Friends to the Ransom TARP Podcast, I'm John Eldridge and I am hosting a audio series that we are

broadcasting for the very first time.

Old recordings that go back to 1997 when Brent Curtis and I were

writing the book, The Sacred Romance, and Teaching and Speaking on it.

Found those tapes down in the basement and thought it would just be an incredible

series here to offer again to our friends and offer to many many of you who have

never heard this and never had a chance to hear Brent Curtis teach.

Last week, Brent was speaking on Less Wild Lovers here in our eighth session.

This week, I'll be speaking on life on the road.

The question at this point is simply what difference does all of this make anyhow?

Right? I mean, what do you make of all this?

What does this look like as it is played out in real life? And to answer that, I want to go back to Eugene Peterson's comment that in this time in the church's history we need the artist more than we need the theologian.

I almost want to say, gosh, to see what this looks like let me just give you a list of movies and some books to read and you know I mean go watch Brave Heart, go read Pilgrim's Progress, you know, watch the full version of Enchanted April.

Those of you who haven't seen Titanic, go see that.

Go find stories that show you how this is lived out.

They cannot possibly do this in a J Evans-Pritchard format.

Oh, it's very simple.

I'm gonna boil the whole thing down for you now

in three steps.

In fact, if I said that right now, that's where I took things right now, you would feel betrayed.

Wouldn't you?

You just can't do that.

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