Hello and welcome to the She Reads Truth Podcast, where we open our

Bibles and talk about the beauty, goodness, and truth we find there.

I'm your guest host Jessica Lam. We get a lot of questions that she reads

truth about what we believe. So for this week's episode, I sat down with a

Mandan Rachel to talk about our love for scripture and our approach

sharing the Bible together. Let's get to it.

I'm really excited to take time today to talk about the why of what we do.

We spend time every week getting to open our Bibles with each other with guests,

with she's to talk about the scripture, talk about the reading plan that we're

studying as a community. And I love getting to do that. And I love listening to

you get to do it with our guests. But it's also really exciting to take a minute

and step back and look at the bigger picture of at She Reads Truth, what we do

on a larger scale and why we do it. So yeah, it's also one of our favorite things to talk about.

Yeah, because we love the work that we get to do. The first thing I want to talk about is

I know last week we talked a little bit about your personal need for what we do,

for community, for opening the Bible more. Yeah, but I wanted to start with,

what do you think the need is for so many other women? What's the need in our churches today

for something like She Reads Truth? Oh yeah, that's great. I mean, you think about like the

prophet Amos who described the famine in the land not as being a famine of food, but of the word of

God. There was no prophet, there was no prophecy, there was a lack of biblical literacy, so to speak,

in the Old Testament. And that is something that whether there's a famine or not, I think that

that's debatable, but I think that in many ways it's very true, even in our own homes that we have,

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