I have this whole master plan that I put together sometimes it's even weeks ahead of what we're doing and it's all this stuff about okay I want to cover this and then I meticulously want to work us over this direction

But also you all are really smart and sometimes you've made me change my plans a little bit in terms of the order of things.

So here's the deal. My goal was to kind of work us through this whole story about the calling of the first disciples in Matthew,

get through the end of the chapter, and then go back and look at now how we're

just starting to diverge from the story over in Luke and kind of break down some of the comparisons

and consider why Matthew handles the account of the calling of the

first disciples a little bit differently than Luke does. But you filled up the sub-reddit with all

kinds of great comments and questions, so my stupid plan we're just going to

break it down right now and as I am increasingly in the habit of doing I like to go and

grab a friend when we interact with questions from the subreddit because I can and it's fun.

So this is my friend Jeff Foote.

Jeff you there?

Jeff would you like to explain to everyone why you are ridiculously famous but nobody knows

it on this podcast?

The bumper music that you're using came from an album that I recorded and should be out in a couple of weeks.

Yes it did.

All the music on this podcast is completely original.

Also, if any of you watch the YouTube channel,

the 10 minute Bible hour,

I did a video where I went to an evangelical free church, and that was also my friend Jeff's

church, and so he's been over there as well. So Jeff, let's take a swing at this.

Why do you think Matthew just bl blitzes through the calling of the first

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