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Life Audio Maybe your church has talked about church growth before. 7.8. Life audio.

Maybe your church has talked about church growth before, and you've only measured that by

metrics and numbers and how many hellos you're getting coming through the door.

But what if the growth that we are supposed to be growing in is deeper, is more relational,

is more theological than we could ever imagine. That is what we are diving into in today's episode.

Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents and welcome to this week's episode of the

Bot and Beloved podcast. As always, it's your girl Kirby Kelly, and I'm back at it again with yet another guest. As you all know, by the time this

episode is airing, my baby girl has arrived, which is crazy. I'm probably just sitting at home,

praying that God would give me an extra hour of sleep. But you get to enjoy this episode, which I pre-recorded,

with an incredible guest who wrote an amazing book. I know I always have people on here who are

writing the most amazing books, but it's true. Every guest I feel like that I have on here is just

talking about things that I'm like, nobody's talking about this, but finally somebody is.

And the person who's joining me

today is named Andrew Rue, and he came out with a book called Bail and the Gods of Moore.

Hold on. Rescuing church growth from idolatry. That's a very interesting title. And maybe you work in a

church. Maybe you don't. Maybe you're like, how is this even relevant to me in what I do? I work in a church maybe you don't maybe you're like how is this even

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