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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors,

and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear a message from Nancy Guthrie, originally delivered

at TGC's 2022 Women's Conference.

We are here to talk about putting passion and personality into our teaching.

And so perhaps a good way to start is to define what I mean and don't mean by those terms.

Okay?

Here's what I don't mean by passion.

I don't mean teaching that is overly emotional.

Now, you're going to hear one of my points later that I want you to put emotion in it.

So I don't mean there's no emotion.

But I think you know what I'm talking about, don't you?

Teaching that is overly emotional.

And oftentimes when it's overly emotional, that leads to me feeling emotionally manipulated.

Oh, I hear lots of um-hmm, right?

Like, they're trying to make me feel whatever that emotion is and I'm kind of a rebel.

You can't make me.

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