Hey everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well, this is the fifth of a six-part series that represents a number of teachings

that I did years ago at Door of Hope Church.

We challenged the whole church to read the New Testament in 90 days.

And hundreds of us did.

And we gathered at 6 a.m. 5 mornings a week to read the day's readings aloud together,

to talk about them.

And then in the Sunday gatherings, which is where these teachings

come from, we would pick on key themes and ideas from that week's readings and unpack

them. And so this is a message from the book of Hebrews near the end of the book. And we're in

chapter 10 of the letter to the Hebrews, exploring these really cool images and ideas and

challenges connected to what it means to gather as a community of Jesus' followers as a regular

basis and to commit to each other. Being a part of a church community goes in and out of

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