You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byas.

Hey everybody listen before we get started, as you know we have pastors for normal people coming up.

But some of you might be wondering what this course is about and who it's for.

So we invite the pastors who will be leading this course.

Josh James and Jennifer Basha to give us a little more information.

This course is designed for pastors who for various reasons find themselves reading the Bible in new ways.

And so they need to learn how to pastor from a new place.

This course is going to be for any pastor who is evolving in their views whether

biblically or theologically or even socially and also trying to address those issues in their churches

by using the teachings and trajectories from the biblical text itself.

This may also include pastors who are in the process of the construction in churches that still hold

more traditional views of the Bible and faith.

As a minister I know what it's like to preach and teach and lead while simultaneously going

through the process of having to unlearn and relearn either denominational or personal

theological commitments. Overall I'm excited about sharing my experiences and my love of scripture

with people who have struggles like I have had growing up in the American church and serving

in the church. We're always deconstructing something. We're always rethinking something.

You are not a heretic. The problem is not with you. The problem is with the foundations that have

been laid in American Christianity. The problem is the fundamentalist ideas that have shaped

within Jehovah's Witnesses. Here's the good news. This process of rethinking, of repackaging,

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