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Hello and Happy New Year, albeit one still being lived in the shadow of the present pandemic here in early 2021,

but I'm Justin Briley, Premier's Theology and Apologetics Editor

welcoming you to another edition of the Ask-NT Write Anything podcast brought to you by

Premier SBCK and Entireite online.

And today on the show we're looking at questions you've sent in on Ecclesiology, the local church and

denominations.

And this is of course the first episode of 2021.

Also our 50th episode of the podcast, a bit of a special occasion.

And thank you so much for being part of the listening community and for the, well,

hundreds of questions now that we've been

able to tackle over the last couple of years. We've also had some lovely comments and

reviews of the podcast as we've approached this 50th episode to some of the ones recently posted.

Big Tommy said especially during these times when churches are closed because of the pandemic.

The gentle and wise words of Tom Wright are so welcome and needed.

With many episodes I find discussion is on questions I myself have been pondering

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