Welcome to this special episode of Bible Talk.

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Southern Seminary exists to educate, train, and equip gospel ministers for a lifetime of more faithful service. For more information, you can visit 9mark.org slash talk or sbts.org. My name is Alex Duke and with me are my two friends. Sam Amati and Jim Hamilton. Now, guys, today's a special episode because we are live before a studio audience. Now, we've done that a few times, you know, once in Florida, once here on

Southerns campus. Today, we are again on Southerns campus for the Pillar Intensive here in

Louisville, Kentucky. And these guys asked us to do a live episode of Bible Talk. But this

episode is kind of like doubly special or specially special. Because for the first time ever, after like 170-something episodes, we're going to talk about

a New Testament passage in full.

So this leads me to my first question.

You guys ready?

Are you ready?

Ready.

Is this about rules for interpretation?

No.

That's going to go sideways. Do you guys even know this about rules for interpretation? No. Because that's not going to go. That's going to go sideways.

Do you guys even know anything about the New Testament? Like, we've only talked about the Old Testament. Jim? This is going to be awesome. Sam? I'll do my best. All right. First Peter five. We're going to talk about First Peter five. Maybe the first five verses, maybe the first 11.

We'll see when the time in the hourglass runs out. 1 Peter 5. We're going to talk about 1 Peter 5. Maybe the first 5 verses, maybe the first 11.

We'll see when the time in the hourglass runs out. Why are we going to talk about this passage?

Well, as I said, we're here with a group full of pastors or aspiring pastors. And this is a great short passage on the nature of pastoral work.

Not really on the qualifications per se. In fact,

well, there are kind of few anti-qualifications. Don't do this. But this passage is just a beautiful

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