Maybe you're listening and you're thinking, gee, I wish I had a group of friends like that.

Well, you know, if you're a kind of a lonely place in your life right now, why don't you just let this be your group too?

Well, welcome everyone to the very first Joyce Meyer's Talk It Out podcast,

where Joyce teaches the Word of God in her practical no-nonsense way,

and my friends and I talked through the real stuff of

living it and hold nothing back. Today Joyce is here to introduce this whole

concept and to get us rolling. I'm Ginger Stockey with Jay Williams and Aaron Clueley.

We'll tell you a little bit more about ourselves because sometimes you just need to

talk about life with your girlfriends, so consider yourself one of us now and let's talk it out.

Okay.

So Joyce, we're so excited to be beginning this.

Well, I think it's good for a number of reasons.

One of the things though that keeps coming to me is that

four or five different people can look at the same scripture and each one gets something

maybe a little different out of it or a different perspective.

And I just really want to encourage people to be part of a Bible study

or to even use some of the same material that we're using and invite a few people into your home to have a Bible study.

You know, we had a home meeting for years and years and years when I first started my ministry and

that's really some of the greatest times that I remember because real church is

not about just going and watching somebody else do something.

Yeah, it's about being involved and of course when somebody's just teaching or

preaching from a platform you can't ask a question, you can't make a comment, but in a

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