I love the Bible. And it is such a great privilege to have weaseled my way in to a vocation

where I get to study and unpack the Bible and have insights on my own that I could share

with people as such a staggering gift. It all feels like so much fun. I regularly pray and I'm just like, God,

thank you so much that, I don't know, I get to tell stories about Jesus and someone like

keeps food on my table for that. That's amazing. It's amazing. Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology to Raan.

My guest today is Tyler Staten, who is the lead pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon,

where he took over as a lead pastor for John Mark Homer.

He is passionate about living in prayerfully and relationally.

Tyler is the author of After Amen, The Famer Strange, Pr praying like monks, living like fools, and searching for enough. Those are all different books, not like one really long, weird title of a single book. I've never met Tyler before this interview, but I've always heard amazing things about him from people that go to the church, from people that know him personally. And I was just really blown away at his wisdom, his humility, and his intentionality.

This is a really thoughtful conversation.

Really loved hanging out with Tyler.

This interview, and we did hang out, this interview was recorded in person in Portland, Oregon.

So if you're listening to the podcast, you might want to pop over to the YouTube version so you can see us hanging out in person.

Okay, please welcome to the show for the first time.

The one and only, Tyler Statt.

I want you to convince me why I should read poetry.

I mean, the Bible is one third one.

Fair enough, fair no.

Most of it is poetry, right?

You probably are reading it, yeah.

I do read a lot of poetry, actually.

Hebrew poetry.

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