The True Cost of Restoring a Jeep (and Following Jesus)… Plus Dirt Gives Away T-shirts—In the Garage with BT

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When BT found his dream restoration vehicle, a 1978 Jeep CJ-7, he had no idea just how much time, effort, and money it would cost him. But with his eyes focused squarely on the end goal, he kept moving forward, even when it was uncomfortable and difficult. Recorded live in his garage, he explains how the physical reality of counting the costs of this project directly mirrors the spiritual principle of what it takes to follow Jesus.

For the month of July, we’re reliving Brian’s 3-year Jeep restoration project, as chronicled on his YouTube show Garage Bible Study. With over 30 episodes dedicated to restoring his 1978 Jeep CJ-7, BT draws a straight line from physical work to spiritual principles. Track along with the entire project on YouTube, here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life and welcome to the garage here during July in the aggressive life.
0:07.5	We're going to look into some of the things have been important to me, specifically a Jeep, a 1978 Jeep CJ7.
0:14.8	It took me three years to restore it and finish it.
0:19.1	There's quite a story behind the thing. We'll get into that in the
0:22.0	midst of these episodes. People would ask me about what, what's the deal with the Jeep? What are
0:26.5	learning with it? And I did a number of things that were entitled Garage Bible Study. We're going to
0:31.2	run five different projects that I did where I have my hands on every single bolt, every single gear in the
0:39.9	entire Jeep, everything, everything, everything. My fingers were on everything all over the place
0:46.2	and rebuilt that thing from the rust all the way up. And there's actually spiritual metaphors and
0:52.3	truths that are at work in everything that I experienced.
0:57.5	And I'm going to look at five of them here in the month of July.
1:00.4	So let's get started.
1:02.2	Great to have you on The Aggressive Life. All right, we're going to get to the garage here in a second.
1:22.4	But first, how about a chance to win something free for you?
1:27.0	That's right. This is dirt. I'm the producer of
1:29.4	the aggressive life. I'm normally over there in the corner behind the soundboard, but for the
1:33.1	month of July, I'm popping into episodes and you don't know where I'm going to be. Am I going to be
1:36.9	at the beginning, in the middle, at the end, where am I going to be? I'm popping in to give away free stuff because why not it's summer let's give some stuff away for free this
1:45.4	week i got a whole stack of five marks of a man t-shirts i'm actually wearing this shirt right now
1:51.0	it's got the hash marks on the front on the very back of the shirt it's got the marks listed out
1:56.5	this was a great t-shirt i wear it all the time i love it and i want And I want to give one to you. How do you get one? Go to Apple Podcasts, search for The Aggressive Life with Brian Tom and leave us a rating and a written review. The rating is one through five stars. Be honest, pick what you think. And a written review could just be like one sentence. What you think about the show. These things help immensely
2:17.8	so much to get the show in front of new listeners and they really, really matter. Help us out by doing
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