Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and by my count this is a year and we're on Matthew chapter 11.

We've been working on Matthew for a year and we're through 11 chapters. Hopefully that isn't discouraging to you.

That's encouraging to me.

Well, let me put it this way.

It's encouraging to me that the number of you

who are sitting there having this conversation

with me has grown as much as it has to such a tremendous

degree and it's even more encouraging that we're only through 10 and a half

chapters of the book of Matthew the book we've been working on the whole time,

and that more of you keep wanting to participate.

The reason that's cool is because any time you do a one-sided media like this, there's a degree of self-selection, there's a feedback loop, even if I don't

hear from you all that much, there is a feedback loop because if nobody's listening, I stop doing

it or I'm like, I just got to go way faster so maybe people

will be interested but when you're grinding through the material with the

ebb and flow of the deeply historical passages where we're off talking

about Roman emperors and ancient near eastern

magic practices and who knows what and then we get into deepwater theology speech

the next week and we're looking very closely to try to parse out what Jesus is saying

in this phrase or that phrase. That's a dramatic ebb and flow. It's a very deep dive and yet here we are with a whole bunch more of us hanging out

together having this conversation a year after we started then when we did

start so for those of you who were here on day one and you've been here every day since then,

I am giving you the gold star sticker of perfect attendance.

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