Episode 55
Comfort Theology: When Ease Becomes Evidence
Have you ever measured God’s goodness by your comfort, security, or success? This episode of Seek Go Create delves into “comfort theology”—the subtle belief that ease and stability are proof of God’s approval, and that faith has failed when life gets hard. Explore what happens when our prayers become transactions and why both triumph and suffering can be marks of deep faith. Listen in to re-examine faith, test assumptions, and discover a bigger story woven through uncertainty, endurance, and trust.
"Faith is not confidence in our preferred ending. Faith is confidence in God." - Tim Winders
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Episode Resources:
- NT90 Hub – This is the central website for the 90-day New Testament reading plan, with downloadable, printable plans, background information, and links to all episodes and resources.
Episode Highlights:
00:00 Comfort As Evidence
00:40 Show Intro And NT90 Plan
02:57 Storms And Doubt
04:11 Defining Comfort Theology
05:24 When Comfort Becomes Proof
08:06 Misused Phrases And Real Comfort
09:38 Fear Control And Transactional Prayer
12:12 Gethsemane Prayer Model
15:09 Comfort Vs Prosperity Gospel
17:26 Hebrews 11 Both Outcomes
19:56 Hebrews Context And Endurance
27:12 Three Implications For Us
31:05 Closing And Next Episode
Transcript
Most of us are not asking God to make us rich.
Speaker:We are asking for enough money, health, stability, and control to feel safe.
Speaker:Those are understandable desires, but when our faith rises and falls with the bank
Speaker:balance, the medical report, or the answer to prayer, comfort has become evidence
Speaker:that God is good and faith is working.
Speaker:Comfort is a gift, but it is a poor substitute for God
Speaker:Welcome everyone to Seek Go Create.
Speaker:This is Tim Winders.
Speaker:This is the continuation of episodes that have come from kinda this
Speaker:stretch that I did where I read the New Testament in 90 days.
Speaker:First of all, I developed a reading plan that I wanted for myself that put the
Speaker:New Testament books in the order that they were written, not chronological,
Speaker:not the order that's in most Bibles, but in the order that they were written
Speaker:this is a spinoff or a continuation of topics and things that came up from that
Speaker:exercise, and then from going through that reading plan that was developed.
Speaker:I think it's kinda cool.
Speaker:I've been enjoying it.
Speaker:I've been reading the letters inside that unfolding world that occurred in
Speaker:the first century, and it just brings up a lot of cool questions, thoughts,
Speaker:weird st- weird things that come up.
Speaker:this, that we're in the middle of here is sorta part of that.
Speaker:It just gets me thinking about things, and I'm sharing that here.
Speaker:we're just kinda digging into some of those questions and thoughts, and I'm
Speaker:not here to pretend that I have all the answers, but just kinda sharing
Speaker:the things that are coming to mind and letting you kinda dig in and decide.
Speaker:And one of the things that I encourage you to do is to sorta do portions or
Speaker:all of what I did, which is read that New Testament in order and in context.
Speaker:And you can go get the reading plan that I came up with.
Speaker:I put it in a format that you can download and get, has a lot of notes
Speaker:in it and things that I think will be helpful for you so that you can read
Speaker:it on your own and decide, "Hey-" Tim is actually onto something here.
Speaker:This sort of makes sense.
Speaker:I like reading the text in that sort of context and order.
Speaker:Or you are welcome to say, "No, Tim, this is not the way to go." But don't
Speaker:say that unless you try it first.
Speaker:Go get the reading plan at k2m.foundation/nt90.
Speaker:The link should be down in the notes wherever you listen to this, or if
Speaker:you're watching this on YouTube.
Speaker:Even if you're catching this on some social media as far as
Speaker:clips, you should be able to get links to go find that stuff.
Speaker:In our last conversation, we really began in a boat on the Sea of Galilee.
Speaker:Jesus told the disciples to cross to the other side.
Speaker:They followed, and the storm still came.
Speaker:In other words, Jesus told them to go, and they went right into a storm.
Speaker:The danger was real.
Speaker:Jesus was present, but his presence did not prevent the weather from causing
Speaker:some issues and creating some fear in the disciples, a lot of them fishermen
Speaker:that knew a little bit about the weather.
Speaker:The disciples asked the question, "Do you not care that we are
Speaker:perishing?" Their question connected his care to their circumstances.
Speaker:Have you ever done that with God?
Speaker:If he cared, surely this would not be happening.
Speaker:We all know, or we all probably have still made that type of connection ourselves.
Speaker:When life becomes painful or uncertain, we may assume that something has gone
Speaker:wrong with God, faith, or even us.
Speaker:Beneath that reaction is a belief we rarely name.
Speaker:A good God should keep faithful people reasonably comfortable.
Speaker:Today, we will name that belief, trace what it does to prayer,
Speaker:and test it against Hebrews 11.
Speaker:Let's, let's just go ahead and call it out.
Speaker:We mentioned it in the last episode, but if you're new here, let's define
Speaker:what I'm calling comfort theology.
Speaker:I didn't invent that term.
Speaker:I have heard it before.
Speaker:It's not widely used, but let's go ahead and define it so we understand
Speaker:what we're talking about here.
Speaker:Comfort theology is the belief that God's goodness should be proven
Speaker:through safety, ease, control, quick relief, or the outcome that we, that
Speaker:we prefer, our personal expectations.
Speaker:It does not merely enjoy comfort.
Speaker:It uses comfort as evidence.
Speaker:If life becomes easier, God is blessing me.
Speaker:If life becomes harder, something must be wrong.
Speaker:If prayer produces my result, faith worked.
Speaker:If it does not, something's wrong and somebody failed.
Speaker:For years, my faith, my personal faith, rose and fell with my bank balance.
Speaker:I was a business guy.
Speaker:I was chasing after money, and so that was how I gauged my faith
Speaker:levels and what God was doing.
Speaker:When money was there, I assumed God was blessing me.
Speaker:Bless, bless, bless.
Speaker:Woo-hoo.
Speaker:Look at God blessing me.
Speaker:When it was not, I wondered where God was, or in the Pentecostal world, we would
Speaker:say, "That old devil is coming after me."
Speaker:I'm not sure that either one of those are accurate or correct.
Speaker:I had rejected prosperity teaching, but the balance still acted like
Speaker:a spiritual scorecard for me.
Speaker:Comfort theology is not always about luxury.
Speaker:Often, it is about manageability.
Speaker:We want the treatment to work, the child to choose well, the job
Speaker:to remain secure, the business to survive or thrive, the marriage to
Speaker:heal, or the plan to make sense.
Speaker:These are understandable desires.
Speaker:We can pray for healing, reconciliation, provision,
Speaker:protection, wisdom, and open doors.
Speaker:The problem begins when the desired outcome becomes required proof.
Speaker:We stop saying, "God, this is what I desire." We begin saying, "God,
Speaker:this is what your goodness requires.
Speaker:This is a promise that you have made."
Speaker:That is comfort theology, and it spins off in a lot of directions, but that
Speaker:is somewhat the foundation of it.
Speaker:Comfort itself is not necessarily the problem.
Speaker:I am not in any way saying that we need to embrace discomfort or expect discomfort.
Speaker:That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker:A safe home, stable work, effective medicine, you know, a good culture,
Speaker:society that we live in, wise counseling, friendships, rest,
Speaker:relief, all those are gifts.
Speaker:Jesus cared for people in pain.
Speaker:He healed, fed, welcomed, restored, and he gave rest.
Speaker:We should seek medical care and counseling when we need it.
Speaker:We should establish wise boundaries with people that might do us
Speaker:harm or that cause issues for us.
Speaker:We should leave danger and help others leave abuse Endurance
Speaker:is never permission for abuse.
Speaker:Pain is not automatically holy, and faith is not carelessness.
Speaker:The question is whether comfort has become our evidence that God is good.
Speaker:This belief often hides inside familiar phrases.
Speaker:Some of you may have heard them.
Speaker:Some of us may have said them.
Speaker:God has a plan.
Speaker:Everything happens for a reason.
Speaker:God is in control.
Speaker:God will not give you more than you can handle.
Speaker:Those things, most of those aren't in the Bible, by the way.
Speaker:First Corinthians ten thirteen says, "God provides a way through temptation
Speaker:so believers can endure it." It does not promise every illness,
Speaker:betrayal, loss, or burden will remain below our emotional capacity.
Speaker:Sometimes life gives people more than they can carry alone.
Speaker:That is why believers bear one another's burdens in Galatians six two.
Speaker:That is what kingdom community is all about.
Speaker:That's what we saw in the first century.
Speaker:Comfort theology says strong faith should keep life manageable, make it easier.
Speaker:It should be something that is all okay.
Speaker:Everything is good by how we define what good is.
Speaker:The gospel says that we belong to Jesus when life becomes unmanageable.
Speaker:In fact, there's a certain degree of you can't manage it, You can't
Speaker:manage The things that occur.
Speaker:That is and should be a stronger hope for us.
Speaker:Let's talk about fear, control, and something I'll call transactional prayer.
Speaker:Why does comfort become evident so easily?
Speaker:Fear and control are often close beneath the surface of that.
Speaker:Wanting safety is human, nothing wrong with it.
Speaker:Some people grew up around addiction, violence, poverty, betrayal, illness, or
Speaker:instability, and so they desire and crave some of that stability more than others.
Speaker:Calm could disappear without warning.
Speaker:I know my wife has discussed growing up around, in an alcoholic family and
Speaker:things like that, that there's always this dis-ease that one has at all times.
Speaker:A promise that God will prevent future pain can feel like just
Speaker:a breath of fresh air or oxygen.
Speaker:We should treat that desire with compassion.
Speaker:That's not a bad thing.
Speaker:But compassion does not require promises the text does not make.
Speaker:Fear says, "I cannot be all right unless I know what happens next."
Speaker:Control answers, "Then secure the outcome." Comfort theology gives
Speaker:that exchange religious language.
Speaker:It attempts to make it biblical.
Speaker:Prayer becomes a transaction.
Speaker:We provide faith, devotion, obedience, giving, or the correct words.
Speaker:We have to say it a certain way.
Speaker:God provides the result if we do.
Speaker:If we hold up our side, we expect God to honor the agreement we created.
Speaker:But God did not sign that agreement.
Speaker:Paul calls God the Father of mercies and God of all comfort in 2 Corinthians 1:3.
Speaker:Then he says, "God comforts us in affliction so we can comfort others."
Speaker:Notice where that comfort appears.
Speaker:It appears in affliction, not the absence of affliction, or
Speaker:as we talked about in previous episode, the absence of the storms.
Speaker:It shows up when there is affliction and storms there.
Speaker:Biblical comfort does not always remove those circumstances.
Speaker:It brings presence, courage, hope, truth, and strength within it.
Speaker:Comfort theology says the circumstance must disappear as
Speaker:evidence that God is present.
Speaker:Jesus gives us a different way to pray in Gethsemane.
Speaker:"My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me."
Speaker:That is an honest request.
Speaker:Jesus does not pretend the coming suffering is pleasant.
Speaker:Then he prays Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.
Speaker:That's Matthew twenty-six thirty-nine.
Speaker:The second sentence does not cancel the first.
Speaker:It places the request inside trust.
Speaker:Jesus asked without turning the answer into a test of the Father's love.
Speaker:This is prayer without transaction.
Speaker:It speaks very plainly.
Speaker:It asks boldly.
Speaker:It remains surrendered.
Speaker:Some of us were taught that adding, "If it is your will," shows doubt.
Speaker:I know I was.
Speaker:Gethsemane shows humility.
Speaker:Surrender is not uncertainty about God's goodness.
Speaker:It is honesty about our control.
Speaker:This is also where faith and presumption separate.
Speaker:Presumption says God is with us, so our plan must succeed.
Speaker:That's also our expectations there.
Speaker:Faith says God is with us, so we can remain faithful whether
Speaker:this plan succeeds or fails.
Speaker:In the temptation of Jesus, Satan quotes Psalm ninety-one and urges
Speaker:Jesus to jump from the temple.
Speaker:The words come from Scripture, but the act would demand a particular rescue.
Speaker:Jesus answers, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test."
Speaker:That's in Matthew four:seven.
Speaker:Faith does not require God to perform on command, not like a genie in a
Speaker:bottle that's doing whatever we demand.
Speaker:We can ask directly for healing, restoration, provision, protection,
Speaker:wisdom, and opportunity.
Speaker:Then we place those desires before God rather than placing God beneath them.
Speaker:I used to say that God does not want me to treat him like an ATM machine.
Speaker:I stick in my card, punch in my code, and I expect something to come out.
Speaker:That's not the transactional aspect of faith.
Speaker:This is the way it's said, "Father, this is what I want. This is what
Speaker:I fear. Give me wisdom for the next step, courage to obey, and grace
Speaker:to trust you with what follows."
Speaker:That is not a weak prayer.
Speaker:It is trust without control Let's talk about something that I have
Speaker:great familiarity with, and many of us do, and that is the relationship
Speaker:between comfort theology and prosperity teaching or the prosperity gospel.
Speaker:It overlaps.
Speaker:Comfort theology overlaps with prosperity teaching, but they are not identical.
Speaker:They're not the same thing.
Speaker:Prosperity teaching usually connects God's favor with visible increase,
Speaker:more wealth, better health, greater influence, or expanded opportunity.
Speaker:Comfort theology is broader and sometimes quieter.
Speaker:Someone can reject wealth-centered teaching and still assume faithful people
Speaker:should be protected from severe illness.
Speaker:A person can live simply and still believe obedience should preserve the
Speaker:family plan or keep life manageable.
Speaker:Prosperity teaching says God proves favor by giving us more.
Speaker:Comfort theology says God proves goodness by keeping pain within acceptable
Speaker:limits, by keeping us away from the storm, by keeping the storms away
Speaker:and not letting those get near us.
Speaker:Both turn circumstances into evidence.
Speaker:Yet Scripture honors people who received provision, healing,
Speaker:rescue, and open doors.
Speaker:It also honors people who remained faithful when the door did not open.
Speaker:Reading the Bible chronologically began exposing this assumption in me.
Speaker:I kept noticing the promises that were larger than the lives of the
Speaker:people who first received them.
Speaker:Some were still called faithful even though they did not see the
Speaker:full promise within their lifetime.
Speaker:That is why it's interesting.
Speaker:We've talked about this recently.
Speaker:Hebrews 11 really matters.
Speaker:It's more than just what we'll call this list of the Faith Hall of Fame.
Speaker:There's more there.
Speaker:It will not allow us to build a theology from only the outcomes we prefer.
Speaker:So let's look at Hebrews 11.
Speaker:Again, we've talked about it before.
Speaker:You could go back in recent episodes and dig into it more, but it's often
Speaker:called the faith chapter, the Hall of Faith or something like that.
Speaker:Many of us learned that it has dramatic lines.
Speaker:"By faith, kingdoms were conquered, justice was enforced, promises were
Speaker:obtained, lions' mouths were shut, fire lost its power, people escaped
Speaker:the sword, weakness became strength."
Speaker:That's Hebrews 11:32 through 34.
Speaker:These are remarkable accounts, no doubt.
Speaker:God delivered people.
Speaker:Faith moved them to act.
Speaker:Real danger gave way to real rescue.
Speaker:But if we stop there, comfort theology seems to work Believe God,
Speaker:act in faith, receive the outcome.
Speaker:But the writer does not stop there.
Speaker:The next words are, "Others were tortured," Hebrews 11:35.
Speaker:The chapter moves from people who received deliverance to people who did not.
Speaker:Some faced mocking and flogging.
Speaker:Some endured imprisonment.
Speaker:Some were stoned.
Speaker:Some were killed by the sword.
Speaker:Some wandered without stable homes, vulnerable and mistreated.
Speaker:That's again Hebrews 11:35-38.
Speaker:Some escaped the sword.
Speaker:Some were killed by the sword.
Speaker:Hebrews calls both faithful.
Speaker:That is one of the clearest tests of comfort theology in the New Testament.
Speaker:if a preferred outcome proves faith, what do we do with that second group?
Speaker:If suffering proves failure, why does Hebrews honor them?
Speaker:If stronger belief guarantees rescue, why are those who were not
Speaker:rescued included among the witnesses?
Speaker:The text will not let circumstances measure faith.
Speaker:It places triumph and suffering inside the same testimony.
Speaker:It mashes those two together.
Speaker:That does not mean outcomes do not matter.
Speaker:Rescue matters to the person rescued.
Speaker:Healing matters to the person who is sick.
Speaker:Justice matters to the person who was harmed.
Speaker:It means the outcome cannot reliably measure devotion.
Speaker:The person delivered may have trusted God.
Speaker:The person who suffered may also have trusted God.
Speaker:To understand the argument, we need the original audience in view Hebrews
Speaker:speaks to believers under pressure.
Speaker:Let's keep this context in mind.
Speaker:The writer reminds them of earlier days when they endured
Speaker:a hard struggle with suffering.
Speaker:Some were publicly exposed to reproach.
Speaker:Some shared the suffering of imprisoned people.
Speaker:Some experienced the seizure of their property.
Speaker:That's again Hebrews 10:32 through 34.
Speaker:Following Jesus had not made life easier.
Speaker:It had cost them.
Speaker:They were tired.
Speaker:Some were in danger of drawing back or going back to the old temple system.
Speaker:The familiar world behind them may have seemed safer and easier than
Speaker:continued allegiance to Jesus.
Speaker:He was asking them to get in the boat, go into the storm.
Speaker:They were thinking it might be better to go back.
Speaker:The writer does not promise that stronger faith will restore everything they lost.
Speaker:Instead, the writer places their story inside a longer story of trust.
Speaker:Abel was faithful and was killed.
Speaker:Abraham left home without knowing where he was going.
Speaker:Moses refused Pharaoh's temporary security and identified with an oppressed people.
Speaker:Rahab risked what security she had because she believed Israel's
Speaker:God was acting and moving.
Speaker:Their circumstances differed, their allegiance did not.
Speaker:Some moved toward a promise they could not see.
Speaker:Some left familiar security.
Speaker:Some endured loss.
Speaker:Some received what they hoped for.
Speaker:Others did not receive it within their lifetimes.
:13 says, "These all died in faith, not having received the
:things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar."
:They died in faith.
:They did not receive everything within the years available to them.
:They trusted a promise larger than their lifetime, than their years on the Earth.
:Comfort theology expects visible confirmation quickly enough for
:us to recognize and explain it.
:Hebrews gives faith a longer and much bigger horizon.
:Faith does not force God's timetable into ours.
:Faith orders life around God's promise when immediate evidence remains incomplete
:The chapter ends in the same direction.
:"All these, though commended through their faith, did not receive
:what was promised, since God had provided something better for us."
:39-40.
:Commended through faith, still waiting for the fullness of the promise.
:Those statements belong together.
:The original audience needed that word.
:Their losses could have looked like evidence that following Jesus had failed.
:Their suffering could have made old securities, like the
:temple system, attractive again.
:Hebrews does not deny their losses.
:It shows that visible loss cannot decide the truth about God's faithfulness.
:Then Hebrews 12 begins with, "Therefore, because these witnesses
:have shown that faithfulness."
:Because these witnesses have shown what faithfulness looks like, the
:audience is told to lay aside every burden and the sin that clings closely.
:They are told to run with endurance the race that is set
:before us, looking to Jesus.
:That's Hebrews 12:1-2.
:The instruction is not discover the method that guarantees escape.
:It is run with endurance.
:Look to Jesus.
:Get in the boat with Jesus and go to the other side of the sea.
:The witnesses do not all testify that faith produced comfort.
:They testify that God remained worthy of trust.
:That is a different message.
:Hebrews 11 is not a collection of techniques for producing
:impressive outcomes.
:It gathers lives shaped by trust in God's promise through uncertainty,
:opposition, waiting, rescue, and death.
:Faith is not confidence in our preferred ending.
:Faith is confidence in God.
:By faith, some receive deliverance.
:By faith, others endured without it.
:The object of faith was not the outcome.
:The object of faith was God.
:This matters because we often tell testimonies from
:only one side of Hebrews 11.
:We tell about the unexpected check, the clear scan, the restored
:relationship, the protected traveler, or the door that opened up for us.
:We should thank God for those gifts, no doubt.
:Gratitude is right.
:But if those are the only stories we can call testimonies, we teach
:people to identify faith with escape.
:Hebrews tells stories of endurance, too.
:The person who keeps praying without manufacturing certainty has a testimony.
:The worker who chooses integrity while the result remains
:disappointing has a testimony.
:The caregiver who continues serving through exhaustion has
:a testimony The person who dies trusting Jesus has a testimony.
:Not every testimony ends with the circumstance changing or the
:expectation that we have desired.
:Sometimes the testimony is that allegiance remained.
:Hebrews ask a deeper question than did faith get the result?
:It asks, did they continue to trust God?
:That does not glorify suffering.
:Hebrews does not tell us to chase pain, remain in abuse, refuse treatment,
:or call preventable harm God's will.
:It addresses people paying a real cost for allegiance and calls
:them to keep looking to Jesus.
:Nor does the chapter allow us to look at another person's pain
:and declare that faith failed.
:Circumstances alone cannot reveal the condition of someone's faith.
:Some escaped the sword.
:Some were killed by the sword.
:Both were commended.
:That is the primary biblical test comfort theology cannot pass.
:All right, so what does this mean for us?
:Hebrews first addressed believers whose losses could have made
:faithfulness look like failure.
:The writer kept rescue and suffering in the same testimony, then
:directed both groups toward Jesus.
:That gives us, I think, three implications we could look at.
:Identify the outcome you require, not the outcome you desire.
:The outcome you quietly require.
:A desire can be named honestly before God.
:A required outcome must prove that God is good, prayer works, and faith is real.
:Ask one diagnostic question: What must remain safe, predictable, or successful
:before I feel confident that God is good?
:Maybe the medical report must change.
:Maybe a child must come home.
:Maybe the business must survive.
:Maybe a relationship must recover.
:Maybe the next season must follow your plan.
:Name it without shame.
:A changed circumstance can be a gift.
:It cannot establish God's character.
:Second thing to look at: Pray without transaction.
:Prayer can still be specific and bold.
:Father, heal this body.
:Restore this relationship.
:Provide what is needed.
:Protect this child.
:Open the right door for me.
:Then continue.
:Show me what obedience requires today.
:Give me courage to receive help.
:Correct me where I am wrong.
:Keep fear from directing my choices.
:Help me trust you without demanding my script or my outcomes.
:We ask for what we desire.
:We take the next faithful step.
:We receive medicine, counseling, rest, wise boundaries, and
:practical help when needed.
:It's okay to receive help.
:Then we release the result we were never able to command.
:Faith is active without pretending to be sovereign.
:Next, refuse to measure another person's faith by circumstances.
:I know I have been guilty of this, and we all need to change this.
:When someone receives good news, celebrate without turning
:the outcome into a formula.
:Thank God for healing, provision, reconciliation, or opportunity.
:When someone does not receive that news, remain present without accusation.
:Do not ask whether they believed enough or had enough faith.
:Do not search immediately for hidden sin.
:That's what the Pharisees did.
:Do not promise a timetable God has not given.
:Listen, pray, help.
:Tell the truth.
:Carry what you can.
:Help them with their burdens.
:A miracle is grace, not proof of superiority.
:The person who receives one is not more loved than the person still waiting.
:Hebrews gives us better language.
:Some received deliverance.
:Others endured.
:Both were commended for faith.
:This changes how we treat people and each other, how we practice religion
:in church, how we approach politics, and how we lead in business or work.
:In every one of those places, faithfulness matters more than controlling the outcome.
:Comfort is a gift.
:It is a poor measure of God.
:Remember this, and I wanna make sure I say this because sometimes this
:conversation people can get all worked up.
:Healing is a good thing.
:Safety is good.
:Being led and guided away from bad things, that's good.
:Rest is a gift.
:Relief deserves our gratitude.
:Receive each one when it comes.
:Don't repel it.
:Please don't.
:We need as much of that as we can get.
:But none of that can serve as final evidence that God is
:good or even that God exists.
:Hebrews 11 places people who escaped beside people who endured.
:The chapter does not divide them into strong faith and weak faith.
:It gathers them into one testimony and directs our attention toward Jesus.
:Faith asks boldly.
:Faith obeys honestly.
:Faith releases the outcome.
:Comfort theology asks the outcome to prove what only God can establish.
:Then it reads circumstances as a verdict on faith.
:That habit also shapes how we read scripture.
:We prefer verses that reassure us quickly.
:We pull words away from their original audience.
:We choose the answer that protects what feels manageable, even when
:the larger story points elsewhere.
:That is where we will go next in Quick Answers.
:That's the, working title for the next episode.
:We will examine comfortable and easy Bible answers, the verses we detach from their
:stories, and what changes when we read them in the world of their first hearers.
:Make sure that you go get the reading plan we discussed at the beginning here.
:The NT90 reading plan is at k2m.foundation/nt90.
:It will, I promise you, guarantee you, it will give you great context
:on the New Testament, which I believe we all should desire to understand
:the context of what was written.
:Download it, and then follow it through and read through that.
:This is Tim Winders.
:That's me.
:Keep digging, keep seeking, and we'll see you on the next episode.
