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Welcome to the Journey Women Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Beelis. Wherever you are on your journey to glorify God, we are so glad you're here.

On the Journey Women Podcast, we'll come alongside you in the seasons and challenges of life to move you to know and love God in his word, to find your hope in the gospel, and to invest deeply in your local church as you go out on mission for the glory of God.

Today, we're talking to Jamie Dunlop about one of the things that we can all probably say contributes to weariness in our lives, dealing with difficult people.

Instead of running away from the relationships that drive us crazy, Jamie encourages us to pursue unity in Christ and to build genuine friendships across all of our differences as an opportunity to display the gospel's power.

I think you're going to find this conversation so practically helpful, and I can't wait to share it with you.

But before we go there, I just want to say a big thank you to those of you who support Journey Women Ministries by donating to the podcast.

With your help, we are coming alongside more women to move them to know and love God, and we are so grateful.

If you'd like to help us in our aim to move women to know and love God in his word, to find their hope in the gospel, and to invest deeply in their local churches as they go out on mission for the glory of God,

you can do so at journeywomenpodcast.com forward slash give.

Jamie, welcome to the Journey Women Podcast.

Oh, it's a delight to be here. Thank you, Hunter.

This is so much fun. I was telling you that I actually read your first book. Is it your first book compelling community?

That was my very first book, yes, other than my undergraduate thesis on bridge design, yes.

So quite a different piece of work.

Well, I read that in the context of our little church plant here in Northwest Arkansas, it's called compelling community.

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