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Have you seen this new trend in journalism? I don't know if it's actually that new, but it's fairly new, maybe it's where the person who's doing the interview asks a question, usually of an athlete or a coach, but maybe sometimes a celebrity, maybe a politician, where they frame their questions

such that they tell the person they're interviewing how the things are and how they feel,

but then they basically just ask them to rate how much

they feel the way that the journalist just said they must feel.

Maybe this is confusing, I'm going to give you an example. So let's say that your favorite sports team just went and got a tough road victory. It was real scrappy, gritty victory, but they grind it out and they got one. then you got you're talking to the coach and the

interviewer says coach great win tonight how good do you feel right now about coming

into a difficult environment like this and coming away with the win.

See the way the question there is only, it just, I mean it's really like a 1 to 10 question.

Obviously you feel good. It was like a 7 or like an 8 and a half. How good is it? How worried are you right now, coach, about the chances

of making the playoffs? Another national championship. How proud are you right now of your teammates? And I'm just

going to tell you straight up. I think those are terrible questions. And yet,

when I read Nehemiah Chapter 5 and I got to the end of it, and then I read it again,

then I read it again, I kept coming back to one of those kind of questions.

And so I'm going to ask one of those kind of questions even though I think they're really terrible questions here it is ready in your brain

You can just rate this maybe on a scale of one to ten? I don't even know how you answer this here's a question

How much clout does Nehemiah have right now with the people who are rebuilding the walls?

Because it's a lot.

And if your answer is anything below a five, I'm sorry, we're in a fight.

Personally, it's a thing between you and me. We're in a fight. Personally it's a thing between you and me we're in a fight

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