Hey, my friends, this is Matt, this is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

I've been going to churches, a ton of them, like all the time.

I'm fascinated by churches from a historical, taxonomical point of view, like how did this

church turn out this way?

How does it connect to the Christian family tree?

I'm fascinated by the theology of churches.

What does it look like for you to believe this and then have a worship service?

How does that go?

I'm interested in trying to empathetically understand why people do it differently than

me would do it differently than me.

And I'm very intrigued by looking at how different churches think about people who are

outsiders to their tradition.

There are some churches that I've walked into cold, my friends, where I'm telling you,

I think they must have had hours upon hours of meetings.

Maybe had people like even secret shop their church so that they could remember back

to what it was like when they didn't go to church and when they'd never been there.

So they could think outside themselves and build so much of what they're doing with

the outsider in mind.

Now, some churches, like that's all they do is try to make it make sense to the outsider.

I'm not talking about, like I guess what we would call that kind of seeker style church

that was popular 10, 20, 30 years ago.

I'm talking about churches who are just doing their thing, like this is what we believe

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