I am delighted to welcome back to World Outreach in Middle Tennessee, Eric Mataxus.

And I'm delighted to be welcome back. I love it here. Thank you.

Good to have you in Hillbilly World. Oh yeah, sure.

You've got a new book.

Letter to the American Church. You might as well jump right in.

I read a preview or at least a few

chapters of it early and it's it's an important book for right now. I have to say I

have absolutely never written anything like it. I've never written a book that I felt the

Lord called me to write this now. I've never I've never done that before. I mean I feel you know a sense in everything I write that God

wanted me to write it but there's something about this book that's very different than anything

I've ever written before it's there's an intensity and an urgency to it.

And I do not say that to sell books.

I say that because that is the God's honest truth.

That where we are now is a horrible moment in our history and that

God is trying to get the church to speak not to be silent and I said I absolutely have to write this to the best of my ability and say what I think the Lord wants to say because it's not about what I want to say.

Believe me when you title something letter to the American

Church, you know, you don't want it to be what I think because you're daring to, you know,

sound like, you know, letter to the Philippians or letter to the, this is like, what does God want to say?

So I took it really, very seriously with tremendous humility daring to write something like this and trying to get it right.

So there you go.

Well I'm impressed because if you're watching this podcast you can see the cover but I want you

to see the breadth of this book you know usually Eric writes these mammoth toms and you can read an Eric

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