Hello and welcome to the She Reads Truth podcast. She Reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day.

Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week.

I'm your host, Amanda Bible Williams.

And I'm your other host, Rachel Myers, and this is

week two of People in the New Testament, our five-week series studying stories of, well, people in the

New Testament. Y'all, we are joined today by Ellie Bonilla Jr. He's been a guest on the podcast

once before. Such a great guest. Ellie is an emerging leader in the next gen space. He has a book that came out in

2003 called Mixed Embracing Complexity by Encountering Your God-led Identity. Y'all,

this conversation is so good and it goes quick and it's wonderful. And honestly, let's just get

right to it. Well, welcome back, Ellie. We're so glad you're here. I'm glad to be here. Round two.

Round two. And round one was Advent, which is really special. And now, yeah, no, that's awesome.

Thank you. Well, welcome back. We're in week two of our people in the New Testament series, and it's exactly what it sounds like. We are reading stories of some of the people in the New Testament. And we've got quite a week here to look at together.

Quite a week. Yeah. It's like the all stars of the Gospels. I'm so excited. I mean, it's going to be tough for us to keep it within time, but we're going to do our best.

I know. I'm looking at this and growing, like, how do we cover all of these things? It's funny, when we recorded the seven weeks of people in the Old Testament, it felt very distinctly like, here's our order.

Like, it was like very much,

it was more chronological, like we were going through the stories of the patriarchs. And of course,

there were other stories in there that we included, but it felt more chronological, whereas

currently we're looking at these stories of people in the gospels. And so it's just like,

they're all kind of in here. And it's not necessarily like, they're all kind of in here and it's not necessarily like,

this was the order. So it's funny, like you asked before we hit record, like, what if we like, don't stay in order is okay if we jump around and I was like, I wouldn't know the order anyway. Yeah. Well, I think that's the beauty of the Gospels, right? Because all these stories are essentially happening simultaneously. You're jumping in and out and this person. They're all existing at the

exact way. Gospels, right? Because all these stories are essentially happening simultaneously. You're jumping

in and out and this person. They're all existing at the exact same time when in the Old Testament,

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