Seth Gruber

filled to overflowing whenever he would take the pulpit.

He called out the sins of the laity and the clergy.

This enraged church officials.

This was Big Eva, okay, Ali?

Big Eva didn't like him.

And these schools, the brethren of the common life, passed without any attention in his time.

He dies in his early 40s.

It looked like nothing he had done had any impact, okay?

But from those schools, Ali, emerged...

nearly every single figure of the Protestant Reformation, including Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Martin Busser, Theodore Beza.

And until someone listened to this podcast, you probably never even heard of Gerhard Agrute.

And yet your life has been affected by how he lived out his Christian faith, that man's devotion.

had very little effect in his own generation, but he changed the world all the same.

That's the kind of stories we have to tell.

That's the kind of faithfulness we need now, Ali, where we're so upset.

Frankly, I'm ticked that we don't have the Epstein files like like we're like,

We can't trust anything.

People feel disenfranchised.

People feel like they can't trust anything.

And all of that makes a lot of sense.