Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well this is the three part series that represent teachings I did a number of years ago

on key practices that have marked the lives of followers of Jesus throughout history

and also in all different traditions of the church.

And that's because these are life habits and practices that we find advocated and practiced

by Jesus and the apostles going back to the earliest roots of the Christian movement.

And so this last life habit, the teaching is called solitude and community.

Most people are familiar with the practice of the follow of Jesus that's important that

I should be connected to a group of people who are also trying to follow Jesus.

It's called church or community.

But also in the New Testament we find advocated a commitment both to being with other people

in a church community but also with opposite to regular rhythms being alone and having

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