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Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word,

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. I want you to imagine

how strange it must have been for the first Christians to break with culture norms, to follow a

God they could not see, a God that asks for full devotion,

for their whole lives, for complete surrender and trust, and one that promised to perform

miracles in and through them and transform them from the inside out.

Imagine how that must have looked to the bystanders all around them.

Have we watered down what it means to follow Jesus to such a degree that it's no longer compelling,

intriguing, or even fascinating to the outside world?

Dr. Nijay Gupta joins me today to talk about his really amazing new book, Strange Religion,

how the first Christians were weird, and compelling we're going to get

them on in a moment but i have a quick announcement for you we've got an app it's free and we're

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