Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper

in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

everyone in is a theologian. Hello friends. Today we're talking about the

church, what it is, why it matters, why we should care. Quick little note before

we begin, my children are in the other room playing Legos, so if you hear a

rush of Lego blocks spilling onto the floor, that's what that is. Josh is out

shipping your orders from the every woman of theologian shop, and so I am on

duty today, and I am going to be sharing with you about theology while living my

very real life. So when I say every woman is a theologian, I really mean it. It is

something we can do in the middle of our everyday normal lives, including when

Legos are being dumped out next door. So in this episode, we are looking at a

ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the church. This doctrine is in chapter seven of the book,

Every Woman of theologian, and obviously it's one of those giant discussions,

especially in today's culture, that is super hard to condense into one tiny

chapter, but we're going to look at some of the high points of what the church is,

and how we can be the church in today's culture. So to give us a picture for this,

I want to describe for you the house that I grew up in. So my dad built the house I spent

almost all of my childhood in. He was only 28 years old when he and my mom bought this 15-acre farm,

and that's where he built the house that we grew up in. There were six of us kids. We grew up

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