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This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

I want to say a quick thanks to Jason Stark and Taylor Terzik who produce this podcast

without their help, we'd be sunk.

So we're so grateful for both of them.

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or wherever you listen. And we hope you enjoy this episode. So, Colin, I started telling you before

our call that, or before we started recording, that I really appreciate your book,

God draws near, and I've recommended it to several people, and I'll be using it in a class I teach

on Divine Presence in the Old Testament, which I'm teaching in the fall. And yeah, I think it's fantastic.

A student used it in his thesis,

so it's already getting promoted by me.

So I'm glad that others get a chance to hear from you on this.

Well, thanks very much for that, Matt.

I'm honored and, yeah, really grateful.

And I look forward to continuing to you,

just how you yourself, but also how others respond to it.

Yeah, great. So you write that the present book re-centers biblical theology of mission on communion

instead of repair. So what is, could you talk about that re-centering on communion instead of repair?

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