Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, this teaching is the first of just a short two-part series that represents

some teachings and reflections that I gave a number of years ago when I was a teaching

pastor at Door of Hope Church about the way the church is described in the book of Acts

2.

There's a famous line in Acts 2 verses 40 through 42 that just describe a day in the

life of one of the first communities of Jesus gathering in Jerusalem.

And so what we explore is in this teaching is essentially that the earliest churches

were groups of people who were learning to form new habits together, new habits of living

and of thinking.

And specifically we explore in this teaching what the word disciple means and why it is

that from the very beginning Jesus communities have always incorporated learning, learning

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