EP 198 – Dealing with Church Hurt

JimBo Stewart: [00:00:00] Here we are back at the bootcamp. Bob, I hope you're ready for the next episode. We are back at it again and loving life, living in the beach of the bootcamp over the summer. It's getting to see a lot of great things happen and enjoy the ministry that we get to do together. I, I wanna go back to our time in New Orleans for just a moment and just say, man, what a joy it was. to meet so many of you guys. If I'm, if I'm doing my math right, Bob, this is like episode 1 97 8 1 1 90. This is 1 99 right here. Bob Bickford: Yeah. It's a big episode, Jimbo, because the next one's 200 we've, I think we're gonna have, are we gonna rent out a hall and have dancers and like I think we're bringing in some like dragos, char grilled oysters and all of that kind of stuff. And JimBo Stewart: Yeah. Special invite only, uh, you should have already listeners, you should have already received the invite by the time this podcast goes live. And so if you got an invite, you know you're part of the upper echelon, of boot campers. Bob Bickford: So we're also fundraising for that event, if you can. JimBo Stewart: [00:01:00] Yeah. If, if you wanna secure, your invite to this non-existent event, then you can make your donations to us. And maybe we'll make an event if, if you'll fund it. Bob Bickford: man, 200. That's got to be a milestone because, didn't you say the average podcast quits after? Is it like seven episodes, Jimbo, or JimBo Stewart: think so when we started this, I mean we started this Bob some years ago and that was Bob Bickford: years JimBo Stewart: years ago. I mean, Bob, it was years ago. This was, I mean, Bob, it's, it's been three years since Covid started and we started before Covid. Bob Bickford: Oh my goodness. JimBo Stewart: I mean, so it is been a few years. Bob Bickford: It, it has, and I think it's been a wonderful three years. Jimbo, they've flown by like they were five minutes. JimBo Stewart: so, this is a tweet from someone named Jack Butcher that says 90% of podcasts don't get past episode three. That's 1.8 million who quit. Of the 200,000 left, 90% will quit after 20 [00:02:00] episodes. Bob Bickford: Wow. JimBo Stewart: I don't know who Jack Butcher is or if his Twitter is reliable source of information, but there's what the tweeters say. Bob Bickford: Well, there you go. And I think you looked up our ranking. I. in a podcast land in the category of religion, and we are at number 385. JimBo Stewart: Yeah. Yeah. you know, I feel like there's probably a lot of podcasts in that religion, spirituality section. Bob Bickford: Yeah, I would think so. JimBo Stewart: so, you know, we're top 500. I'm good with that. Bob Bickford: Yeah. There you go. JimBo Stewart: But honestly, it was so good to meet so many of you at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, and, so many of you came and shared even some of your stories and what God's doing in your ministries. And just know we love hearing from you guys. And so thank you to all of you that did find your way to us and talk to us and, share your stories and encourage us with how the podcast has helped you and, and even some of our food recommendations. And, and so we're [00:03:00] grateful for you guys. Obviously, without you, we wouldn't do this. I mean, Bob and I talk a lot. We just wouldn't record it. if, if nobody was gonna listen. Bob Bickford: