Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. I'm Tanya Wilma. And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now we are in our Christmas

series, but starting in January, we're going back to the basics and guiding you through the

first books of the Bible.

I'm really excited about this.

We'll be starting in Genesis.

So invite a friend to go on this journey with you

starting on January 1st.

I recently wrote an article that went moderately viral, at least by my small-scale

standards, and I was tempted to feel good about myself until I looked at the analytics. Despite being shared by hundreds and hundreds of people,

hundreds and hundreds of times,

only 70 people had actually clicked the link to the article.

That means that at the most, only seven people had actually read the thing

that they were either celebrating on their Facebook page

or in some cases defaming on their Facebook page. They were quite

literally judging me judging that article by the headline and nothing else.

And at first this kind of frustrated me until I realize that I do the same thing all the time.

I read a sensational headline about a story

and I think I know everything that happened.

If I actually sat down and read the article, I'd probably realize that this event was a lot more complicated and nuanced than the headline let on.

Or this happens in real life too.

Someone tells me what another pastor or another friend did.

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