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Ep. 1 - My Faith Testimony · Fulfilled with Rebecca Sheehan

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Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody, welcome to the very first episode of Fulfilled.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Rebecca Sheehan.
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SPEAKER_00: I cannot believe I'm sitting here right now starting this podcast.
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First of all,
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it seems like there have been so many random little things
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trying to derail this.
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SPEAKER_00: Last night I was getting ready to finish typing out this episode,
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SPEAKER_00: everything I wanted to say,
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SPEAKER_00: and I burned my hand really badly on a pan.
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SPEAKER_00: Thankfully, it's not that bad.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're watching this, you can see it's just a little bit red.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's funny,
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I did resolve with this new podcast to be a bit less scripted
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and more off the cuff,
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SPEAKER_00: so maybe that burn situation was all divine providence.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway,
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SPEAKER_00: in this first episode,
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SPEAKER_00: even though it's not easy for me,
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I'm going to share my story so you can get to know me a little
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better and why I'm
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SPEAKER_00: doing this.
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But we'll start with the show's name and what you can expect
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from this podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: So, fulfilled.
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SPEAKER_00: In Christianity, we hear this word quite a bit.
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SPEAKER_00: It basically refers to the aspects of Jesus' life that relate to specific
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SPEAKER_00: predictions or symbols from the Old Testament.
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SPEAKER_00: For example,
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SPEAKER_00: that he was born in Bethlehem,
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SPEAKER_00: that his lineage is that of King David's,
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SPEAKER_00: that he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey,
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SPEAKER_00: and of course,
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SPEAKER_00: his death and resurrection.
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There's also an overarching big picture meaning of fulfilled
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that God's plan all
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SPEAKER_00: along to restore our broken relationship with him was fulfilled in Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: I just love that so much.
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SPEAKER_00: Secondly,
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SPEAKER_00: my goal with this podcast is to inspire and equip you,
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whether you're a total skeptic or have been going to church
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your whole entire life
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SPEAKER_00: or somewhere in between,
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SPEAKER_00: to grow closer to your faith.
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SPEAKER_00: I love C.S.
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SPEAKER_00: Lewis,
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so I'm probably going to be quoting him quite a bit throughout
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this podcast,
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SPEAKER_00: but listen to this quote.
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SPEAKER_00: I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen,
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SPEAKER_00: not only because I see it,
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SPEAKER_00: but because by it I see everything else.
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SPEAKER_00: So in each episode,
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I'm going to aim to show you how Christianity not only
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illuminates what can be a
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SPEAKER_00: dark and gloomy world,
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SPEAKER_00: but how it shines a light on who we are,
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SPEAKER_00: where we are,
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SPEAKER_00: and the path that each of us is meant to follow.
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In terms of what you can expect each episode to look like,
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my background is in TV journalism.
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SPEAKER_00: I used to be a local reporter and anchor for Fox, ABC, and NBC stations.
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SPEAKER_00: So the podcast format is going to be what I do best and love most,
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interviewing interesting and inspiring people who can teach us
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a thing or two.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, we'll have some fun along the way.
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SPEAKER_00: But as I mentioned in the beginning,
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SPEAKER_00: for this first episode,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to do something that a lot of journalists,
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SPEAKER_00: including myself,
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SPEAKER_00: aren't too comfortable with.
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SPEAKER_00: which is telling my own story.
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And my story begins with the final reason this podcast is
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called Fulfilled.
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It's because I grew up Jewish and have a totally different
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perspective on it now.
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SPEAKER_00: So of course,
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SPEAKER_00: many of the early Christians were Jews,
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SPEAKER_00: but of all the Jews on earth today,
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SPEAKER_00: our ancestors were the ones who were not.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's a little excerpt I gave at our family's baptism a few months ago,
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SPEAKER_00: which I think describes it best.
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SPEAKER_00: I said, it's funny to think about Jesus's family tree.
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SPEAKER_00: It's got all these fruit bearing branches grafted onto the tree.
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If you're not familiar,
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grafted is Christian speak for becoming an adopted child of God.
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SPEAKER_00: But what about the branches originally there?
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SPEAKER_00: It's nothing less than evidence of God's goodness,
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SPEAKER_00: power,
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SPEAKER_00: and will that this branch,
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SPEAKER_00: brittle for thousands of years,
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SPEAKER_00: is finally starting to flower.
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SPEAKER_00: It might have looked barren, but God didn't prune it.
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SPEAKER_00: He breathed life into it instead.
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SPEAKER_00: Some might call my Christian faith crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Others I know find it completely offensive.
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SPEAKER_00: But I believe the technical name for it is fulfilled.
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SPEAKER_00: So how on earth did I get here, launching a Christian podcast?
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Both my parents are Jewish and they did their due diligence
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raising me with all the
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SPEAKER_00: customs and traditions of being Jewish.
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SPEAKER_00: Somehow,
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SPEAKER_00: despite all this,
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I had it in my heart that someday I would find Christ even
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though I had no idea
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SPEAKER_00: when or where this would happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Now you could just say that this was me as a kid trying to fit in,
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maybe even jealous that I didn't have all of the chocolate
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Easter eggs or the
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SPEAKER_00: Christmas presents,
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SPEAKER_00: but that wasn't it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's interesting,
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when I look back and try to think of certain formative
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experiences that led me to
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SPEAKER_00: where I am today,
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Two of them actually took place in different countries,
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and I was trying to think of why.
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And I think it's maybe because I felt far enough away from my
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normal life that I
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was maybe more open or less afraid of upsetting anyone by
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feeling a certain way.
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So the first one was when I was lucky enough to take a trip
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with my high school
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SPEAKER_00: history class to Italy.
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SPEAKER_00: We visited the city of Assisi, which is home to St.
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Francis of Assisi,
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who started the Franciscan Order of Monks in the 13th century.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway,
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we walked into this large church there and inside was this tiny
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little medieval building.
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SPEAKER_00: It almost looked like a hut.
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And I learned that this was the original structure that dated
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back to the 9th century,
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SPEAKER_00: this little chapel.
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SPEAKER_00: And I went in there and I just felt bathed in holiness.
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SPEAKER_00: I couldn't even describe it.
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SPEAKER_00: And later, when I researched it, I found out that that is where St.
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SPEAKER_00: Francis of Assisi was praying when he saw Jesus.
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And that is where he decided to dedicate his life to Christ and
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helping others.
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SPEAKER_00: Right there.
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SPEAKER_00: And I didn't even know it.
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SPEAKER_00: So there was that.
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And then a somewhat opposite experience happened to me when I
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was studying abroad
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SPEAKER_00: in Paris during college.
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You know,
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when you're 20,
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you're trying to find yourself,
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figure out who you are.
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And I wanted to try to get closer to my Jewish heritage because
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I really wanted God
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SPEAKER_00: to be part of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: And the high holidays were coming up, the Jewish New Year.
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and I asked a friend if he wanted to come with me to try to go
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to a synagogue or temple.
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So we found one online,
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and when we went there the next day,
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we couldn't find it anywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: There were no signs.
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SPEAKER_00: We were lost, literally, and later I found out figuratively as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So we finally found it and walked in,
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SPEAKER_00: and there was just all of this sort of chaotic sounding shouting.
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SPEAKER_00: I realized then that this was an Orthodox synagogue,
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SPEAKER_00: which doesn't have musical instruments or praying in unison,
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SPEAKER_00: but it's basically the men chanting prayers on their own.
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SPEAKER_00: Another thing about Orthodox synagogues,
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SPEAKER_00: or at least this one,
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SPEAKER_00: was that the genders were segregated.
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SPEAKER_00: So I went to go sit with the women, which was behind this wooden barrier.
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There were just a few holes in this wooden barrier so that you
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could see through to
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SPEAKER_00: the men chanting,
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SPEAKER_00: and then in front of them to where the Torahs were kept,
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SPEAKER_00: the holy scrolls.
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So basically,
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I couldn't see or understand anything that was going on in this service.
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I could read some Hebrew,
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but I definitely didn't know what any of it meant.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was just a very troubling experience.
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SPEAKER_00: And remember that barrier, because I will come back to that later.
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So after that,
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and throughout my young adulthood,
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I sort of let religion take a back seat.
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SPEAKER_00: And I thought,
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SPEAKER_00: well,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: if the man I marry is Christian,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe his family will be a big Christian family.
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SPEAKER_00: So I can just sort of slip right in, no questions asked.
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because in Judaism,
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the family's religion is a lot of it,
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I thought it would be easy.
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SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: I met John, my now husband.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, he was raised Christian, but didn't have deep, profound ties to it.
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SPEAKER_00: And he actually saw the beauty in Judaism,
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SPEAKER_00: and he told me he was a free agent when it came to religion.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was thinking to myself, no, you are not supposed to say that.
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SPEAKER_00: Fast forward a few years,
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we are happily married and busy with three preschool aged kids
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who are just
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SPEAKER_00: starting to talk and ask about God and where people go when they die,
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SPEAKER_00: as young kids tend to do.
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It was then that we knew it was time to kick our faith journey
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up a notch and stop
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SPEAKER_00: coasting along,
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SPEAKER_00: celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays.
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You know,
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we honored the traditions,
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but sort of missed the forest for the trees.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway,
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there's a wonderful couple that John and I are friends with who
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are devout Catholics,
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SPEAKER_00: and the wife's grandmother was Jewish,
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SPEAKER_00: and she feels very connected to her Jewish roots.
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SPEAKER_00: So naturally, she and I would talk quite a bit about faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think it was at a Cardinals game.
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I know I'm not doing the female gender any favors when I say
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that she and I were
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SPEAKER_00: not paying attention to the game.
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SPEAKER_00: She mentioned a Bible in a Year podcast she had listened to.
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SPEAKER_00: It piqued my interest, and I gave the first few episodes a try.
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SPEAKER_00: When I got to Genesis 25,
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SPEAKER_00: the story of Isaac,
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SPEAKER_00: Abraham's son,
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SPEAKER_00: and Isaac's wife,
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SPEAKER_00: Rebecca,
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SPEAKER_00: I was like,
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SPEAKER_00: wait a second,
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SPEAKER_00: she's the mother of twin boys like I am?
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And even more uncanny was that like Esau,
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the older twin,
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our older twin was sort of hairy too.
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SPEAKER_00: The younger twin, kind of like Jacob, also had a
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sly streak,
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a little twinkle in his eye,
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so I couldn't help comparing the sets of twins.
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Of course,
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that didn't last long as that story got pretty dysfunctional
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pretty quickly.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, a month or two later, we found ourselves home on Christmas Eve.
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SPEAKER_00: It was an unseasonably warm night for December 24th in St.
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SPEAKER_00: Louis,
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and I had remembered seeing signs at the church down the street
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for a Christmas Eve
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SPEAKER_00: candlelight service.
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My husband and I both had a similar urge to go,
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so we walked over to check it out.
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It's hard to describe the feeling that both of us had during
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that service.
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SPEAKER_00: For me,
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SPEAKER_00: singing all those classic Christmas songs I had loved for years,
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SPEAKER_00: with a meaningful sermon,
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SPEAKER_00: and of course,
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SPEAKER_00: that powerful candlelit singing of Silent Night,
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SPEAKER_00: something had just changed in us,
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and John and I knew that we were on the precipice of something
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great and entirely
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SPEAKER_00: new for us.
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SPEAKER_00: So the next Sunday we decided to go back with our kids,
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SPEAKER_00: and then the next Sunday after that,
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SPEAKER_00: and so on.
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SPEAKER_00: We actually ended up moving just six months later,
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but our new house was only five minutes away from a church that
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this church we had
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SPEAKER_00: been going to had planted.
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SPEAKER_00: And that new church also ended up being our kids' school.
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SPEAKER_00: So it was a pretty perfect scenario.
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SPEAKER_00: From there, our family's walk in faith only grew.
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I've got to give a shout out to my Bible study ladies because
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I'd never experienced
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such a close intergenerational bond with a group of women like
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that before.
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Through deep intellectual discourse over Bible passages to prayers,
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laughter,
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and tears.
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SPEAKER_00: It sounds so cheesy, but that's actually what we did.
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SPEAKER_00: Those Tuesday mornings were honestly the highlight of every week for me.
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And I don't exactly remember when or how my faith background
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came up in that group,
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SPEAKER_00: but I was definitely shy about the fact that I grew up Jewish.
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SPEAKER_00: Deep down, humans are social creatures.
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SPEAKER_00: I think we all have that intrinsic desire to not be the odd one out.
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So what I didn't expect was the outpouring of love,
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support,
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and gratitude for sharing my story.
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SPEAKER_00: See,
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SPEAKER_00: I was thinking the best-case scenario that they would still like me,
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SPEAKER_00: despite my Jewish background,
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SPEAKER_00: but I was not expecting that my story would inspire them in any way.
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SPEAKER_00: Me,
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SPEAKER_00: inspire these amazing,
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SPEAKER_00: perfect-seeming,
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SPEAKER_00: church-going Presbyterian moms and grandmas who,
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SPEAKER_00: in my mind,
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SPEAKER_00: never ever sinned.
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SPEAKER_00: Of course,
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SPEAKER_00: as I grew in my knowledge of Christianity,
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SPEAKER_00: both on the pages of the Bible and in my life,
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SPEAKER_00: I realized that a lot of these women I thought were perfect were actually
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SPEAKER_00: struggling with some pretty tough things.
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SPEAKER_00: None of us is perfect, except for Jesus, and that is why we all need him.
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because we definitely can't do it alone our family was baptized
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at our church this
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past spring knowing about my unconventional path to christ our
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pastor had asked me
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to share my faith testimony to be honest i really didn't want
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to it wasn't the
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public speaking aspect of it it was the vulnerability of it but
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since i witnessed
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how it inspired my bible study friends i agreed to do it and
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spoke at our baptism
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SPEAKER_00: in front of the whole congregation
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It's on video somewhere,
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but I never shared that speech beyond those church walls.
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Which I know sort of misses the whole point of the Great
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Commission in Matthew.
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And the word gospel literally means good news that ought to
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unabashedly be shared.
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I remember after our baptism asking my husband and some friends
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how they thought I
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should go about sharing more of my baptism testimony beyond our
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church family.
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SPEAKER_00: And they all said the same thing, you'll know when the time is right.
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And I just love that so much because clearly this is now that
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season in my life.
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And I will let you guys know when I post a link to that video
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because I would love
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SPEAKER_00: for you to see it.
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in my speech i talked about how i journeyed through the bible
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in a year through
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that podcast i mentioned i appreciated it in such a deep
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profound way because to me
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reading the old testament was like one long family history
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lesson the story of
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jacob's son joseph being sold into slavery in egypt and then
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rising up and his
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brothers bowing down to him at the end sorry for the spoiler
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was like a riveting
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SPEAKER_00: page turner and i couldn't wait to see what happened next
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or the heartbreak of King David's lazy lust for Bathsheba that
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he so passionately
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SPEAKER_00: repented to God for in Psalm 51.
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SPEAKER_00: The tears came, though, when I started reading John's Gospel.
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SPEAKER_00: The gist of it was, where has this been all my life?
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SPEAKER_00: Part of me was so sad that I had never,
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SPEAKER_00: ever read this before,
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SPEAKER_00: but the other part of me was so grateful that,
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SPEAKER_00: in my early 30s,
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SPEAKER_00: I finally had.
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SPEAKER_00: This might have been one of the craziest parts, though.
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Remember the story I told about feeling stuck behind that
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barrier in that Orthodox
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SPEAKER_00: synagogue in Paris?
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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when I learned about the construction of the tabernacle in
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Exodus 25 through 40,
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SPEAKER_00: I read about the Holy of Holies.
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SPEAKER_00: So the Holy of Holies is,
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SPEAKER_00: just like it sounds,
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SPEAKER_00: holiest area in the place of worship,
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SPEAKER_00: which housed the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was separated with a barrier from the rest of the people.
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SPEAKER_00: and the rest of the temple.
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SPEAKER_00: And only the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies,
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SPEAKER_00: nobody else,
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SPEAKER_00: to give sacrifices to God for our sins.
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SPEAKER_00: So this was a literal barrier between God and his people.
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SPEAKER_00: And the whole Old Testament,
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SPEAKER_00: if you think about it,
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SPEAKER_00: is about this barrier,
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SPEAKER_00: this separation between God and us,
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SPEAKER_00: because we're sinful and we cannot be reconciled to him until Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: You might know where I'm going with this,
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SPEAKER_00: but since I had never read the New Testament,
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imagine my surprise when I get to the part where Jesus is on
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the cross and suddenly
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SPEAKER_00: his temple garment,
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SPEAKER_00: his veil,
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SPEAKER_00: is torn from top to bottom.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: if someone,
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SPEAKER_00: if a person had torn it,
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SPEAKER_00: it would have been torn from the bottom up,
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SPEAKER_00: but this was not that.
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This was to symbolize the tearing down of that barrier between
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God and humanity.
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That barrier that I felt so strongly in that synagogue in Paris
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was now completely
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SPEAKER_00: torn away with Jesus and with my accepting him as my savior.
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SPEAKER_00: Whoa.
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SPEAKER_00: And just putting that whole story together,
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SPEAKER_00: it makes me practically tear up just thinking about it again.
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SPEAKER_00: Now the Bible is filled with so many rich lessons,
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SPEAKER_00: symbols,
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SPEAKER_00: hidden connections,
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SPEAKER_00: and most of all,
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reading the whole thing just deepens our relationship with God
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in such a profound way.
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SPEAKER_00: So after reading it once, a few months later, I decided to do it again.
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SPEAKER_00: You might already know that since January 1st,
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I started this not so minor project of recording a little video
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or posting some
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SPEAKER_00: sort of insight after every single episode.
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SPEAKER_00: Now that has been the gift that keeps on giving,
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SPEAKER_00: both through the awesome conversations and debates that it's led to,
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SPEAKER_00: but taking everything external out of it,
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it's been the biggest blessing to delve deeper into each of
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these chapters and
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SPEAKER_00: understand each one enough to contextualize it,
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SPEAKER_00: both in terms of relating it to other Bible passages,
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SPEAKER_00: but of course to our daily life.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to follow along with me on that journey,
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SPEAKER_00: my handle is Rebecca Arshean on both Instagram and TikTok.
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One of my constant prayers to God is for him to use me in any
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way that he can to
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SPEAKER_00: honor him and to bring others closer to him.
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So once I got comfortable with the idea of maybe starting a
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Christian podcast,
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SPEAKER_00: I just felt flooded with this sense of excitement,
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SPEAKER_00: but also content happiness,
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SPEAKER_00: just that I was doing the right thing.
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You know how they say that you can tell a real smile from a
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phony one because in a
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SPEAKER_00: real smile,
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SPEAKER_00: your eyes tend to smile too and get all crinkly at the edges?
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SPEAKER_00: So I swear to you,
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SPEAKER_00: whenever I feel the Holy Spirit working through me,
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SPEAKER_00: I have this feeling that I'm doing what I'm meant to be doing.
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SPEAKER_00: I just feel the biggest smile spreading across my face.
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SPEAKER_00: It feels like I'm literally just smiling with my eyes, not even my mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: So if I continue on this path,
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SPEAKER_00: I hope to report back in 10 years that I have terrible crow's feet.
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SPEAKER_00: And I pray that at least some of these episodes will inspire,
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SPEAKER_00: ignite,
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SPEAKER_00: awaken that sort of smile within you too.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you get those smiling eyes, crow's feet, sorry, not sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: At the end of every episode,
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SPEAKER_00: which we are getting to right now,
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SPEAKER_00: I am going to leave you guys with a meaningful Bible verse,
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either one that's on theme with the topic of the episode or
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just a favorite Bible
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SPEAKER_00: verse of whoever I'm interviewing.
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SPEAKER_00: So today I will leave you with this one,
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which has truly helped me get through some of the toughest
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times throughout my
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SPEAKER_00: unconventional faith journey.
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Because now I know that being a Christian certainly wasn't easy
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for the early
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SPEAKER_00: Christians who were persecuted,
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SPEAKER_00: and it's not easy today.
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our beliefs and values are increasingly at odds with the world
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we live in.
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SPEAKER_00: So here it is, John 16, 33.
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SPEAKER_00: I've said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.
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In the world you will have tribulation,
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but take heart,
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I have overcome the world.
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So thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening
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to this first
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SPEAKER_00: episode of Fulfilled,
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SPEAKER_00: and I can't wait to see you next time.