Episode 11: Ask Us Anything!

Season 12: Micah

6 Dec

Written By Podcasting Sisters

Sarah & Felicity answer questions submitted by our listeners in this bonus episode.

Questions include:

If you were a biscuit, what biscuit would you be? (2m 16sec)
Have you got any favourite family Christmas traditions and any recommendations for advent resources to use at home (2m 53sec)
Are there any more sisters or brothers and a bit more about our childhood (6m 51sec)
Which biblical person other than Jesus do you most look forward to meeting in glory? (10m)
What are your favourite types or genres of book to read? (11m 51sec)
What book or author has had the biggest influence on your life, or each of our lives? (13m 15sec)
How do we serve our local churches? (15m 52sec)
How do you manage to make the Bible a priority in a busy day when you aren't a morning person? (19m 14sec)
How have you grown in your Bible handling skills (21m 15sec)
Top tips for women who want to step out in teaching the word (24m 30sec)
Lots of the Bible takes so much work to understand. Is it inaccessible? And why not? (27m 10sec)
How long does it take to prepare each episode and how do you go about preparing? (30m 12sec)
How much does it cost to make an episode of your podcast? (32m 10sec)
How can we pray for the Two Sisters team this month? (33m 55sec)

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Felicity: Welcome to Two Sisters and a Cup of Tea. My name is Felicity and I'm here in the States and as ever I'm here with my sister Sarah. She's in the UK and this bonus episode is all about answering your questions. We've had some great questions come in from our listeners. We've got everything from biscuits to Bible stuff to more personal things and we're excited to just kind of have a chat really Sarah. Just bat these questions back and forth and see where we get to. Can't promise, you know, great profound wisdom but we do have biscuit and tea and all the enthusiasm.
Sarah: Absolutely, I'm looking forward to it. It's just such a great range of questions and yeah, let's get going.
Felicity: Indeed. Should I ask you this one? Because I feel like this is one that you... I think you've had a think about this one. If you were a biscuit, what biscuit would you be?
Sarah: Yeah, it's an interesting question in itself, isn't it? And I feel like I may have been thinking about it on the wrong level already. Now I read this question again. So in my head, I've been thinking, well, I'd like to be one of our homemade Christmas biscuits that we make each year, that we've been making since we were kids. And it's lovely, decorated, it's been thought, design has been thought through. But I don't necessarily think that correlates to me in everyway. So I'm not sure actually what I would say to this. Sorry. What would you say?
Felicity: Well I think you can conflate the two and it might also be true that the biscuit that you most desire might also be who you might be as well. I really do enjoy a chocolate hobnob. That is probably my favourite biscuit, but then I was thinking about it and I was thinking, I think I am quite like a chocolate hobnob. Hobnobs are kind of, they just kind of keep going. They're sort of sturdy just, they don't give up easily. Sometimes you, I think, would say that I'm a little too over enthusiastic and I just kind of just keep going down my road, whatever's happening. But also got some got some flair, some chocolate on top, some splash. So I think I'd be happy to be a hobnob if I was a biscuit I mean, this kind of philosophical route is fairly niche and I think we, I think, yeah, I agree.
Sarah: I think let's stop here. I feel like we've had one of these quite recently about what decorative biscuit would it be or something and yeah I think that's probably enough for that question right now. But thank you, thank you for the listener who took that question for us. Okay the next one is have you got any favourite family Christmas traditions and also tie in with this any recommendations for advent resources to use at home that kind of thing.
Felicity: Well, actually, many years ago when my children were much smaller, you, Sarah, used that design and all the things that you put into your Christmas biscuit making, got funnelled into making a kind of felt advent calendar for us with pockets and you each day you, so I put in a verse and some chocolate and we kind of every morning, that's what we do. And we still do that with our two boys. So that's our kind of like mainstay Advent thing. In terms of Christmas traditions, we just love to get into the Christmas music very early. Actually, possibly a little too early for my liking, but my husband is big into Christmas music. So we try and go to a kind of Christmas concert of some description. In terms of Advent resources, this is considering I am married to a bookseller and he is the king of resources. He's going to be very sad that I say this, but I just find it hard to complete an Advent resource so I have many on my shelf and I've enjoyed dipping into them. The dip is definitely a dip, it's not a kind of thorough going through. Last year I just read Luke's gospel throughout the course of December and I found that actually just quite simple and satisfying. Yeah, what about you?
Sarah: Yeah, nice. So in terms of Christmas traditions, mean, our kids are already asking when's the first of December? Not because that's when we put up the tree, but that's because when my husband gets his DJing decks out for the December, he's allowed them out for one month of the year. And that's what the kids are most excited about. So is it tying in with Christmas or is it just we've limited to like one month of it? I don't know. Is it my favourite, family favourite, I would say. In terms of Advent, yeah, I think in the past, over the last few years, I've been that kind of parent who's been really keen to like do all the things and slowly and surely I'm seeing that I can't do that. And that actually just really kind of simplifying what we do at Advent is the best thing for our family and the most manageable. So I just really enjoy the Advent candle with the names of Jesus. And I do like to get creative and I've got you know, little things I've made to go with it. But the simplicity of just dwelling on a name of Jesus each day and looking up a verse to do with that and just something that's very manageable. That really, yeah, we try and just keep it as, and I think this year we're just, yeah, we're planning on just memorizing a little bit of Isaiah chapter nine as well. Just something simple, manageable, and that helps us to look at Jesus. That's the plan anyway.
Felicity: Hmm, I love that
Sarah: Onto more family related things though, Felicity, a question here, they'd love to know whether there are any more sisters or brothers and a bit more about our childhood. How many years apart are we? Have we always been as friendly as we are now? Who's the most bossy? Have we always been as spiritually close? A lot of questions there, kick us off.
Felicity: Well, we do have a brother who we love dearly. He's the youngest. There are three of us and there's basically three years between, around about three years between all of us. I am the eldest. I actually don't know whether that comes across in this. I feel like sometimes I don't behave like the eldest. I don't know. I think the fact that you got married and had children before me, I felt like at that point maybe you leapfrogged over me a bit and there was a kind of wisdom that came with experience. I don't know. Have we always been as friendly as we are now? To be honest, no. I don't remember us really being friendly much up until I left home. We must have been. We must have been. But I do remember we used to fight a fair amount. Not like physical fighting, but you know, sisterly. We're very different. And I think that was more apparent when we were younger, especially in our teenage years. Yeah, what do you, interesting to hear actually what your take is on this.
Sarah: Yeah, and we both became Christians in our early 20s didn't we and that had a seismic shift it on our relationship I would say and wonderfully our brother then became a Christian in his 20s as well. And again, I think the depth of relationship and we have now as siblings is all credit to the Lord Jesus and in terms of how he has grown us and Enabled us. yeah, so I think. Yeah, we're just so, we're so thankful aren't we? But we haven't always been as spiritually close as we are now. And certainly the podcast has really propelled us in that. And you moving to the States gave us much more intentionality with our friendship and relationship. We really wanted to make sure, and hence the podcast was born out that, it? That we really wanted to keep the word central to our relationship. I think because we didn't grow up studying the words like this together, I think because we didn’t grow up studying the word together, there's always been a real excitement to do it now because it's such a privilege to do it together, isn't it? And it's such a joy to do it. Who's the most bossy? Yes, you, because you were older when we were younger. I feel like I probably have taken on some of that just because I like things to run in a certain way with this project that we do.
Felicity: Yeah, you're more detail-orientated, which maybe, know, if you're detail-orientated, then maybe there's a certain element of like, you need to control the way that things go, because I'm not gonna notice the detail aspects, which is very perplexing to you, so yes.
Sarah: All in all, very thankful that what we have here and just the gift from the Lord and with Ed, our brother as well. Felicity, which biblical person other than Jesus do you most look forward to meeting in glory?
Felicity: I mean, as I was thinking about this question, mean, there's a range of possibilities. Anyone who's made it into the Bible. Especially, I would, I just really love Isaiah. I've always really enjoyed just spending time in Isaiah. And I have previously in the past always wondered what I would chat with Isaiah about actually, because I love the profound obviously the profound riches, the truths, but he just is so, he writes it so beautifully. And I know the Lord has given him those words, but I would love to sit down and have a cup of tea with Isaiah. But I think that would, yeah, it'd be my choice. Wonder what biscuit he would be. No, I wouldn't ask him that. I wouldn't ask him that. What about you, Sarah?
Sarah: Am I allowed two? Obviously there's like so many choices, very hard to choose isn't there? But I would go for a cup of tea with the women at the well and just really want to hear how, how that interaction played out and just the beauty of her moment, her moment with Jesus alone. So I'd want to have a cup of tea with her. I'd also want to have a cup of tea with Eutychus, which is the guy who fell out the window and died in Acts because of Paul's sermon that lasted all night. And I'd really want to ask him, like, how was it waking up from the dead and still listening to the sermon? did you, you know, just like, I feel like there's a conversation to be had there and that always just makes me chuckle when I read that and I've read that recently. So there we go.
Felicity: I love that. That's good, that's good creative thinking on that. All right, thinking broadly, more broadly about books, not just the Bible, what are your favourite types or genres of book to read?
Sarah: Biography. Biography is up there, I think. It's just so powerful, particularly Christian biographies in terms of stirring faith and desire to keep growing and living for Jesus. I've just enjoyed a good murder mystery though, so that's quite unlike me to be reading that.
Felicity: Which surprised you, it surprised you didn't you? Sarah's not really a novel reader, that be fair? Yeah.
Sarah: It was a novel thing to read a novel last week. How about you?
Felicity: I am a devourer of books and I always have been really and fiction, I really love a good novel. I'm a bit of a novel snob really to be honest. I really like it to be well written and all things but the Thursday Murder Club, I also read that recently and that's been a joy recently. I do then really enjoy a really well written Christian book that helps me helps my heart, not just my kind of academic, but just I love it when a writer is able to explain a theological truth and in such a way that I am sort of thrilled by that. I'm not just interested, but I'm actually like heart level thrilled by that. So I'm always on the lookout for an author like that. Yeah.
Sarah: Yeah, big time. Well on that note then, our next question is what book or author has had the biggest influence on your life, or each of our lives?
Felicity: I find that quite a hard question actually because I think that books, the context in which you read them, the time of your life at which you read them, that can then mean that they have the biggest impact, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're the best book you've ever read. So in my 20s, I was living with my best friend and we were both single and we were trying to work out what life looks like as we get into the working world and everything and we were both reading a lot of Elizabeth Elliot and she really did shape me and my friend. We had just numerous conversations in response to her book. So I would say she was a big influence but also for my husband and I, we have spent a fair amount of time reading J.C. Ryle's devotions together. really?
Sarah: No, he's my choice. I can't say him.
Felicity: Yeah, we come back to him every time. He was writing a long time ago, but sorry to steal your thunder. Was that your guy?
Sarah: Timeless, timeless stuff, isn't it? Actually, yeah, so I wrote down similarly here. I've just got a list of a few different books, said seasons of influence. So there's different seasons of life where there's been particular books that have really impacted me. But J.C. Wells at the top of like, he's over every season in terms of how timeless his writing is in helping me to get back to Jesus and really see Jesus' heart. Yeah, so really, really recommend him. But particular books, even just over last couple of years, because I find it hard to actually think back further than that. I've been really impacted by Sally Clarkson's book, Life Giving Table, in just thinking about family life and rhythms. Gentle and Lowly by Dane Orland has just been a book that I've come back to a couple of times. David Gibson's book, Lord of Psalm 23, is just rich and beautiful and really heartwarming. And then Ed Welch's book on anger, a small book about a big problem. I've come back to that. I'm on my third read through now and I just can't recommend it enough in terms of the value of dwelling on that book for my own heart and for anyone else I'm praying for, but I absolutely echo that kind of, it's the seasons where different books, yeah, have influence, don't they?
Felicity: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Okay, so Sarah, here's a question. How do we serve our local churches? And we'd love to hear how you use your gifts outside of the podcast. We're big into local church, aren't we, Sarah? So tell us, what does it look like for you to serve your local church?
Sarah: I'm married to my pastor and so I feel like the first answer to that would be all of our life is pretty much orientated towards serving our local church. So it's not just about being on a particular team at church. Actually, our outer directory, our kind of orbit is seeking to serve our local church where we are. For me, particularly, that looks like trying to serve my husband well and serve alongside him, opening our home regularly to people in our home. And then I've always, yeah, up until this point, I've always served on a kids team at church and different rotas as a need. I think as a ministry family, we always see all the need and always feel like we need to meet that need. And one of the big challenges for my own heart is continually having to say, I don't need to meet all that need, even though I may see it more than others. And actually at the moment, I'm just in the process of stepping back from serving on a particular team. Because actually for our family dynamic at the moment, it's not helpful for me to be on that team. And that's been a wrestle because I can see the need. I can see that like it's going to be costly for other members of team there for me to step back for a season, but also, serving our family in the midst of the local church is also really key for us as a ministry family. So that's where we land on that. How about you?
Felicity: I have the privilege of kind of overseeing the women's ministry at our church and that kind of came about, I would say, quite organically. I love, love, love to disciple people by getting the word open. mean, literally, part of the reason why we do this podcast is because it is an overflow of how we do ministry in our local context. We've always been into getting the Bible open with people. And so when we moved to where we live now about five years ago, that was a kind of just a natural thing for me to get going and to start doing with women who I was meeting at church. And then out of that came a Bible study and then at this point, we've grown to the point where we now have more of a women's ministry going on. And I've just recalibrated a bit because we had a situation where I was stuck in the UK for four months and so actually things had to run without me doing my normal role. But that's been a really good thing actually. It just prompted me to step back and allow other people to step in and what does it look like then? I'm just thinking through what it looks like to keep discipling, but to think through on a wider scale how to encourage others to do that. I love to train and multiply the ministry and kind of help people catch that joy of getting the Bible open with others. So I'd say that's the kind of heartbeat of what we're about. Always looking for opportunities to do that.
Sarah: I did forget to say that, but I do love serving women at church and that is one of the primary ways I do serve at church. I forgot that, but that is the primary ways I do serve at church.
Felicity: A natural thing, a natural overflow of what we're about. Yeah, absolutely.
Sarah: Okay, how do you manage to make the Bible a priority in a busy day when you aren't a morning person?
Felicity: I was thinking, is this question saying so you therefore are not getting the Bible open first thing in the morning because you're not a morning person? So how else do you do it? That's what I was, yeah. So I think then, I think though, whether you're a morning person or not, it's not gonna happen by accident. So there has to be a deliberate intentionality about it. And I find if I need to do something, if I want to do something, if I write it in my calendar, in my diary, then that is more likely to happen. So I think I am a morning person, but if I wasn't a morning person, I think I would look ahead at my day, maybe even look ahead at my week and plan my week and decide, okay, as I sit down with my lunch, then this is when I'm get the Bible open. I think as well there are other ways of doing it. So the audio Bible, you know, we're partnering with Dwell for this episode. We both love the Dwell app for that reason. Just on the go wherever we're at, we can have the Bible going. I think as well I'm late to the game but I'm just getting into memorizing the Bible. I feel quite proud to say that because this really is late to the game and this is my first Psalm 16 on it, but it does mean that I am able to, I like therefore I'm able to chew on God's word at various different times. Any other wisdom Sarah on that?
Sarah: Yeah, no, I'd echo all of that. And there's different seasons of life, isn't there? know, in the I am a morning person, but actually I've had throes of life with tiny children where I'm not going to get my Bible open. Like when I've been up all night, like early in morning, that's just not going to happen. But as you say, the intentionality of there are snippets in the day where I can do this and whether it's on your commute or whether it's listening and memorizing. Memorizing really, really plays a really key role for me in just having that kind of turning over in my mind during the day. And even as I couldn't sleep last night, just being able to memorize and rehearse the verses I'm doing at the moment was just really helpful. So yeah, yeah, all those things.
Felicity: Yeah, okay. All right, so Sarah, have a go at this one. How have you grown in your Bible handling skills, formal, informal, both, whatever it is? So this idea of being able to get into the Bible for yourself.
Sarah: I mean, yeah, to be upfront, we've both had formal training in this, haven't we? But I'd say most of the ways that we've grown, the ways that I've grown certainly has been informal in just getting the Bible open with others over the years. But yeah, as part of kind of ministry training scheme, I went on a course for, you know, a ministry course for a couple of years and that was like one day a week and that was really formative. We were both part of serving on some camps for a number of years and that was very formative in terms of watching others opening the Bible with us and learning the skills of and seeing God's Word come to life and that was such a formative time for both of us. But I really do think like opening the Bible one to one with different women over the years and kind of seeing the word at work in lives and growing and particularly growing just doing it, doing it the more that we do it, particularly as we've kind of intentionally kind of sort of do that with the podcast over the last few years. We are always growing. We're always growing, aren't we? And I love that that you never arrive. It's always a process, but that kind of intentionality of I want to keep growing and so I'm going to keep doing this and who knows where that leads us. But yeah, that's a roundabout answer. What have you got to add?
Felicity: No, I think that's absolutely right. And the more you do it. The more you get into the Bible for yourself and with others and you're learning from others and even as you have to explain something to someone else, then that also helps as well. I think there's a whole, there's so many facets to it. And the more familiar we get with the Bible, the more we're gonna be able to find our bearings in it and therefore be able to understand what is being said and why and all of those things. So I think it is organic. As you said, I worked for a church for a few years, so I was trained in that context as well. So we have had the formal training, but I think that was the springboard to then in the informal settings. And it's something that we've both pursued, like we're eager to get better at it. And we say that to each other now as well. So it's not, as you say, it's not that we've arrived. Yeah, I think.
Sarah: And we don't take that for granted, we? I think like the Lord graciously has seems to have given us a very similar heart. It's been worked out in different contexts and we've never lived in the same place, have we? But yeah, we are continually thankful that the Lord has given us a very similar heart for wanting to keep growing in this and to train others in it as well. And training others, as I do with a couple of women at church. That keeps me growing because it's keeping, it's just continually keeping me thinking through, well, how do you best communicate this? How do you help someone else to see how are gonna get to this? And yeah, it's good, it's exciting. Okay, next one, linked. Top tips for women who want to step out in teaching the word.
Felicity: I love the heart, I love the desire. I think that if you feel that this is something that you're just kind of beginning to think about, it is something that you need to talk to, talk to someone else about. So we don't operate as lone rangers. It's not that I just want to go and teach the word, therefore I just need to strike out and do that. We're part of a body and we need to be just allowing God to use other people in our lives to just check, just kind of see is this something that I could do, is this something that I should do, is it something which fits into the context in which I'm in at the moment and what would that look like? In the church family setting I think that's the very absolutely essential setting in which you should consider doing this, then sit under the authority of your leaders and just ask the question. If at first step I would always say is on a one-to-one basis. It's not sort of stepping out onto a platform. It's actually, what does it look like just to do this, you know, in your kitchen with a cup of tea and get the Bible open and give it a go in that sense. And that's kind of just testing the water a bit, isn't it? But it's not simply testing the water because that is such a wonderful way of teaching the Bible. So I think we shouldn't be thinking teaching the Bible is, you know, standing up and giving a talk to a bunch of people. It can really be as equally valuable to sit down with an individual and explain something of Jesus to them through the word. So I think it's kind of having our understanding of what it is to teach the Bible in that sense.
Sarah: Yeah, definitely. And being willing to be teachable in it, isn't it? And looking for people who will kind of come alongside us and mentor us in that. And also looking for the opportunities in your church family where maybe people don't want to step up to teach, but you can see the need. And I'd say that knowing that there's always a need in kids' work, isn't there? But if you can teach the Bible to a bunch of four-year-olds, like that desire to teach, like you will learn so much by trying to condense a passage and teach, you know, teach that to four year olds. You learn, you know, you'll grow heaps in that in the same way that you'll seek to kind of teach women or whatever it is. So I think just, recognise that there's so many different areas that you can teach and look to kind of step into those needs, to keep, yeah, growing that desire and that skill as well. Yeah. Okay, Felicity, a bigger question here. Lots of the Bible takes so much work to understand. Is it inaccessible? And why not?
Felicity: Big, big question. There is truth in this. The Bible does take a lot of work to understand. If you think about what the Bible is, it is a collection of different genres of writing and often genres that we don't encounter in our normal everyday life. So to be able to read and understand what it says in the Bible, then we are going to have to work hard to understand the context, to understand the genres, to understand what the them then, the audience then, us now. It's not just a straightforward kind of application like that. So I would say that it is hard but that it is not inaccessible. So we know that God works through his word by his spirit and so every time we open the Bible we can be guaranteed that we are going to strike gold, there is the Lord is going to speak to us, he's going to shape us through this and there's not a perfect understanding of that. No one ever in all of humanity has had a perfect understanding of God's word because we're imperfect, we're human and so it's not that you have to kind of arrive. It's not that, we're going to overcome all these hurdles and then we're going to get to our perfect understanding of that. It's a journey. We are seeking to understand more and more of who God is and what he's doing. And as we dig into the word, that will become clearer, but it is going to take some hard work. And do you know, that's not a bad thing. I think it is actually, it's so rewarding and it's worth it. And there's not much in life that comes about just through it's just given to you on a plate. And there's something in working hard at it that actually, I think it even helps to give us clarity on what we're seeing and the delight in that as you like, there was the light bulb moments goes off and all those kinds of things. Well, what would you add, Sarah?
Sarah: Yeah, and I think just the fact that God is a God who wants to be known, like He's given us the whole of the Bible so that we may know Him. And that's the beginning of eternal life as Jesus says in John's Gospel, isn't it? This is eternal life that you may know me and the Father who sent me and just, yeah, God wants to be known. He's given us His word so that we may know Him. And so that is His desire and therefore we pray in light of that desire, Lord I want to know you. This feels really hard. I'm not quite sure, but please help me. Holy Spirit, please give me insight and understanding. That is my daily prayer before I come to the word. Lord, give me insight and understanding that I may know you better. And he is gracious to answer that prayer. And I think, you know, the simple prayers of, yeah, show me, show me more. And he will answer those. We're running out of time here, but we're gonna just, there's a couple of questions here just at the end on the podcast itself. So how long does it take to prepare each episode and how do you go about preparing?
Felicity: Well, I mean, the meat of our episodes is being in the Bible together. And so we do spend the majority of our preparation time being in that book of the Bible, in that passage, doing the hard work that we've just talked about. So that'd be it. That'd be a major part of it. We don't script our episodes. We are having a conversation off the cuff to a degree. We have a Google doc where we jot down ideas and things. So we're not taken by surprise by what the other person is thinking. And we have preamble chats a bit, don't we? Just to kind of sound out kind of what we're thinking and where we're there's all the technology which we're grateful for just finding our groove with that a bit more recently. So that hasn't taken quite as much time but yeah what am I missing Sarah?
Sarah: Yeah, I think we like to soak in a book of the Bible for a while before we press record. What you're hearing as you tune in for your episode for 20 minutes is the overflow and the result of quite a lot of soaking. So we're not just quick firing what we think in the moment. It's a starter of a conversation, but it's also the overflow of a lot of prayer and chat beforehand. And so we just want to make that really clear to people that, yeah, whilst it's not scripted, we just, we've spent time, we have spent time in Micah all summer. We've been really dwelling deeply in that book to then have these kinds of conversations. And then I'm teaching that with women in our church. And so that's another kind of dynamic element where it's coming out in different ways. So I think just the kind of reality that. We're choosing to live in these Bible books and the conversations that we record are then an overflow of that.
How much does it cost to make an episode of your podcast? I think for this one that we just can't put a number on an episode as such. But we're really thankful for this question because it acknowledges that actually whilst we always want to produce the content of the podcast for free. Actually, it's not free to produce the podcast. There are costs involved. Wonderfully, we have Helen and Hayley on board to help us manage and produce the podcast. We also employ someone to help with the editing now and some of the design for the kind of partnership packs and that kind of thing. And all the kind of behind the scenes things, the website and all the recording equipment. And there's a number of costs that kind of add up over the course of a year, so to speak.
And so we are just so thankful and we come to the end of this year and we're just so enormously thankful for anyone and everyone who has given to support us because we don't take that lightly. We know that that is sacrificial giving from the smallest to the largest amount. And we just, we are just so, so grateful that people would choose to kind of give towards this, that they think it's a valuable thing to keep for us to keep pressing record. So that's kind of where we land on that question. Felicity, the final question, why not round us up with this, how can we pray for the Two Sisters team this month? That's our final question.
Felicity: Thank you, thank you. What a question, just, we love, love, love. We've loved all these questions, but we really love this question because we really value prayer and we know that anything we're doing is of the Lord and it's only through him that he will establish our works. And so we pray, please pray for our hearts. Please pray that as we're in the Word together that we would be all about Jesus, we'd be all about our own hearts being shaped by the Word, that we would be soft-hearted in that. It wouldn't be about producing a podcast actually, that it would be about the Lord changing and shaping us and that that would never stop being the case. And so that this podcast would be an overflow of the Lord's work in us. And please pray that our hearts would be guarded in that. It's a funny thing, a public ministry kind of thing, dynamic, it's just a tightrope we walk. And so please pray that our hearts would be guarded in that, that we really would be eager for the Lord's glory above our own always. And please pray for wisdom as we just keep walking down this pathway. This is a huge privilege and we love the joy of this ministry that the Lord has given us. So please pray for us to continue to be wise and prayerful and to seek his name above all else. Yeah, any doubt about Sarah?
Sarah: Sounds pretty good to me. Very good. Well, what a joy. It's been so good to answer some of these questions, have this conversation. Thank you so much to everyone who sent in questions. We're sorry we've not been able to answer them all, but we hope that's given you a flavour of life behind the scenes for us. And we really look forward to getting stuck into season 13 in the new year. We hope you'll be joining us for that. In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas and we'll see you soon.
Felicity: See you soon, bye bye.
Sarah: We're grateful to partner with Dwell Bible App for this episode.