This week we indulge in a thought experiment and pretend that we're in the process of building a new church from the ground up. How would we run it? What would our statement of faith look like? How would we do communion and baptism and ministries? Who would we hire for the different positions? We have a blast thinking about what this ideal church would look like, and we hope you a blast listening to it. Oh, and our great friend Miki joins us and adds some random commentary at opportune moments. Everyone should start a petition to get her on the podcast more (and to actually say things).  I know I tend to say that I'll put things in the liner notes and then I don't...but this time I'm actually doing it! Below is a list of things that were mentioned in the episode that you might want to check out:

The Evidence Bible The Evangelical Free Churches of America "What We Believe" Page (Note: We do actually disagree with one word in this: premillenial. The EFCA believes that Christ will have a literal thousand-year reign on Earth, which we disagree with. But we have an unpopular eschatology. Maybe we'll talk about it at some point.)

The WWUTT video about women in the church

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We finish out our little mini-series on Emery songs with one last one about self-righteousness and what it does to a person. We dig into that theological concept further and talk about its consequences.

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This week, following our episode on legalism, we'll be talking about the opposite side of the coin: Christian liberty. We'll listen to an Emery song on the topic, review it, and then delve into the things that can go wrong when you take your Christian freedom for granted.

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This week we review a song by Emery and talk about the theological points behind it. It's the first episode of a three episodes series, so look forward to more of the same in the coming two weeks. We talk about the consequences of focusing too much on the justice and wrath attributes of God, and what too much legalism can do to your state of mind. Enjoy!

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This week we review the new "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" film, analyzing it as a story and as a think-piece. We also end up talking about all sorts of other movies, TV shows, and the definition of sociopathy, so climb aboard! It should be fun. We do a lot of comparing of the film to the series Death Note, which shares a lot of the same tonal and thematic elements. If you're interested, check out Caleb's blog post on the show here, and maybe give it a watch. We both highly recommend it.

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On this delayed episode, we talk about the awesome game we just finished playing and how good of a story it had. We also talk about accountability some more and go further into the "iron sharpens iron" mentality.

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Hannah's back! And we talk about the importance of Biblical friendship; not only so that you can have accountability to someone, but also for the simple fact that the community of the body of Christ is supposed to reflect the community that God has with the three persons of the Trinity. We also do a Mix 'n Match and go on plenty of tangents, so enjoy!

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This week we attempt to answer a listener question and instead end up going a little off-topic and answering tangential things that may or may not help our listener. Sorry, Carly. We'll answer your question in detail soon. We also reference Caleb's favorite podcast, Writing Excuses, which we absolutely recommend for all the advice you could ever want on brainstorming, writing, editing/revising, and publishing speculative fiction. Seriously, go check out this podcast.

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We introduce a new segment to the show: Mix 'n Match, where we ask each other questions, mix together the answers, and make up story ideas, worldbuilding tidbits, or any number of other things.

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