So, Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and if you hung around

with me for any amount of time on the internet you may know you may remember that my story goes like this

I was raised around Christianity by super good parents who was still super good

parents but it was kind of that version of Christianity that was really built to

work super well and make a ton of sense in the mid to late 20th century and I got in on

it in the very late 20th century in terms of coming of age and starting to think about things for myself and like a lot of people

that got pretty tricky as you turned the page into the 21st century.

I think a lot of people figured out that there's a lot of beautiful

stuff about that particular expression of Christianity but also like I mean I don't know any

expression of Christianity from any era I suppose some cultural things get

tagged on and there's some stuff that maybe doesn't age well and that maybe at some

point in your life you realize whoa wait a minute I got to think this through a little bit more for me

it was maybe a little bit more than that I had a really tough stretch where

some stuff went wrong at church back then I thought it was all everybody else's fault with time. I think I see more my role in that and

Some stuff hurt real bad personally and the result was that clear sense of the presence and the reality of God

that I felt growing up that it just never been even tricky or difficult, almost

taken for granted. It stopped being there one day. It was a very tricky and difficult time. I don't think it was super mad at anybody. It was just, I don't know, it was hard. And I guess you can just read between the lines as to all the reasons that it might be or imagine all the reasons that might have been hard

But it was very honest and I didn't really go public with it or announce things to people or whatever but it's went through a hard time

that I think is similar to a hard time that probably a lot of you who are listening to this have gone through at some point in your faith as well.

It's not just a product of the moment in which

we live, I think, that the journey of faith is often kind of complex and it happens in phases and

chapters and I went through a dark one it was tough and it was a chapter of

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