Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we're talking about Matthew

chapter 4 and particularly we're hanging around on this one verse that seems so beautiful

and simple but man it's tricky when you think about it.

verse 19 come follow me Jesus said and I'll make you fishers of men.

I mean that sounds great. It's this cherished Christian turn of a phrase initiated by the

God become man for whom the religion is named, but how much of world history has been

shaped by this go tell other people evangelistic impulse of Christianity.

Now you want to see a Rorschach test right here right now?

Some of you who listen to this are like yes the world has been made beautiful

by the transmission of the gospel by people who hear this and have gone and communicated this truth of Jesus and people have been set free and given life and life eternal and forgiveness of sins and purpose by having an encounter with Jesus through

that truth being relayed by Christians who are following this evangelistic impulse that Jesus puts forth. But some of you are reading that Rorschak

print completely differently, I promise you, and you're just in there like, yeah, the world has been

changed by this impulse because Christians just can't keep their hands to themselves and people who claim Jesus as their God,

they get conquer and territorial and colonialism and look neither of those are really a fair or

complete characterization of what's gone down there at all.

And it'd be fun to at some point make some content.

It's like, hey, has Christianity been good or not?

And then I get to make my case for all the awesome things that have happened as a result of Christianity and I would have fun

Even owning all of the gross things that have come as a result of Christianity

Obviously I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think the net were positive but that doesn't mean

that I'm immune or blind to all of the or many of the misguided weird stuff that comes with a religion that is constantly

outwardly focused.

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