Hey, everybody. Welcome to the You Are Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. I'm your host. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29 where we talk about anything and everything related to transforming the church. And once again, this week we're down a member. It's just you and me, Mary. How you doing?

It's just us.

I'm doing great, father.

Just us chickens.

I think Nick still works here.

I'm just not sure, right?

How you doing, bro?

Wherever you are, we love you and we miss you.

And in fact, we're really going to talk.

We want to unpack something that Nick shared with us in coming back from some of his work not too long ago

in an undisclosed diocese in an underground bunker.

But what's our topic today, Mary?

Yeah, Father John, so our topic today is the method of the master.

Ooh, with a huge footnote to Curtis Martin, right?

That's right.

It's a biblical model.

So we want to unpack that. But before we

dive then, Father, as always, let's open up with prayer. Indeed, in the name of the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Father, we continue to thank you for the grace of being alive right now

and for the fact that your spirit is so powerfully at work, trying to exploit the gifts that

you've given to us, both the natural ones and the supernatural ones, remind us again and

again that we're not alive by chance, that everything is in your hands, that there's no need to fear, and help us to be

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