Beyond The Basics

Transcript:

Welcome to the Beyond the Basics Bible Study Podcast. My name is Dan Snyder and I am your host. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Beyond the Basics where we are exploring the Bible from Genesis to Revelation one chapter at a time.

Welcome to the last ever episode of the Beyond the Basics Bible Study Podcast. Yes, that’s right, you heard me correctly. This is the last episode of the Beyond the Basics Podcast, and I’ll get to why in a little bit.

But first, I’m sure you’re all wondering, or maybe not. But either way, I want to give you an update about why it’s been so long since I’ve released an episode.

Last time I released an episode, I believe it was in March or April, we finished up the Book of Genesis, chapter 50. And I told you guys in the next two to three months I would be releasing season two, the Book of John, and it’s now October and I haven’t released anything. Well, I wanted to give you a little update as to why.

First of all, life just kind of got in the way. My wife and I, my kids made the move up to South Carolina from Florida in January. I was working really, really hard during that time after that move to try and finish up the book of Genesis, get that all out to you guys in a timely manner. And it ended up taking up much more of my time than I could really devote to it. And when I started writing the book of John, realized I just did not have the time for this. So had to take a little bit of a step back.

Work was getting really, really busy. I was spending a lot of time at work, not as much time at home with the family, and so I needed to spend time with them as well. First things first, podcast is great, but it comes after all of those other things. So that’s reason number one.

Reason number two is as I was starting to go through the book of John, realized that I had been taught some things, many things from this particular book that may or may not be correct. And here’s what I mean.

You may be familiar with the scandal coming out of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, the allegations against Mike Bickle, which I believe to be very accurate and very credible. I’ve talked about that a couple of times, I believe, on this podcast. And Mike taught a lot from the book of John. I mean, a lot, a lot. Mike really was the only teacher that I was listening to for many, many years. And as all these allegations came out, as more and more news came out from the International House of Prayer, more and more allegations, more and more allegations of abuse, more and more proof that the prophetic history that they taught was a fabrication.

I found myself in a position where I had to really evaluate what I believed and theologically because I was all in. I was all into this IHOP thing. I really was. I never spent any significant amount of time there, but I was all in with prayer rooms around the country working towards day and night prayer, which is their big thing. If you’re not familiar with what IHOP was doing, it was all about day and night prayer with the goal of hastening the return of Jesus.

So anyway, I was all into that and found myself recognizing that I needed to really take a step back and evaluate, is any of the stuff that I learned from Mike biblical, is any of the stuff that they taught at IHOP biblical? And as I said, much of that teaching was from the book of John.

And as I started writing episodes for the book of John, I realized, oh my gosh, as I’m reading and writing, all I hear in my head is Mike Bickle’s voice. And that was a real problem. And I could not continue to go forward with writing episodes knowing that my main source of teaching from the book of John was from Mike. And I could not separate Mike’s voice from the Lord’s voice, which I’m sure you can see the problem with that. So I had to take a step back.

And I’m very thankful for my local church here, my pastor here in South Carolina. He introduced me to some resources that I was able to go through, learn just a much more solid biblical approach to teaching and to biblical interpretation. And I don’t know that I necessarily made any significant changes to how I interpret the Bible, but the changes came as in how I’m approaching scripture. And I feel for the first time that I’m looking at the Bible for what it says, not for what somebody else told me it says. So, it’s been very, very helpful. I feel like I’m in a much better place now to be able to teach.

I have started writing episodes on the book of John again. I’m about six episodes in now. I’ve written about six episodes. And it’s going much better. I have had to confront head on as I’m writing these episodes many of the things that I was taught before and recognize that maybe not all of them are necessarily wrong but they’re overblown and the focus, the author’s focus in the book of John may lie somewhere else. And so that’s what I’m wrestling with, that’s what I’m going through, that’s what I’m trying to focus on as I write these episodes.

So with that said, production on the next season has begun. Now you might say, “Dan, at the beginning of the episode, you just told me that this is the last episode of Beyond the Basics. How are you writing new episodes?”

Well, that’s the second half of this episode. Then I wanna share some new, exciting updates with you. Here’s the reason why this is the last Beyond the Basics episode. I’m gonna rebrand this podcast. I’m gonna give it a new name, new website, new logo, new everything. I think that this is the right time to do this. There’s a needed gap in chapter by chapter teaching.

With that in mind, I’ve decided that now is the time to rebrand. And so the new name for the podcast is going to be called The Gospel Thread. I feel that this title is a much more accurate descriptor of what I’m trying to do with the podcast, which is show how the gospel runs through the entire Bible from Old Testament to New Testament. That was a big focus of the study on the book of Genesis. Of course, every episode at the end of the episode, I showed how each chapter would point to Jesus.

So, that is the focus of what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to show how the gospel essentially is threaded throughout all the scriptures from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. So, that’s my purpose. And so, I think that’s a better title, a more accurate title.

With that is going to have to come a new website. I can’t use the Beyond the Basics website with a title for a podcast that’s completely different. So, there’s going to be a new website, new hosting platform. All the platforms that you get your podcasts from, it’s going to be on all of them. So that doesn’t change. You’re going to be able to still access the podcast from whatever you’re listening to it on, but it’s just going to be a different title.

There’s also going to be a new Patreon page and I would definitely encourage you to sign up there. There’s going to be a new pay structure. So instead of paying $4 a month, which is what it’s currently set at, it’s going to be a dollar an episode. And the reason for that is because that takes a lot of pressure off of me to try and pump out episodes when life gets busy. And if I don’t have time to release episodes, you’re not paying for them. You’re not paying for something that you’re not getting as a Patreon subscriber. So it benefits both of us.

I will never, at least at this point, as long as I’m working full time and doing this on the side, I will never release more than four to five episodes in a month. So the cost will essentially be the same. However, if I end up needing to take a break like I did this year, or if we have a holiday or whatever, and I’m not able to release an episode, you’re not paying for episodes that you’re not getting.

So those are gonna be the changes. There’s gonna be likely more tweaks as we go, but those are the major changes.

Right now I am looking at a target date for new episodes right around March 2nd. The reason for that is I want to have the entire book of John written and recorded and produced before I ever release an episode. That way I can start writing episodes for the next book of the Bible while those episodes for John are being released. And then hopefully by the time John is finished, then I’ll have more episodes ready to go for the next book. And that’ll be a much better cadence for me, much less stressful, much less busy cadence. And hopefully that’ll be good for you too. That’ll cut down on the amount of dead time in between seasons, so to speak, or between books of the Bible. So that’s the plan.

And thank you all for sticking with the show. Thank you all for all your encouragement. I’ve actually received a lot of great comments on the website, even in the last few months that I haven’t been releasing episodes. And there’s been significant uptick in web traffic, all that over the last several months, even when I haven’t been releasing episodes. So I’m excited for where this is gonna go.

I’ll publish that new website once it’s ready. I will also send out reminders. I’ll do a little bit of a trailer for the next episode once it comes out so that, uh, you don’t forget to look for the new title, The Gospel Thread. That is going to be the new title of the new podcast, The Gospel Thread.

All the, the, the backlog, so to speak of the previous episodes, all Genesis one through 50 will still be available on the website. I’m not getting rid of the old Beyond the Basics website just yet. Still gonna be available. Gonna be linked to the new website so you can kinda go back and forth and whatnot. You can still listen to those. I’ll fold all the old podcast episodes into the new podcast title so that you can still listen to those.

Would love to know what you think. Let me know your thoughts. Anything that I can do to present a better show or a better podcast to you. I’d love to hear it. Until then, I will talk to you later.