I was like, oh, Prosperity Gospel 101. 00:11:40.660 --> 00:11:47.240 Oh, wow. Okay. But all that to say, that is one of the, if you want to create 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.500 heresy, here's number one way to create heresy. 00:11:51.280 --> 00:11:55.060 Believe something and then open the Bible to justify your opinion. Yep. 00:11:55.680 --> 00:11:59.580 All right? Absolutely. And I told folks before, like, I am a trained theologian. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:05.340 You give me a couple hours in a Bible, I can justify almost anything by taking 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:06.820 scriptures out of context. Sure. 00:12:07.060 --> 00:12:11.160 I can find all sorts of one-line scriptures, and we'll just pick out of stuff. 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:13.700 Oh, yeah. I can justify all kinds of stuff. Oh, yeah. 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:16.820 Yeah, hey, John, scripture says we're supposed to only wear long underwear. 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:21.000 All right, well, give me five hours and a cup of coffee. I can probably- I can 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:22.200 come up with something for you. Right. 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.240 Like, I could twist enough scripture to probably come up somehow with that, right? Right. 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:30.240 And unfortunately, that's how a lot of people do their Bible reading is they 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:36.060 approach the scriptures with an opinion and say, now, scripture, justify my opinion. 00:12:36.280 --> 00:12:41.540 And unfortunately, a lot of devotionals and things like that are written in 00:12:41.540 --> 00:12:47.100 that way to reference, to have a point of view and then reference specific things. 00:12:48.526 --> 00:12:53.706 Verses in the scripture to, to form that opinion in someone's mind. 00:12:53.826 --> 00:12:56.426 And then like, Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:56.726 --> 00:12:59.306 And, and that, and that's, that's the, and we all have those, 00:12:59.366 --> 00:13:01.186 like we all have those biases. Right. 00:13:01.586 --> 00:13:04.766 And so that's actually one of the reasons why. So, you know, 00:13:04.846 --> 00:13:08.146 I do, I do a fair amount of like what I would call topical preaching. 00:13:08.606 --> 00:13:12.446 Okay. That I, you know, like we talk about things, but, but at least a couple 00:13:12.446 --> 00:13:16.806 of times a year, I try to do like expository preaching where you don't preach through a whole book. 00:13:16.906 --> 00:13:19.846 We preach through like verse by verse by verse of things. 00:13:20.006 --> 00:13:23.986 And I do a lot of Bible, like a lot of our Bible studies that we do are very 00:13:23.986 --> 00:13:28.306 expository because then you have to wrestle with every verse in order. 00:13:29.006 --> 00:13:31.426 Because if not, you'd be like, I mean, I could be right now, 00:13:31.546 --> 00:13:36.666 like create me a sermon about, you know, grace and just pull up every scripture about grace. 00:13:37.286 --> 00:13:40.226 Never read the context. Never read what it's saying. 00:13:40.726 --> 00:13:45.826 And miss the forest for the trees. I mean, especially with AI now. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 00:13:46.066 --> 00:13:48.906 I mean, somebody could think, Someone could think they know everything about 00:13:48.906 --> 00:13:51.266 the Bible and never open a Bible. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. 00:13:51.646 --> 00:13:56.006 And so we all have to lay down our biases, right? Because- 00:13:56.547 --> 00:14:00.127 And especially, you know, as like a minister, that's something that like I have 00:14:00.127 --> 00:14:03.787 to wrestle with really on a weekly basis is, you know, okay, 00:14:03.927 --> 00:14:07.807 God, help me get out of the way of what I think about this, this thing that 00:14:07.807 --> 00:14:11.267 you're having me wrestle with and let me approach the scriptures with fresh eyes. 00:14:11.267 --> 00:14:15.067 And so many people, that's why I think Christians don't have a lot of conversation 00:14:15.067 --> 00:14:20.787 on hard topics is because it's so hard for us to lay down our bias, you know, and say, okay, 00:14:20.967 --> 00:14:25.707 let's really read the scriptures and what they say without our opinions influencing 00:14:25.707 --> 00:14:27.927 them. And let's build them from the ground up. Yeah. 00:14:28.287 --> 00:14:32.747 I mean, especially if it's a bias from a young age and something you've held 00:14:32.747 --> 00:14:36.647 on to for a long time. Oh, absolutely. That can make it even harder. 00:14:36.987 --> 00:14:39.627 And see. And so, I mean, we don't have to get into this all tonight. 00:14:39.627 --> 00:14:42.727 I'm like, man, we could do like a whole podcast on some of this other stuff. Sure. 00:14:43.347 --> 00:14:46.627 Deconstructed theology. Have you heard of this? Ooh. Yeah. Let me do a whole 00:14:46.627 --> 00:14:49.087 podcast on deconstructive theology. 00:14:49.627 --> 00:14:52.887 So basically, it's this idea of like theologically, you deconstruct everything 00:14:52.887 --> 00:14:59.607 you think you know about God. So you approach your belief systems and you look to deconstruct them. 00:15:00.027 --> 00:15:05.287 Ooh, okay. That's interesting. And it's a really popular way of reading the 00:15:05.287 --> 00:15:08.707 scriptures and reading the Bible. The problem is, is that most people don't 00:15:08.707 --> 00:15:09.867 ever reconstruct it again. 00:15:10.547 --> 00:15:13.327 Oh, okay. And so you have a bunch of people walking around who no longer believe 00:15:13.327 --> 00:15:15.507 in God or don't believe in all the things that they thought they did. 00:15:15.787 --> 00:15:17.947 So you have people that are like, oh, well, I mean, for example, 00:15:18.047 --> 00:15:20.427 like homosexuality. They're like, oh, well, I'm going to read the Bible in a 00:15:20.427 --> 00:15:23.367 way that deconstructs my human sexuality theology. 00:15:24.167 --> 00:15:25.887 And then they get to the end and they're like, all right, well, 00:15:25.887 --> 00:15:29.567 I'm good now. And they never rebuild it. They never reconstruct it. 00:15:29.847 --> 00:15:32.167 Oh, interesting. It's really harmful. Yeah, I can't say I've heard that. 00:15:32.327 --> 00:15:34.487 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard of it. So that would be a really interesting, 00:15:34.707 --> 00:15:37.187 just some different theologies to get into sometime. 00:15:38.093 --> 00:15:40.653 The other thing we talk about with the Anabaptist way of doing faith, 00:15:40.733 --> 00:15:45.693 and this might be my single favorite thing that I love about Anabaptism. 00:15:45.773 --> 00:15:48.133 I feel like you're going to say this at least seven more times. 00:15:48.333 --> 00:15:49.453 No, no, no. This is number one. 00:15:51.413 --> 00:15:53.933 This is probably number one. Okay, all right. Until next week. 00:15:54.233 --> 00:15:55.393 This is number one for right now. 00:15:56.813 --> 00:15:59.813 Is reading the word of God in community. Yes. 00:16:00.113 --> 00:16:07.533 And I love the fact that we read the Bible together in community. 00:16:08.633 --> 00:16:11.453 Is that like you guys i'm sure you grew 00:16:11.453 --> 00:16:14.213 up with that oh yeah absolutely absolutely we would 00:16:14.213 --> 00:16:17.093 call like communal hermeneutics would be the two dollar word whoa 00:16:17.093 --> 00:16:19.973 that's like a five dollar word that's a two dollar 00:16:19.973 --> 00:16:23.133 word that's a five dollar word yeah i'm gonna have to pause this just to look 00:16:23.133 --> 00:16:28.133 it up hot dog what kind of harmonica is he playing exactly but like i know i 00:16:28.133 --> 00:16:33.813 can remember i can remember when i was young and not not not trying to bash 00:16:33.813 --> 00:16:39.133 any any new sunday school lessons or bible schools that we do. 00:16:39.333 --> 00:16:45.933 But I really remember, like, we really dove into the Word during Sunday school 00:16:45.933 --> 00:16:52.153 and during Bible school, like, so much so that I memorized passages, 00:16:52.573 --> 00:16:57.173 like, even, like, entire chapters to recite. 00:16:57.513 --> 00:17:02.493 Like, we went through them in that much detail and learned, like, 00:17:02.513 --> 00:17:08.453 what each And yeah, like, so that was very, very important for us. 00:17:08.793 --> 00:17:14.173 And so the phrase that I'd share with you was we read personally, 00:17:14.173 --> 00:17:16.553 we discern communally. Yep. 00:17:16.973 --> 00:17:21.933 Right. And so it's this understanding that we have personal convictions that. 00:17:22.384 --> 00:17:26.344 And we have personal ways that we read the scriptures, but the Anabaptist way 00:17:26.344 --> 00:17:31.464 of doing faith would say, you always check those with the community, right? 00:17:31.604 --> 00:17:37.484 And so if I'm reading something, then I need to surround myself with other brothers 00:17:37.484 --> 00:17:40.064 and sisters. And I'm like, hey, this is what I think the scriptures are saying 00:17:40.064 --> 00:17:42.584 to me. And this is what I think God is saying to me. 00:17:42.864 --> 00:17:47.744 And that's not to say that I don't have an individual reading, 00:17:47.904 --> 00:17:52.924 but it also acts as a safeguard, this might be like, John, are you crazy? 00:17:53.124 --> 00:17:56.964 Like, no, that's not what to, you know, to really have that check in it. 00:17:57.244 --> 00:18:00.324 Yeah. I mean, some of the best Bible studies I've ever been to have been exactly 00:18:00.324 --> 00:18:03.124 what you're talking about, where we're going through verse by verse and where, 00:18:03.404 --> 00:18:05.884 you know, what are your thoughts? What are you? 00:18:06.464 --> 00:18:08.644 Yeah. But here's the thing that I would say. Okay. 00:18:09.244 --> 00:18:13.664 One of the reasons why I think that has gone away, in my opinion, 00:18:13.984 --> 00:18:17.204 is that it implies that people are in the word. 00:18:18.144 --> 00:18:23.144 True. And so, as we have become a more distracted society, 00:18:23.484 --> 00:18:32.584 and scriptural literacy is at an all-time low, you can't have a communal hermeneutic 00:18:32.584 --> 00:18:35.264 if the community is not in the Bible. 00:18:35.704 --> 00:18:40.244 You can't have a Bible study with 10 people showing up and talking about what 00:18:40.244 --> 00:18:44.364 the Bible is speaking to them if only two or three of those individuals are 00:18:44.364 --> 00:18:46.884 actually reading their Bible seriously. Mm-hmm. 00:18:47.555 --> 00:18:50.435 And so, and that is one thing that like, 00:18:50.935 --> 00:18:57.715 again, I think we have to think about is, is if we want, if we want a way of 00:18:57.715 --> 00:19:01.475 reading the scriptures together, then we all have to have a common conviction 00:19:01.475 --> 00:19:05.195 to say, we're all going to be in the word and we're all going to be spending this time together. 00:19:05.195 --> 00:19:10.095 So that there is that understanding and not like, because you can't have a communal 00:19:10.095 --> 00:19:13.035 understanding of scripture. You can't read scripture in community. 00:19:13.335 --> 00:19:17.455 If like we open up our Bibles to Habakkuk chapter two, and you're like, 00:19:17.535 --> 00:19:18.695 this is the first I've heard of this. 00:19:20.135 --> 00:19:24.775 Sure. But if we've all read it and we're all spending time in it, 00:19:24.875 --> 00:19:29.815 and even if like you're not in Habakkuk chapter two, even if you're in Job chapter 00:19:29.815 --> 00:19:32.575 one, like there might be ways of tying those things together. 00:19:32.975 --> 00:19:36.375 But it assumes that we are all saturating our lives with scripture, 00:19:36.375 --> 00:19:39.795 going back to the first thing, that the scripture is the ice cream, 00:19:39.935 --> 00:19:43.895 that we are spending so much time in the Bible that we can read the Bible together. 00:19:44.135 --> 00:19:47.935 And we're not just approaching at it like, oh, this is the first time I've laid 00:19:47.935 --> 00:19:49.575 eyes in the Bible this week. Are there thoughts on that? 00:19:49.895 --> 00:19:54.795 I mean, okay. I believe you that this is number one now after hearing you go 00:19:54.795 --> 00:19:56.935 through. I believe of you, I think. 00:19:57.455 --> 00:20:00.035 I proved it to you. Yeah, you proved it. You proved it to me. 00:20:00.995 --> 00:20:04.835 Is it because I used a $5 word? No, no, no, no. No, it's not because you used 00:20:04.835 --> 00:20:07.055 a $5 word. It's because you were very passionate about it while you're talking 00:20:07.055 --> 00:20:08.175 about it. Okay. Yes. Yeah. 00:20:08.495 --> 00:20:11.335 Yeah. No, it's very good. And you're, you're right. I mean, what, 00:20:11.355 --> 00:20:12.755 like I said, with all of the. 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:18.219 My goodness. I mean, I'm guilty myself. Like if somebody gets into like, 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.399 uh, you know, a podcast teacher or a YouTube teacher or whatever kind of teacher, 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:28.999 and they're, they're using that as their, as their devotional time. I'm guilty of it too. 00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:34.279 Not, not opening the Bible, but just listening to someone else talk about what 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:36.539 they think about the Bible. It's not the same thing. 00:20:37.159 --> 00:20:42.299 And you're absolutely right. And, and it's, it's a lot, it's not harder for 00:20:42.299 --> 00:20:45.319 people to get in the, in the word, but People say it's harder. 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.939 Absolutely. Because of their time commitments elsewhere. Right. 00:20:49.239 --> 00:20:54.339 And again, because of so much of it, it's a distracted society. Oh, absolutely. 00:20:54.719 --> 00:20:59.299 My granddaddy, my mom, my granddaddy didn't watch television. 00:20:59.439 --> 00:21:00.459 They didn't have a television. 00:21:00.719 --> 00:21:02.799 He read his Bible in the evenings. Yeah. 00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:06.259 They didn't have the internet to scroll. Sure. 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:09.579 You know what I mean? And so some of it is that. 00:21:09.859 --> 00:21:13.599 The other thing, like you were talking about, I had that early in my ministry. 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:18.079 Like, dude, I got I got so plugged into Francis Chan at one point. 00:21:18.658 --> 00:21:23.118 Like I would, anytime I was doing sermon prep or anytime I was doing something, 00:21:23.178 --> 00:21:26.558 like I'd always, I'd be like, oh, I'm going to see what Francis Chan said about 00:21:26.558 --> 00:21:28.718 this. And like, God really convicted me. 00:21:28.878 --> 00:21:32.658 Like, you need to, you need to stop doing that, you know? 00:21:32.878 --> 00:21:35.338 And, and I mean, I would read it, but it was like always my go-to. 00:21:35.438 --> 00:21:38.498 Like I would read a, I would read a passage and be like, all right. 00:21:39.198 --> 00:21:41.518 What's Francis Chan's right. Like I'd be on, you know, YouTube, 00:21:41.718 --> 00:21:44.938 like Francis Chan sermons on Ephesians chapter two, you know, 00:21:45.018 --> 00:21:47.638 or whatever. We're like just trying to figure out like, and, 00:21:47.638 --> 00:21:49.778 and God, and God convicted me of that. 00:21:49.898 --> 00:21:52.618 Like, you know, be careful that you're not elevating that person. 00:21:52.798 --> 00:21:56.718 Sure. And, and, you know, especially now, like with, with Facebook and the algorithm 00:21:56.718 --> 00:21:58.178 algorithms and everything. 00:21:58.498 --> 00:22:02.338 Absolutely. So like, like, so recently I've been, I've been listening to some 00:22:02.338 --> 00:22:04.018 sermons by Josh Howerton. 00:22:04.298 --> 00:22:07.378 Like when I'm driving long distances, I have time to listen to a whole sermon, 00:22:07.538 --> 00:22:10.818 whatever. And you sent me one and now it's all over my face. Exactly. Yes. 00:22:11.038 --> 00:22:15.678 And so that stuff always is coming up. Not necessarily that that's bad. 00:22:15.758 --> 00:22:16.838 That doesn't mean that's bad. 00:22:17.018 --> 00:22:20.038 Like it's better than other stuff to come up when you're scrolling through. 00:22:20.218 --> 00:22:25.418 But I mean, you can easily get to where, oh, yeah, I listened to three sermons today. 00:22:25.538 --> 00:22:28.238 I don't need to read the Bible or, you know, it's really easy to think like, 00:22:28.318 --> 00:22:30.278 oh, I connected with God already. I don't need to do this. 00:22:30.538 --> 00:22:32.738 Right, right, right. And there is like... 00:22:33.178 --> 00:22:37.258 We need to be people who are immersed in scripture, but it's possible that you 00:22:37.258 --> 00:22:39.338 can be immersed in scripture and never actually open up the Bible. 00:22:39.498 --> 00:22:41.638 Oh, yes. That's the pendulum swing on the other side. 00:22:41.938 --> 00:22:45.298 Exactly. Yeah. And that's definitely where we are as a society. 00:22:45.518 --> 00:22:48.938 Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing that I love about the communal hermeneutics 00:22:48.938 --> 00:22:53.478 part of reading the Bible in community is that it prevents anybody from going 00:22:53.478 --> 00:22:55.658 rogue in their theology. 00:22:55.978 --> 00:23:01.318 Going rogue. And I would say of all the things that I have seen people struggle 00:23:01.318 --> 00:23:06.258 with, if they grew up like Baptist or they grew up like Assemblies of God, 00:23:06.478 --> 00:23:12.738 where there's this deep emphasis on like God spoke to me and then they become 00:23:12.738 --> 00:23:14.638 brethren or they start attending. 00:23:14.638 --> 00:23:17.298 Even mounds on like the the context i can 00:23:17.298 --> 00:23:20.598 speak to like probably the hardest thing that it 00:23:20.598 --> 00:23:24.258 that that for them to wrestle with is that someone will 00:23:24.258 --> 00:23:30.098 walk in my office and say like god said to me and like that doesn't carry as 00:23:30.098 --> 00:23:36.338 much weight with me ah yes as it does with other people yep because i my next 00:23:36.338 --> 00:23:39.698 question was okay and have you processed through that that through the word 00:23:39.698 --> 00:23:42.978 and have you process that through the, through the counsel of other believers. 00:23:43.198 --> 00:23:45.358 Yes. Well, God said to me, okay. 00:23:45.838 --> 00:23:52.178 Yep. And if God said that to you, then you should not be afraid to process that 00:23:52.178 --> 00:23:55.098 through the lens of scripture and the lens of the community. 00:23:56.198 --> 00:23:59.478 Because man, I can tell you like a lot of theological, like a lot of heresy 00:23:59.478 --> 00:24:04.098 could have been avoided had somebody who one time said, God said to me, 00:24:04.538 --> 00:24:07.358 processed it through the local church and like all their brothers and sisters 00:24:07.358 --> 00:24:09.158 and deacons, leaders in the church were like, whoa. 00:24:09.858 --> 00:24:13.238 Hang on you know i mean and 00:24:13.238 --> 00:24:18.378 so that's what i appreciate about it is is we don't put as much weight now if 00:24:18.378 --> 00:24:21.738 if you were to walk in here to me you know we're getting ready to do next week's 00:24:21.738 --> 00:24:25.878 podcast you came in you were like john god told me that you know tara and i 00:24:25.878 --> 00:24:30.038 need to move to idaho i'm like what a coincidence god told me and jessica we have to move to idaho no. 00:24:31.117 --> 00:24:34.077 I'd be like, okay, Jeremy. It could probably be a lot more like, 00:24:34.197 --> 00:24:38.437 I feel like God is leading. It would be more like that rather than. 00:24:38.697 --> 00:24:42.897 Yeah. And my next question would be like, okay, well, can we find some time 00:24:42.897 --> 00:24:45.797 to process that together? Yes. And that's what I would expect. 00:24:46.057 --> 00:24:50.597 Right. Yeah. And not that as your pastor, you need my permission or like that. Sure. 00:24:50.837 --> 00:24:53.857 People are always saying something. I'm like, do you want to find time to talk about that? 00:24:54.017 --> 00:24:57.257 Because that is part of what we do as a community. And like, 00:24:57.557 --> 00:25:01.737 when somebody says like, well, God told me it is not like, it shouldn't be the 00:25:01.737 --> 00:25:05.157 point where the church goes, well, now we have no say, like we have no part 00:25:05.157 --> 00:25:06.177 to be able to tell this person. 00:25:06.357 --> 00:25:10.437 It should be the church gathers around them and says, okay, well, 00:25:10.537 --> 00:25:12.857 let's discern that together. Let's discern together. 00:25:13.297 --> 00:25:16.897 Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But man, and, and, and because we, 00:25:16.997 --> 00:25:19.417 I don't know what this, like you do you society. 00:25:19.677 --> 00:25:22.597 Oh yeah. You can just drop like, well, God told me. And like, 00:25:22.737 --> 00:25:26.137 some people just expect everyone's like, okay, well can't say anything to them 00:25:26.137 --> 00:25:29.177 because God told them, you know, like, I don't know about you, 00:25:29.257 --> 00:25:30.557 but I've had some times in my life. 00:25:30.657 --> 00:25:32.917 Like I thought God said something to me and then come to find out, 00:25:32.997 --> 00:25:35.537 like, shouldn't be door dash and Taco Bell at midnight. 00:25:35.757 --> 00:25:40.257 Like, wait a second. I only have one time. 00:25:41.297 --> 00:25:43.417 Okay. One time. 00:25:45.137 --> 00:25:53.417 Wow. It also means that for Anabaptists, scripture has always been ingrained 00:25:53.417 --> 00:25:58.857 into the daily life cycle of people and, 00:25:59.717 --> 00:26:05.617 Scripture is not merely just a checkbox. I did my Bible reading for the day, and now I'm good. 00:26:05.737 --> 00:26:13.857 But a deeply passionate way of intertwining and engraving scripture upon every part of your day. 00:26:14.817 --> 00:26:18.477 Yeah. Are there ways that you see that? Man, I will tell you. 00:26:19.437 --> 00:26:23.577 I would almost say it's cyclical. 00:26:25.117 --> 00:26:29.517 Now you're using a $5 word. Nah, that's not a $5 word. That's at least a $2 00:26:29.517 --> 00:26:32.757 word. I don't know. I'm going to call it a dollar word. I don't know if that's $2. 00:26:32.977 --> 00:26:44.277 But anyway, I remember a time in my life and mine and Tara's marriage where we were very, 00:26:44.957 --> 00:26:48.077 oh, goodness, what's the word I'm looking for here? 00:26:49.237 --> 00:26:53.217 Very in tune with the word in our daily lives. 00:26:54.537 --> 00:26:57.857 It was easier before we had kids. yeah like 00:26:57.857 --> 00:27:00.637 i'm not i'm darn kids i know i'm not like your fault 00:27:00.637 --> 00:27:03.517 riley i'm making an excuse but i know it's not 00:27:03.517 --> 00:27:06.237 an excuse but it's it is what 00:27:06.237 --> 00:27:09.057 it is we're human right but yeah no i can remember 00:27:09.057 --> 00:27:15.117 specific times where like it was a lot easier to to bring the scripture into 00:27:15.117 --> 00:27:20.197 every every portion of your day absolutely everything that was happening and 00:27:20.197 --> 00:27:27.817 you know i i'm i'm guilty of of kind of losing that because of how busy things are. 00:27:28.077 --> 00:27:31.617 And, and yeah, I mean, it's a challenge for me to get back to it for sure. 00:27:31.817 --> 00:27:33.697 Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's, it's hard. 00:27:34.057 --> 00:27:37.557 Yeah. And I know like we've talked about this, like, I think I've, 00:27:37.597 --> 00:27:40.377 I know I've talked about this a few times in sermons and things like that. 00:27:40.517 --> 00:27:44.817 Like the idea of like placing scripture around your life to where it's like 00:27:44.817 --> 00:27:49.297 always, always close by you, you know, like Jess and I, we had this conviction, 00:27:49.417 --> 00:27:52.817 like there's scripture and I think every room of our house. 00:27:53.794 --> 00:27:57.954 Maybe not the upstairs bathroom. Probably should be. Probably should be because 00:27:57.954 --> 00:27:59.254 that's the bathroom where I go. 00:28:01.854 --> 00:28:04.054 Probably something about casting out demons. I don't know. 00:28:07.194 --> 00:28:11.494 But there's scripture in every room of our house just so it's present. Yeah. 00:28:11.954 --> 00:28:15.714 You know what I mean? Yep. And yeah, I mean, you can saturate it. 00:28:15.834 --> 00:28:16.774 I mean, it's easier never. 00:28:17.454 --> 00:28:21.514 Oh, yeah. I mean, you have it in your hand or in your pocket. 00:28:21.754 --> 00:28:23.674 You listen to Caleb all day. 00:28:24.174 --> 00:28:28.074 But you still have to seek it out. You still have to do it. 00:28:28.794 --> 00:28:35.374 Just having it there doesn't do you any good. Right. That is the pendulum swing, right? 00:28:35.674 --> 00:28:38.594 It's like either you can just read the Bible and walk away from it, 00:28:38.634 --> 00:28:42.674 or you can be surrounded by it so much that you never opened your Bible in the first place. 00:28:43.754 --> 00:28:47.674 The last time we talked about reading the Bible is we talked about, 00:28:47.814 --> 00:28:50.694 we got to unpack this one for a second, rocking horse theology. 00:28:51.214 --> 00:28:54.354 Oh, yeah. That's the first. Yeah. So are you familiar? 00:28:55.534 --> 00:28:58.874 I wasn't familiar until I saw it in the outline. Okay. 00:28:59.134 --> 00:29:05.554 So rocking horse theology is this idea that everything that you believe teeters. 00:29:05.674 --> 00:29:08.394 Or hobby horse. Hobby horse. Hobby horse. Hobby horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:29:08.654 --> 00:29:14.014 Everything that you believe, hobby horse, it goes back and forth depending on 00:29:14.014 --> 00:29:15.434 the situation and continue on. 00:29:15.554 --> 00:29:18.594 So you never approach the Bible as whole. Yeah. 00:29:19.154 --> 00:29:23.114 And so at some level, and that's what I love about Anabaptist reading in the 00:29:23.114 --> 00:29:25.634 Bible is it takes the whole book, right? 00:29:25.914 --> 00:29:30.194 Because so one of the things that you'll hear, I know the brethren and other 00:29:30.194 --> 00:29:35.254 Anabaptist groups too will say like, we don't have a creed because creeds become 00:29:35.254 --> 00:29:37.554 this, go into hobby horse theology. 00:29:37.554 --> 00:29:42.474 Depending on what the thing is, we say there is no creed but the New Testament. 00:29:42.654 --> 00:29:48.274 This whole thing governs our lives, specifically the New Testament. We accept it as a whole. 00:29:49.122 --> 00:29:53.302 And so hobby horse theology takes any subject and says, well, 00:29:53.622 --> 00:29:57.482 okay, I'm only going to read about, you know, what does it say about abortion? 00:29:57.942 --> 00:30:01.622 What does it say about gossip? And what's it say about slander? 00:30:01.722 --> 00:30:06.282 And those things start like a hobby horse that can tip it back and forth. Oh, yeah. Interesting. 00:30:06.742 --> 00:30:11.822 And depending on what you read, your theology becomes more or less progressive 00:30:11.822 --> 00:30:15.462 or more or less liberal or more or less conservative or more or less, 00:30:15.482 --> 00:30:19.122 you know, Middle Eastern or more or less Western, depending on what you're reading 00:30:19.122 --> 00:30:20.722 and how you're reading it. Wow. 00:30:20.982 --> 00:30:24.082 Hobby horse. Yeah, okay. It makes sense. Whereas an Anabaptist reading would 00:30:24.082 --> 00:30:25.342 say, read the whole thing. 00:30:25.502 --> 00:30:30.022 Yeah. And if you read the entire New Testament, then it will give you a full, 00:30:30.642 --> 00:30:34.662 clear understanding of the narrative of the Bible and what it says about everything. 00:30:35.802 --> 00:30:38.122 So if you want to know what God wants you to do about any situation, 00:30:38.262 --> 00:30:41.742 read the whole New Testament. All at once? All at once. Oh, man. 00:30:41.902 --> 00:30:43.202 I'm going to be busy tonight. Yeah. 00:30:43.962 --> 00:30:46.742 Chad GPT could probably whip it up for you. whip it 00:30:46.742 --> 00:30:50.262 up in like 15 seconds create me a three-minute 00:30:50.262 --> 00:30:53.202 track yeah yeah 00:30:53.202 --> 00:30:58.822 sure and those are the things that like the the scripture reading piece of anabaptist 00:30:58.822 --> 00:31:05.222 theology is just so anabaptist life and thought is so precious sorry this this 00:31:05.222 --> 00:31:12.022 might take us on a tangent okay but so i we're I know we're similar in the way our minds work. 00:31:12.162 --> 00:31:17.582 Like for me, scripture, like I've listened and I've heard so many songs, 00:31:17.882 --> 00:31:19.562 scriptural-based songs. Mm-hmm. 00:31:20.432 --> 00:31:26.112 When I hear a scripture read, I instantly think of the song related to that scripture. 00:31:26.332 --> 00:31:29.772 So what would your thoughts be 00:31:29.772 --> 00:31:35.912 from an Anabaptist viewpoint on surrounding yourself in Christian music? 00:31:36.032 --> 00:31:39.052 Because there's a lot of people who have come. 00:31:39.252 --> 00:31:44.572 You got the K-Love 30-Day Challenge you've heard of. But that's people's entrance 00:31:44.572 --> 00:31:47.212 into Christianity is through Christian music. Like, yeah, yeah, 00:31:47.352 --> 00:31:50.612 yeah. Just what's your thought on that as far as surrounding yourself with scripture? 00:31:50.832 --> 00:31:54.232 Yeah, I think it's a really good piece of it. I think it can be, 00:31:54.392 --> 00:31:57.892 again, like, because some of it can be artist interpretation. 00:31:58.132 --> 00:31:59.692 Sure, that's true. Right? That's true. 00:31:59.972 --> 00:32:04.012 And so, you know, and especially, like, early Anabaptists would have probably 00:32:04.012 --> 00:32:08.712 said, like, unless you're literally singing the words of the scripture in the, 00:32:08.912 --> 00:32:10.272 you know, as they come out of the Bible. 00:32:10.552 --> 00:32:14.612 For me, I think it's a piece. I think it's a really important piece, you know. 00:32:14.612 --> 00:32:17.452 But there's also like i will tell you i think 00:32:17.452 --> 00:32:21.312 some especially some of the new like praise and worship music is 00:32:21.312 --> 00:32:25.052 theologically elementary elementary 00:32:25.052 --> 00:32:29.612 and so that's why i think we have to be in the word and and sure you're in our 00:32:29.612 --> 00:32:32.672 brains like we are exactly like i'll hear a song and i'm like oh yeah oh yeah 00:32:32.672 --> 00:32:36.972 boom it's there right and even like one of the you know some of my favorite 00:32:36.972 --> 00:32:42.092 songs like take pieces of scripture and put them in there sure and so i think 00:32:42.092 --> 00:32:44.212 that's It's sort of like having the scriptures around in the house, 00:32:44.312 --> 00:32:46.232 like a really good practice, but that's not all we're doing here. 00:32:46.312 --> 00:32:47.892 No, that's not it. But yeah. Right. 00:32:48.092 --> 00:32:52.952 Right. And so, yeah, but I think it's all part of that, like interweaving and 00:32:52.952 --> 00:32:56.852 allowing the scriptures to literally influence everything you do throughout the day. Yeah. 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.840 And I know, you know, we've talked a lot, a lot with the youth about that, 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.760 about, you know, the scripture has something to say about everything in your 00:33:04.760 --> 00:33:08.340 life every day, day in and day out. Absolutely. 00:33:08.560 --> 00:33:12.060 We just have to seek it out. Right. And know. 00:33:12.340 --> 00:33:15.600 Right. And write it on the tablets of our hearts so that we know if you can't 00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:19.480 open your Bible right now, then it's written on your heart in a way that you're 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:23.500 like, oh yeah, I know that that's, I know that the scriptures say this. 00:33:23.500 --> 00:33:32.460 And like, like I said, I know like growing up memorization was very, like very key for us. 00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:35.900 And a lot of those I still have memorized to this day. Like, 00:33:35.900 --> 00:33:38.260 is that an Anabaptist thing? 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:42.680 Like memorization or just. I think it's just a. In general. In general. Okay. All right. 00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:45.640 I didn't know if it was an Anabaptist thing or. Yeah. Yeah. 00:33:46.360 --> 00:33:50.420 And it's funny because that's actually so the, the new Bible journaling that I'm doing for this year. 00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:52.640 Like that's one of the things you do every week is just try to memorize the 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.180 scripture every week. That's a lot harder now, isn't it? 00:33:55.540 --> 00:34:01.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I started easy. I picked out one that I had memorized that I'd forgotten. Okay. 00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:06.360 So I kind of got a jump start on that one. Okay. It's like repeating second grade. 00:34:06.600 --> 00:34:10.560 Okay. Not that I've repeated. Yeah, no, no, no. Can't prove nothing. 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:13.220 No. That show's smarter than a fifth grader? Yeah. Yeah. 00:34:13.640 --> 00:34:17.260 I think you could come in third place. 66% of the time. 00:34:19.540 --> 00:34:24.020 It's been fun. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We can roll on this one for a long time. That's good. 00:34:24.620 --> 00:34:28.900 It definitely made me think about some things that I need to work on. 00:34:29.080 --> 00:34:32.740 Yeah, for sure. We all have those, right? Yep. We all have those. 00:34:33.060 --> 00:34:36.400 Yep. Yeah, so next week we're talking about a faith that walks, 00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:40.000 and we're going to talk about the call to service and the ways that Anabaptists 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.940 do service, which is, I'm sure that's probably right up your alley, knowing you. 00:34:44.060 --> 00:34:47.220 That's probably going to be my number one, actually. 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:50.180 Yeah, knowing you, that doesn't surprise me at all. Yep. And so, 00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:52.020 yeah, it'll be it'll be fun. But yeah. 00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:55.500 So until next time, give us a shout. 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