Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and have you noticed the evolution of the word

Literally over the last it's been a long time now. This is not a fresh but I don't on 20 years 30 years

It's become a thing where when you just want to

emphasize a point that you're making, even if your point is entirely

figurative or metaphorical, you can just add literally to the front. I am

literally going to talk about the

elephant in the room. Well the funny thing about that statement is

unless there is literally an elephant in the room, you literally aren't going to talk about an elephant in the room. You literally aren't going to talk about an elephant in the room.

Gonna get pedantic for a minute.

What you're actually going to do is literally have a difficult conversation about a metaphorical elephant that is symbolic of a big issue everybody knows

is present but that everybody's been avoiding talking about.

Literally that conversation is going to happen and

literally that figurative expression helps to illustrate it. Well, the reality is

that language is tricky and hard and especially if you're not a native English speaker.

Dude, stuff like that can really trip you up.

My wife tutors English, she volunteers, she helps people who move to this country and need to pass English tests

and learn the language well enough to work or to get into school.

And she's working with a student right now and some of these colloquialisms like that

where you're messing with the literal and the figurative is really really tricky for

them and I totally understand that. Well, likewise when you look back a couple thousand years and you come to key

passages in the Bible that set a huge precedent for the direction that all of

churches going to go, all of Christianity is going to go forever and your a couple

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