Welcome to Follow Him, a week we podcast dedicated to helping individuals and families

with their Come Follow Me study.

I'm Hank Smith.

And I'm John By the way.

We love to learn.

We love to laugh.

We want to learn and laugh with you.

As together we follow Him.

Welcome to this week's bonus episode on using credible sources and studying church history

and avoiding pseudo scholarship.

Whenever you're looking at events from the past, not all sources are created equal.

There's a difference between me writing in my journal as soon as we finish this podcast.

I can't stand that Hank Smith.

I will never give him coke again.

That captures what I feel in the moment.

What say you asked me 10 years from now?

And in that intervening 10 years, you become an apostate and you burn my house down.

That might color my impression, not because I'm deliberately trying to lie about what

I thought about our first meeting, but because that's what happens.

I mean, an even better way to think about it is.

Most Saturdays say it's had their patriarchal blessing.

Try to remember exactly what you thought about each individual line in that blessing

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