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

Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Welcome everybody to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.

Today we are talking about the Bible and Orthodox faith.

Not Orthodox like the correct way of believing, like Orthodoxy and Header-Doxy,

but the Orthodox Church, which is comprised of a lot of people.

I don't know. Do you know how big the Orthodox Church is?

I think they're seven.

They're seven, yeah.

Yeah. No, no, it's more than that.

I'm thinking of some Presbyterian denominations.

No, it's definitely more than it's big and it's also old.

That's sort of the main thing.

It's been around for a long time.

Very old.

And so we're talking to Brad Jersack, who's a reader in the Orthodox Church,

but also editor-in-chief of CWR Magazine, faculty member,

does a lot of teaching and has written a book called The More Christ Like God.

So we had him on today to talk about his Orthodox faith and his journey

through other denominations as a pastor through the years and what led him

to the Orthodox Church.

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