Welcome to Inklings. I am Emily Bell Freeman, and I'm so excited to welcome you to a space where you and I get to experience a hint of something more together.

This is a community where we lean into discussions that will help us obtain a bedrock understanding of the doctrines of Christ.

Not overnight, but every day better.

Strength gathered over time. There is a place for you here. Looking forward to spending this

semester with you as we embark on a journey focused on becoming his.

Good morning, everyone.

Happy inklings.

So excited for today.

I always love this day. So much. Happy Thursday, everyone.

We have so much to talk about today, which will be so fun. And maybe some new people today

joining us, which makes it even more fun. We are going to be in just the New Testament

today and only for a second because if you're new here, what happens on this Thursday is the

first Thursday after conference, we kind of talk about the study and what the study is going to look like,

like what you can expect, what's happening every week, kind of the direction that we're going

to be going in. I'm going to talk to you about the workbook. Just today is an explanation

of how to get started with us and kind of an introduction to the study and then next

Thursday we will begin our class our institute class so what I think I want to do first of

all is just introduce you to what the study is going to look like

and kind of the direction we're going for the next six months what is going to happen.

And let's talk about the direction first. Let's like dive into what is the study, what's

the curriculum, what's going to happen. Then we'll talk about all

the goodies after that because we for sure want to talk about so many other fun things and we

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