Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to take

you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Anyone else not cool in high school because that was for sure me now those of you who

weren't homeschooled might have some idea that all homeschoolers are uncool, not true.

There are definitely cool homeschoolers, but I was not one of them.

And as I look back on my high school years, I can see some reasons why that was happening, but I can tell you this that my years

spent as the uncool left-out person have been so influential in my view of community today. So in one

sense I'm grateful for them though I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

But I really see those years spent

where I was left out or made fun of

as an opportunity for me to cultivate a heart for community.

And that is what today's podcast episode is about.

We're talking about how to cultivate community,

how to have a heart for hospitality and opening our door to the people in our world and in our

church.

Now if this is a struggle for you I understand completely as I said I was left out in high

school and even in college I really struggled with female relationships in particular

and now if you've met me and you struggled with female relationships in particular.

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