What's up everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and usually,

I like to open with some kind of charming story from childhood or pop culture reference

or some kind of anecdote that gives us a starting point, that common story, to work off of

that is in some way analogous to what we're going to be looking at in the book of Matthew,

which is what we do here, by the way, for those of you who are new, we're working our

way through the book of Matthew, one little chunk at a time.

But today, we come to a passage that I think bears a different approach to getting into

it, because this is one of those deeply personal passages that gets right to the heart of us

and our relationships.

So I want to do a thought exercise, I apologize in advance, this is going to bring back up

some difficult memories probably for you and will not be the most fun thing you do all

day, but I hope that it will be helpful before all is said and done.

Thought exercise A, I would appreciate it if you would pause this podcast and reflect

on the last time you had a relationship go sideways and then get better.

Think through the anatomy of it and how it got better, and then we'll pick it back up

here in just a second.

Welcome back, thank you for doing that with me, thank you in advance for continuing to

trust me as we do part two of this thought exercise.

Now I want you to pause and reflect on the last time things went sideways in a relationship

and then did not get better and still aren't better.

How did that relationship break and let you pause and think about that for a second?

Acknowledging that everybody's different and every conflict is different, my guess is

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