Hey, everybody. It's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. And several years ago, I got asked to teach a bunch of homeschool parents, like a little homeschool get-together thing with a bunch of really talented moms and dads who were teaching their own kids. And they had sort of a little curriculum thing that they were using. It looked pretty smart to me. And they asked

me if I would come and lead this sort of annual training event that they do with all of these

homeschool parents and teachers and for, I guess they call it a co-op for the co-op they were doing.

And I said, sure, that sounds cool. Way to be proactive. That's very interesting.

Sure, I'll do it. And they were like, cool, you'll just have to travel to this other city far,

far away and go to a seminar so that you can be taught how to teach us. And I was like, what? But you asked

me, I'll show up your thing, but I don't want to go get trained

how to teach you the thing you asked me to know. And it was weird. I was like, all right,

whatever. I would just get out of town for a few days. I guess I'll go give it a try. And it

wasn't the best. It was not my favorite thing that I've ever sat through. And one of the reasons is because we

spent so much time on basic outlines. It's like, I got things I want to do. I don't want

a full day seminar on how to do an outline. And I'll never forget it. And maybe it was

super useful and maybe other people appreciated it. Maybe I didn't pay attention well enough.

Could be. But I remember them bringing us in, like all these other people who were going to

speak at this same event and other groups all around the country. And they're infantilizing us. Like they're teaching us,

all talks should have an introduction. Looking around, waiting for the punchline, it never came.

So we're going to start by working on introductions. In the introduction, you should try to establish

rapport with the audience and give them a sense of what you'll be talking about.

I was like, yeah?

I mean, yes, I know, right?

Like, I think we all know this.

And then, after lunch, we did a whole big session on the ending.

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