Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I know that there

are a bunch of you listening right now who've been a part of this thing since the very beginning.

So I want to give the special internet high-five to people who have been doing this all the way since the start.

I also want to say hey to everybody who's come along the way. the people who have been shooting me emails and telling me

that they powered through hundreds of episodes of this

conversation I think you're amazing I think it's incredible that any of you would take the

time in the middle of all the stuff you have going on to hang out with me for a chunk of time

every day to talk about the Book of Matthew.

I'm so grateful for those of you who are just jumping in now.

You can just pick it up with us right here.

It'll gradually make sense as you go along.

And at any point if you want to, you can go back to the beginning of all of it and play catch up as well.

I've heard from people who've done it both ways and whatever you want to do is awesome because it's the internet and

you don't have to do anything any certain way which is part of the beauty of this

format and the relationship we get to have together talking about the book of

Matthew I didn't write this I don't own this I don't understand all of this but I care about it and I can see that it's important

and that it's interesting and that it has shaped our world whether people believe there's a deity

behind it or not and so the goal of this project, once again,

is not for me ultimately to subversively wear you down and get you to think all the things I think

about the world and politics and how to read the tricky

passages and to believe all of my things religiously or to get you to not

believe the things you may be already but I'm not interested in any of that. What I am

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