Cliff and Stuart Connectly. Thanks for coming on the show.

Thank you. How did I do? Did I get it right?

Awesome. Nailed it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good, good, good. Um, we're going to dive right into

the deep end here. What is, if you had to summarize, the ultimate two-sentence blurb summary

of what Christianity is all about. What's its main message?

That God created us to love him with our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbors ourselves.

At times we've done it, at times we haven't. When we don't, that's called sin.

And it leads to a consequence, separation from God, death, and hell. But God loves us so much that he sent his only son, Jesus, to bleed and die on a cross, to forgive us, to offer us a free gift, grace, forgiveness, and eternal life. And now, as we put our faith in him, he gives us that gift and we begin life with him now and for eternity.

And that gift has a lot to do with forgiveness for the sorry state that we find ourselves in.

Now, what I really want to begin by digging into is, firstly, why we're in such a sorry state,

whether it's our fault, and then also what it means for this Jesus figure to be coming along

and forgiving us of our sins. So the way that you just

described the fact that we were created for some purpose, which is to love God, but we so routinely

don't do that. What's your analysis of why that's the case? Why people are in need of this

Jesus figure to come along and save us? Well, we see it across the country right now with what I would

call a revival. We might define revival differently, probably would all three of us, but there's a

God-shaped hole that every single college student I've seen truly has. And there's all of a sudden

randomly this pervasive desire to fill that hole.

And whether it was the wake up call from COVID with a lot of suffering that came from there,

whether it's where our culture is at right now and just the suffocation that's going on with

busyness, with technology, you name it, they are getting rattled to the point of saying,

wow, I need something that really called me into a higher standard, but I'm also in a high

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