If you want to have an incredibly fruitful discussion with other fathers, you know,

reading through Proverbs or Ecclesiastes or any of the wisdom literature is really, really an

easy win.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Beth Key,

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What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of five-minute fatherhood. Today, the question is how to start a father's midrash. Now, I first want Jeremy to define that term in a second because I think we use that as insider language sometimes on this podcast. But what does that mean? I think the distinctive, it's similar maybe to a Bible study or discussion, but there is a difference and a distinction that I think is why we use that word. That's really important. But this also came from a question called a question from our five-minute fatherhood group where he said, we're coming up on this fall group small semester, or geez, fall small group semester at church. And I'm looking to do something a bit different. I'm trying to get my three closest guy friends together for a Bible study every other week. But I've been struggling to have this be a priority for them. Jeremy, I love the idea of the Monday Bible study or the midrash that you do. How do you get that started? So yeah, Jeremy, how would you answer that question? Yeah, so we've started a lot of these, and we just call them fathers midrashes around the city of Cincinnati. And, you know, a big part of doing this is

really keeping it super simple. Like these are literally zero prep for me. Ours is now on Thursday

night. And so 8 p.m. every Thursday night, there's about 10 guys that come over. It's nice and

summary out. So it's my front porch. It's one of my highlights of my week. Jeff's joined us for

some of these movies. They're really fun. APM's late for me, but it is a blast. Yeah, exactly.

But it's really, it's really a great, a great experience. It's super simple, you guys. And if you want to

start one, basically the formula is that you pick a book of the Bible or a whole

section of the Bible.

We've done a whole year in the Torah, which is Genesis through Deuteronomy.

Right now, we're going through the book of Romans.

We're about to go back in the Old Testament.

And what we do is we just read a couple of chapters.

And literally the way we do that is like, I just start. I pray. I have like snacks and drinks out. And we're all just hanging out. And okay, guys, we're going to read, you know, like we just did this on Thursday night, Romans 12 and 13. And so I'll read, you know, a paragraph or so. And then it'll just kind of go around the group and everyone reads

something like a paragraph by the time it gets around to me again, it's usually we're done.

And then we just sort of like, I say, okay, you know, what's due out to you guys?

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