Oh, Hey everybody Tim Stafford, Mike Erie here. We are grateful. We are grateful. We are at the Vox Podcast and we're grateful you're tuning in today.

Thanks for your time. Thank you for your interest in what's going on. We are're in a good mood today although Tim I have to say I shouldn't say we're in a good mood I should say I'm in a good mood

Tim prior to coming on air said that he was angry and what was it? Angry and

what was it? Angry and tired? I don't remember which words I used angry and tired sure yes yes and what are you

angry and tired at you know I've been having struggles with church in our area and trying to figure out the

whether to jump ship or how to be the most constructively involved.

But as I said to you I'm very angry and tired in this season with church and with so much just happening in our country.

Yeah, but I'm also very hopeful.

Yeah, why hopeful?

I think because I'm seeing tangible points in the things that I'm angry with that for me that's what's helpful is if I can see something why it exists the way it does how it got off track

How it is functioning improperly then I can see like oh well then here's where that change needs to be made

to bring it back on course or yeah so that's why I've been telling you

why I'm very excited for the series because I think that if anyone's going to teach us how we should be doing

this correctly it might be our Palestinian friend.

Our Palestinian friend yes this this very kind olive skinned fellow, who turns out to have a lot to say about life.

So welcome, welcome to the podcast. Seriously, we're so thrilled to be whatever part of your life. We are in, we're looking at the sermon on the mount where we've got some interview ideas for people

that are going to kind of contribute.

We're still going to be interviewing folks of course.

But the last couple of weeks have been sort of setting the table a

bit for what Jesus is doing. The claim that Jesus Lord is a political claim. The

kingdom of God is a political claim, the kingdom of God is a political entity, but when we hear the word political,

we've been decipaled into partisanship, Republican, Democrat, left, and right right and so on.

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