I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything.

All right I'm excited because we're starting something brand new.

This is going to be a verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of Mark.

It'll be a series. We go through the whole Gospel of Mark, verse by verse from beginning to end.

But it might be a little bit different than stuff that you're used to or that you might be

expecting so I thought I should just start by explaining like the format.

How are we going to go through the Gospel of Mark together and we're going to focus on sort of

four different things as we go

through the Gospel of Mark and the four things are one understanding it in

detail. What I mean is I'll be looking at cultural context, we'll look at detailed first century

insights as we're looking at the discussions between Jesus and say a Pharisee or

something like that. We'll look at content from history or archaeology, but most importantly we'll look at the

the context of the verses, both in Mark as well as throughout the whole gospel of Mark

right in the passage, the whole gospel, and then through other passages in the scriptures so it'll be a lot of

contextual analysis stuff. Number two that's the first thing. Number two and this is you

expect these things right. Number two is good theology. I want obviously I don't ever plan on teaching bad theology,

but I intended to do good careful theology,

which means I'm willing to go deep on an issue

that comes up in the text.

We might be kind of working through a passage and come across an idea

and say hey let's evaluate this even more carefully let's look at other

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