Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy 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 ten 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 be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

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

So in this episode four of a six part series, it represents a number of teachings that I did.

Back in 2012 in the fall, we challenged the whole church community where I was serving as a teaching pastor at Dorf Hope.

The whole church to read through the whole New Testament in 90 days and hundreds of people did it with us.

And we would gather at 6 a.m. 5 mornings a week to read it aloud together.

That day's readings.

And then on the Sunday gatherings we would get together and either Josh White, the other teaching pastor,

or myself would offer teachings connected to that week's readings.

So this represents a message where we were right smack in the middle of reading Paul's letters to the different churches that he planted.

And this is a message about how Paul's vision of how the good news about Jesus most becomes powerfully persuasive

when followers of Jesus are living with incredible generosity.

And specifically in the passage in his second letter to Corinthians, financial generosity is a powerful way of substantiating the claim that Jesus really is the risen Lord of this world.

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