Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

My name is Caleb and today I'm joined by my father, Dr. Scott Keith,

and by Dr. Adam Francisco to continue our Why You Should series.

We are on several months.

I don't know how many months of telling you what you should do,

which is very new for the Thinking Fellows. This used to be like a contemplative conversation, and now it's instructions.

So we've taken a turn. But I think it's been a lot of fun. We've revisited a lot of topics we've done

throughout the years, through a new lens with this.

And I don't know, the should question does provide sort of the grounds for defining terms once again,

because that's the thing with a show like this that does, you know, broad overview of systematic theology, historical

theology, apologetics, biblical theology, is it when you have 40 minutes or less to sort of get

these topics done, you do have to use shorthand, right? You do use terms that maybe not everybody

will recognize. And something

like this is a really great way of just revisiting and redefining everything we've gone through

over the years and sort of given a fresh look at it. A bit of a pattern has erupted over the last

couple episodes. We did Why you should read the Old Testament.

Then we did why you should read the New Testament.

And then we just went into, Adam and I did, into the early church with a sort of

why you should know about the church in conflict.

It was, I think, how I phrased it, if I remember correctly, something to that extent

in order to give a scope of the fact that so much of the early church was apologetics

or defining the church to the world, I think is one of the other things we talked

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