Welcome to Real Christianity, a weekly show designed to help Christians know their Bible, defend their faith, and truly understand what it means to follow Jesus.

The premise is simple. The culture is getting louder. The church is getting flashier, but few pastors are teaching on how to live a biblical life.

My name is Dale Partridge, along with my incredible wife, Veronica. Join us as we start an important conversation about what it really means to be a Christian.

Welcome to Real Christianity. Today we are talking about why Christians should study their Bible and not just read it.

So, cool conversation. I'm excited about today. The other thing is that this is episode number 52.

One year, guys.

One year. And the worst part about it is that we already recorded this episode once.

And I actually deleted it on accident. Oh my goodness, I was frustrated.

I legitimately cried. She did. She did. I was already having a hard day and I was a little overwhelmed and then he told me and I just started crying. I was like, I really need a nap.

She took a nap. I took a nap and I feel so much better now, guys.

So, the cool thing is, you guys probably noticed, if you saw on Instagram, me follow us on Instagram, that we passed one million downloads.

So, pretty much approximately 52 episodes and one million downloads. 3,000 plus reviews. Guys, we are super blessed.

I think this is actually a good lesson to share here. It's a lesson that I learned in my years as an entrepreneur in the business world.

What if we didn't start this podcast?

You know, tens of thousands of people of Christians wouldn't have been encouraged if we had chosen to not start this podcast.

And what about you? Has the Lord put a ministry on your heart to accomplish? Have you allowed fear to prevent that calling to occur or ministry to go about?

Now, there's only two reasons that should prevent you from starting a ministry that the Lord has put on your heart.

The first is that it's your idea and it's not God's call. So, that's the first one.

And too many people in the church today, I think, are over-called. They think they're called and reality. They're disguising their own desires as God's call on their life, especially with all these kind of purpose conferences and stuff that are happening in the church today.

The second reason is that you're not qualified or trained or ready or prepared, I should say.

You know, David was told that he was going to be king at a young man. We don't know a specific age, but he was a young man.

It wasn't until he was 30 that he actually sat in that seat of being king. Jesus was impressing the Pharisees at 12, but he didn't walk into his ministry until the age of 30 as well.

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