This is the Bama Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we try to evaluate the great takeaway from this five session journey through the Bible and our world of faith.

We talk about the four pillars of Bama and try to imagine a world where we shuvah and partake in some of the same things those early followers did thousands of years ago.

Where we shuvah, good reference. What does that mean Brent? To return. Return. Repent. Return. Yeah, absolutely. We want to figure out the things that we need to get out of our system and the things that we need to keep. Things we need to do again.

There are probably some brand new things, some things for our day alone. But I'm really thinking about what are the things that have always been there, at least when we look at a recipe for success in the movement of God? What are those things that make up that recipe? What are those ingredients?

Let's see what we'll look at today. So we're finished with the journey, Brent, not with the podcast might you. More on that later in our next episode. Do not skip the session five cabs. Do not. You will be sorely disappointed.

But we have finished this journey, this journey through history. Over the course of every year, we started this one 2016. I mean some people have done this in a matter of months or weeks. Come through this whole journey.

And the podcast began 2016. Yeah, I've been studying Bay Moss since 2013. Wow. You've been developing the material since what 2008. Yeah. So this has been a process. What a journey. So over the course of all that time, we have traveled from in the beginning, bear a sheet, Barat Elohim to this very day today.

We have just spent the last few episodes wandering through post biblical history, session five, figuring out how we got to where we are out today. Well, good news. You are here.

And that's one of my favorite teachers likes to say if you're here today, you're here today.

Which is like, well, what a stupid statement. Say anything about it. And it's like, I like that. You are here. You are here today. And I'd like to summarize what I believe I learn from this whole journey.

What have I learned as I've what have I been trying to teach really as I crafted this body of work here in this podcast.

And the same way that I like to summarize like the trips that I lead with my students, I want to try to do that here at the end of this journey as well. If you come with me to Israel and Turkey, well, we'll spend you know, whatever 12 days together, I'll try to summarize that experience.

I'd like to summarize this long journey through Bay Ma.

As I look at the early church, a church couched in a context of first century Judaism, I see four things that stand out to me that I saw not just in the early, not just in the first century church, but I saw them in different ways all throughout the scriptures from the very beginning.

So I want to talk about these. I call them the four pillars of Bay Ma and it's it is a tongue in cheek reference to which pillars Brent and the four pillars of hell and four pillars of hell and listen, if Alexander great can have four pillars, so can I not that I'm equating myself to Alexander the great, but all the greatest things have four things.

Apparently he gets four pillars. So do I. All right, here's my pillars. First one, number one, the text. By the way, if you're going to chance to see me if I ever come to your neck of the woods, doing a weekend event.

There is often in my weekend events, I'm doing some version, some extended version of these four pillars, like a two hour version. Yeah, or even sometimes like a whole weekend, like we'll start Friday, we'll spend all day Saturday, we'll even sometimes do a Sunday morning, sometimes I'll do a whole weekend retreat with these four ideas as kind of our main talking points.

So come join us if you're going to chance to because we're just going to skip a stone across them today in our episode. But pillar number one is the text. The first century Jewish world of Jesus was a world deeply committed to the text. Hope that's not surprised any listener who has made it this far.

They loved their text, teaching their children how to memorize the entire Torah at a very early age and then much much much of the rest of Tanakh. They had a working knowledge of God's commandments that we can hardly begin to understand.

Without the printing press, this oral communication and commitment of God's word to memory would prove invaluable to an entire culture of people devoted to following God.

Unfortunately, when we lost our connection to our Jewish heritage by rejecting the Jewish identity upon which we were built, we didn't just lose relationships with the Jewish people. That would be bad enough.

Even worse, we lost the written word of God as well. Not like literally because we have the Bible, like we think we've done great because we've preserved the Bible and we have the Bible and we have the Bible. But we lost like the Bible Bible.

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