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Oh, oh, I know what I was going to talk about. I know. When we prayed, here's what I heard.

Yeah.

Was clay, sheep, servant, child, friend, lover, remember we used to do the hierarchy of metaphors?

That's what came to mind.

Okay.

Was to talk about that.

Different, fresh, and it gives us a chance to make some comments about each sort of stage there.

So welcome back friends to the Ransom TARP Podcast, John Eldridge here with Craig McConnell. So honored that and deeply helpful to you in many ways and invite you to tell others, pass the word on and have

them tune in.

I have been invited to give a chapel talk at a Christian college and I've been thinking a lot

about it I've been praying a lot about it for a couple of reasons one because I

really want to offer what is most helpful and I just

I'm aware that I am walking into a hornet's nest there that you know there's a number of people that would love to find a reason to dismiss John Eldridge and and I don't want to provide them that at the same time, time you know there are things that I think I see about

contemporary Christianity and and Christian college and and what the students

they're experiencing, but I also can't just

charge in.

And so I've been trying to live in what Jesus said when he said, I only say what the

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