I did this survey, and majority of them, like 70% of them,

stated that they were intimidated by doing solo Bible study.

And that, for me, was like, there's a need to help women get comfortable with their Bible and like themselves,

like to not feel like their understanding of God's word is dependent on someone else.

Ultimately, we are equipped to equip.

So if we are being equipped and yet there's a disconnect there

to where you don't even feel comfortable to go forward

beyond. That's a problem. And so that's really what it was. It was a burden to see women be equipped

and to feel confident in the call of being a disciple and disciplining others.

Portia Collins is a Bible teacher

and the founder of She Shall Be Called,

a non-profit women's ministry focused on Bible literacy.

She's also the author of a new eight-week Bible study with Crossway on the book of Galatians called Finding Freedom in Christ.

Portia, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

Thank you for having you, Matt. I'm super excited to be here.

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to talk a little bit about this study that you've written with Crossway, but also just hear more about

your heart for learning how to study the Bible and Bible literacy. And I just want to kind of go back

to your own personal story. So you describe your 20s as a period of your life characterized by

religious rulekeeping on the one hand and indulgence and sin on the other hand. So I wonder if you could

just take us back to that time in your life. And where were you at spiritually? What was your

background and how would you think about that time of your life now? Yeah. So I was a church girl.

And what I mean by that is I grew up in the church. My grandmother was the church pianist and my mother was

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