We're going to dive into some divine drama in the book of Acts and talk about risky faith,

radical love, and the willingness to kick comfort to the curb for the sake of the gospel.

Dr. Martin Luther King once lamented how the church used to be a thermostat that had

the power to change the temperature of culture, but how it was losing its urgency and efficacy

and was becoming a thermometer that simply measured the climate of culture.

I think it's time for Christ followers to turn off our passivity, turn up our spiritual

passion, and get to work fanning the flames of revival in this great, big, beautiful,

and broken world, don't you?

So grab a cup of coffee in your Bible unless you're driving or on the treadmill and come

hang out on the porch with us.

Okay, Al, since we're talking about the willingness to kick comfort to the curb and love people hard,

even when it is hard today, I thought it'd be appropriate to kind of shake things up a bit

format wise and begin our episode, chatting up back porch theology's version of dear Abbey,

our very own bell, Johnson, in this recurring segment we like to call ring my bell.

Okay, Bell, it is so much fun to have you back at back porch theology.

I've gotten so many messages and texts from people who said, I love it.

Because you're so approachable. I think in you, that's one of the things we've wanted to do with

this podcast is when people think theology, oftentimes they think, oh, that's this really elite,

esoteric subject matter that I can't understand. And that, that's not true at all. Theos, that,

that first part of theology in the original language refers to God. And then Lagos, the second

part of theology means conversation or words. So theology is just words about God, conversations

about God. And you have understandable conversations about God. In the, the first ring my bell segment,

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