Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,

and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

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and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go.

It's everybody's favorite podcast guest, Nick Connolly, back on the pod. Welcome.

Hi. That's my intro. I think it's presumptuous to say that I'm everyone's favorite. I do think you are everyone's favorite. You have great people. Quick stats. Yes. You have great people. Well, it's an honor to be here. I knew you had a heavy week this week and so I was going to try to release you from the podcast. Yes. And then I was talking, we were talking about in our office yesterday and I asked

Anna and Katie and I was like, you know, what should I do? Because I don't want Nick to have to do a podcast

with me. And I just, you know, I knew you had a big week. And they were like, sorry, he has to do it.

Everybody loves them. We did pivot, though, because we were going to do a pretty heavy-ish episode.

We were going to do an episode called, like, what happens when Christians disagree?

And the truth is, I planned that months ago.

Yeah.

And then in the last few weeks, there have been a lot of Christians disagreeing.

Yes, but it is not historically new.

No.

Yeah.

So I should. Christians always be disagreeing. Yeah, which is, yeah. So I think what happens when, well, we have thousands and thousands of years. Yeah. So. Well, what I'd like to do today instead is do a version of our date-night question game because we are big date-night question people. So I have five questions that I have not prepped you with. And also, like, I had no idea. The theme, like, I had no idea what we were doing. Right. This is great. Yeah. But can we do a preamble? Sure. Because here's what happened. I appreciate that you said that. Christians have been disagreeing for a really long time. Yes. You know, I mean, you read those early church mothers and fathers and the creeds and the councils. They would go to blows physically. They thought there was a heretic in the house. They would fight them. Yes. And we are not advocating for that. We're certainly not advocating for that. But if you're a Christian right now, especially in America, who's like, oh my gosh, there's so much dissension. There is. In fact, you're not wrong.

But it's always been there. Yes. It's just now it's on the surface. We just have more access to it. Yeah. I think that maybe it wasn't like as bad in the 90s, and I think it's just like everybody was watching friends or something, you know? I don't know. Nobody talked about.

The Christians didn't talk about politics as much as they do now.

I'm sure they did.

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