Hey everybody, what's happening? It's so good to be with you again. And it's so good

to be living life with you. Thanks for taking the time out to listen. You know, I used to

think that this quote was from the Bible, but actually I believe it's from Socrates.

He said about 2500 years ago, he said this, the unexamined life is not worth living. And how

true that is. And sometimes I think we're grinding away at life so much that it's good

to stop, take the breaks, you know, hit the breaks and reevaluate. It's like, what are

we doing here? But more importantly, why are we doing it? And I'm seeing that an iteration

of that in the church. If you've noticed it on TikTok, if you're on TikTok or social

media, there's this, these people that call themselves X-vanjellicles, I guess they're,

they've left the church or left the faith for whatever reason. And to me, I'm like, yeah,

yeah, you can say it's sad, but it's kind of encouraging. It's like, yeah, it asks questions.

I mean, I believe God is big enough to answer those questions. I mean, if you can make

a bunny rabbit, I think you can handle some of the biggies. So I wanted to kind of dig

into this phenomenon. And I have a friend of mine who's recently left our church and

some crazy things have been going on over there. And his name is Alink. Alink, the X-vanjellicle,

and I just wanted to touch base. Hey, Alink, dude, are you there?

Yeah, I'm here. I guess it's good to hear your voice. I mean, I heard the voice of a so-called

Christian. Well, I mean, I don't know what that means, but I know that I haven't seen

you in a while. Some things have been going on. I know that there was something that happened

to the church or maybe a couple things. And just just kind of give us your point of view.

And what are you going through in this part of your journey, man? I mean, it sounds like

you're in a deconstruction phase with your own faith. Well, that's an understatement, buddy.

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