Friends, welcome to the Ranzan Har podcast, John Eldridge, in the studio this week with

Morgan Snyder and I was just reading a paragraph from the opening chapter of Waking the Dead.

Which is an invitation to clarity.

And we've got a fun thing we want to do today.

We're gonna riff a little bit.

We just re-released, Waking the Dead, with some new content and a beautiful new design to it.

And we thought it'd be fun to come in the studio and talk a little bit about this message and its

place in our lives and even a little bit of its history.

Morgan I was thinking this morning, we had a small group that met at our house on Chok Cherry, which is now your house on Choke Cherry. A little bit of trivia for

our audience there. Down there on the on the lower level and there is about there's about eight people, ten people that would meet in a small

group every week and that was where this book was born. We were trying to

figure out how do you live in redemptive community?

How do you offer to one another, especially the healing and breakthrough that the scriptures like, you know, so clearly shout and

proclaim that is part of the Christian life and that's where that's where the four streams were bored. You remember those days?

M messy and beautiful.

Those are the only two words. I think I'm done. That's it. Messy and beautiful.

Yeah, it was kind of a disaster, but it was a beautiful disaster. Small groups are messy and getting deep into people's lives but here's what we would do

gag we would get together every week and this was a very age diverse group we had you know

singles right out of college and we had young married and we had some older folks in there

and folks have been married several decades and and some singles that were older as well and so it's this wonderful blend and what we would do is each week

someone would tell their personal story and kind of tell me your story want to hear your story and then the group would gather around and we would kind of interact with the story and we'd intervene and we would

We would we would bring to them what became the message we call the four streams.

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