Hey everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, 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 20 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 all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

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

Okay, in this episode, we're going to be diving into the third of a six-part series. These were

a bunch of teachings that I gave as a part of a larger project.

When I was a pastor at Door of Hope Church, we challenged the whole church one fall to read

through the whole New Testament in 90 days.

And it was awesome.

Hundreds of people did it with us.

We gathered at 6 a.m. five mornings a week to actually just read it aloud together and then to

learn about it a little bit more. And then on those Sundays for those three months, we

explored key passages and ideas from the previous week's readings. And so this teaching

represents the book of acts. And it was a message I gave both on the meaning

of witness, what the New Testament means, what the apostles meant when they used the word

witness, which is a little bit different than how modern Western Christianity has come

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