Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host Felicia Masonheimer 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

every woman is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. This is the first episode in our beginner believer

series. So this series is replacing the church history series that we were doing.

I had to pause that series because of the demands of our life at this stage so instead

we're going to do a series of shorter episodes answering questions that beginner

believers have so whether you are a new Christian or you're discipling a new

Christian, I hope that these episodes give a concise and applicable explanation

to many of the questions that you or your friends are asking in

those beginning stages of the Christian life. I know that when I was a new

believer I had so many questions and I was raised in a Christian home so I can't even

imagine for those of you who are coming to Christ later or coming to Christ

without a Christian background or family how intimidating this can feel and especially especially if you're discipling a younger believer,

sometimes you don't have the words to explain Christian beliefs because you've grown up in it or you've been in it so long that it almost feels like you don't know how to explain those beginning steps.

So wherever you are, whatever stage of life you're in, and whatever walk of life you're in and whatever walk of faith you're in I

pray that this series is helpful as you navigate the basics of Christianity and so

we're going to start with one of the most basic but

important questions and that is what is the gospel and why does it matter? Now

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