Hello and welcome to the Wednesday Bible study. Thank you for taking time to join us today as we

continue our ongoing study based on the book by J. I. Packer knowing God and today we will actually

be in session 17. I'm Rick Burgess if you're new to this. A co-host of the Rick and Bubba show,

which explains if you're watching on YouTube why you find me inside the Rick and Bubba studio.

Also director of themanchurch.com, themanchurch.com is a hub where you can go to get everything that

you would need to put together a discipleship strategy for the men of your church or community.

We're providing something for men's ministry that has been sorely lacking and that's resources

designed by men for men including you know 40 day devotionals and resources. We do have some

third party books that we also recommend from other men the Steve Ferrar and Tony Evans and Lance

Ingram and there's other authors that are there as well. But we have our own curriculum,

our own resources that we put together. The 40-week curriculum that came out last year is called

the pursuit designed to take you on a pursuit of Christ-centered masculinity. It's a 40-week curriculum.

We have around 157, 158 churches that are doing that. We have a handful of churches that when it

came out last March that we're still able to work through the year even in the pandemic, mainly

using Zoom and some other technology to get that done. And some of those have started into our

second 40-week curriculum, which is called real men based on eight men of the Bible,

five weeks on each. And it is not available for public consumption yet, but I should have a pretty

good update on that for you coming up Lord willing on next weeks Bible study. But just go to

themanchurch.com and you can find that information. Also let you know some things that we'll be doing.

One of the churches that's starting the second phase, the second year of our discipleship

strategy is a church in Opalaka, Alabama, first Baptist church. They're in the second curriculum

and I have the honor of speaking there for their second year of man churches. I'll be with Charles

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