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Hey, this is Jimmy and Annette and we are excited to be with you this evening.

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We are here today, Mr. Chevy is also with us. Annette, tell us where Mr. Chevy is.

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He's laying down on my lap very quietly. He's not moving. He's so excited because we've missed last week.

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I know, he's excited. Look at him. He's completely... Look at him.

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He's depressed. He's like, where have they been? Where are they now sitting?

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He's literally gone. He's laying across your lap like a blanket.

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That's cute.

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That's Chevy. He saw us getting ready for the show and he's like, yay, we're back.

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He literally gets excited. I've never seen a dog get excited like this.

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He gets excited, then he crawls up in your lap and goes to sleep.

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Best dog ever by the way.

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I would definitely recommend to have a Shawn.

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And we are puppy sitting Gracie for our daughter and new son-in-law.

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She's outside having a moment.

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I hope she's okay because we can't see her.

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She's shaking over in the corner of the yard because she gets traumatized.

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Because her mom is out of town and she has separation anxiety.

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She's very neurotic. We have a neurotic grand dog.

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We do.

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I know, grand puppy. She's strange.

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She's very strange.

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So anyway, she's out there having a moment.

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Tina came over this morning because we walked.

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Right.

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I had her walk up the hill.

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I need to know, how far did you all walk?

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We did four miles but we didn't go all the way up the hill. We went almost...

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She said next time we're going all the way up.

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Yarr freaking machines.

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I was trying to give her, get used to this.

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A little taste.

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She did wonderful. You would think that she's been doing this the whole time.

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Of course, I talked so much. I'm out of breath as I'm talking.

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And her legs are twice as long as yours.

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Yes.

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So one stride to your two, I think.

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Next time we walk, which is Wednesday, she's talking the whole time.

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Because I need to have breath.

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But we did. We walked all morning.

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She came in and she goes, do you always cover your couch with blankets every day?

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I said no.

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Blankets everywhere.

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It's because Gracie's here. New couch, leather, and it scratches easily.

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Which we bought it on purpose to do that.

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But we don't want it overly scratched.

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Right. It's the leather, it's that bomber look.

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So scratches are like whatever.

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But with her claws and her...

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You add two dogs on it, it gets bad.

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So we have to cover it.

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And the gaps, it kind of looks ghetto right now.

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Blankets of all kinds covering.

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Yes. That's our life.

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We're puppy sitting. That's what happens, our little grandpuppy.

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Well, welcome to the show. This is Jimmy Nanette.

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And we are living up in a down world.

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And what a world, what a world.

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As the Wicked Witch of the West said.

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Remember? What a world, what a world.

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Is that what she said?

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Yeah, that's when she got melted.

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Oh.

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Honey, remember your childhood trauma?

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No, you had childhood.

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Well, that show traumatized a whole generation

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with the Wicked Witch of the West.

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She was scary.

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She was scary.

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Freaky.

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Yes.

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I would not want to be known as the Wicked Witch of the West

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from Wizard of Oz.

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And she was forever top cast as that.

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How horrible is that?

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What a world, what a world.

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As she melted.

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Creepy, creepy.

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That's how I feel when I get rained on.

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I'm getting triggered right now.

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I feel like I'm melting.

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I'm triggered.

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Okay, let's move on.

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What were we talking about?

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Oh, the world.

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We're living up in a downed world.

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And for you who are listening and joining us,

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thanks for being with us.

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We're so excited that you're here because,

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first of all, we do this because we love you.

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We do this because we care.

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Even if we don't know you, we love you

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because God's put a love in our heart for the world.

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And so we're looking at, you know,

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any kind of avenue to get good news out there

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in the middle of a downed world.

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So that's what it's about.

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But just so you know,

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we're also talking about our own pain,

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our own traumas, our own...

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Victories.

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Our own victories.

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I mean, our butt God moments

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and our fully human moments.

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And I love what Pastor Robert Morris from Gateway Church,

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he says, we're divinely human.

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We're both.

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If you have Jesus in you, you're divinely human.

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Here it is.

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Because we have the divine in us,

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but we're also human,

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and we're going to have human moments.

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Chevy's having a fully dog moment right now

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as he is crashed.

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You know, all dogs do go to heaven.

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I do believe that.

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Now, I believe all animals go to heaven.

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Because why would God create animals

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and then say, well, they're only for earth,

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but when you get to heaven,

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you can only...

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Only your dog or cat.

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That doesn't make sense.

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We just settled this issue right now

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for anybody who's wondering what the Bible says.

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The Bible talks about...

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When it talks about heaven,

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it talks about the line,

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shall lay down with the lamb.

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There is an indication all through the scripture

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that there are animals in heaven,

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especially ours.

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And we'll be able to relate

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and have relationship with all the animals,

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and we won't have fear like we do with the snake.

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They're God's creation.

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Like when I was walking and I told Tina...

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Oh, yeah, we got snakes big time out there.

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The only reason why I said this to her,

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she laughed, I said,

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when we walk, I don't like to walk by myself

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because if there's a snake,

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I need someone to jump up on.

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So I will be jumping in your arms,

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and you will be doing weight lifting.

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Brace yourself, incoming.

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If I see a snake, because I have.

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I've walked over a coral snake before.

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Yeah, we have coral snakes out here.

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And it's scary.

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We have rattlesnakes.

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And all kinds of not-poison snakes.

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we won't be fearful when we see them in heaven,

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but I believe they'll be there.

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When the Bible says this,

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that in heaven the lion will lay down with the lamb,

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what does it say?

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Predator and victim.

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And no, no way.

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They're going to be in harmony,

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and that's the beauty of that.

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The thought of it makes me cringe right now

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because I'm terrified of snakes.

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It's innate.

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I believe it will just all be lifted.

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That's totally from the Garden of the Spirit.

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That was not planned, what we said.

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Totally unscripted.

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Life unscripted.

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This is very much unscripted.

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We do have a list, Adam Curry.

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We like our list.

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Yes.

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Especially in that.

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What you do.

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No, you like.

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Well, I like you doing the list.

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I know.

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And then I'll add to it last minute.

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I'm doing the work.

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I'm doing a lot of the work.

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So anyway, it's what a producer does.

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Right.

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Because I'm producing your show.

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So let's talk about why we didn't have a podcast last week.

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Right.

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So we did miss.

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We skipped.

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But it was for a good reason.

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We needed, well, we planned for a solid year for a trip to go to Nashville to the K. Love

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Fan Awards Experience.

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I mean, it was a full weekend experience.

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When people think of that, they just think of the awards show.

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Show.

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It is a whole weekend of events from Friday evening to Sunday evening.

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And I have to say, of all the trips we've taken, we've been to Paris, London, we've

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been to Dublin, we've been to Belfast.

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I've been to Guatemala.

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We've been to many ministry events.

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This is the best.

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But I will say, this was my favorite.

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Mine too.

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And you know, it's interesting because I looked at the agenda for the whole weekend, you know,

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because they constantly posted extra items on there and people that would be presenting

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or people that would be giving a concert.

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And so I constantly looked at it over the year that we planned this to kind of get an

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idea of what would happen.

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I had no idea, no idea that I would come back spiritually refreshed.

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Every time we take a vacation, I come back and I need a vacation from my vacation.

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This time I was so refreshed.

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I feel like I could run a marathon right now.

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It's that.

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You almost did this morning.

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Well, I almost did.

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But it was that good.

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And I was so glad you brought it up at church yesterday.

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Many people ended up signing up to go to K-Love next year.

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Let me give a little ovary for those who don't know.

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So what this is, this is a K-Love is like the number one Christian contemporary music

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and worship radio station in America, probably the world.

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And they're huge.

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I mean, it's a huge thing.

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But through the years, wherever we've lived, you've been able to access it.

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I mean, we can get it from Kerrville over here.

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We get another station maybe out of San Antonio.

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Or you can just stream it online, which is what everybody's doing now today anyway.

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Broadcast seems to be going out.

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But it's the same.

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There's an app and you can stream it right into your car or wherever.

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And so it's had a huge...

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What I love about this station, it's not just a radio station.

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They're a ministry.

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They have pastors on staff.

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They actually have pastors on staff.

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24 hours a day.

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24-7.

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You can call in and talk to a pastor.

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Yes.

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I think it's a remarkable ministry.

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And we talked about personally supporting it and starting to just offer personal...

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We always want to give into things where we see massive fruit happening.

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And we've got to witness it firsthand.

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So they do this thing every year.

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This was the 10th year they did it.

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I'm sure they skipped COVID year.

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But it's just the 10th year, 10th anniversary of what they call the K-Love Fan Music Awards.

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And it's a big show at the Grand Ole Opry, which was very cool to be at.

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Very cool.

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4,000 people, packed house.

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I mean, it's sold out.

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It sells out every year.

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And it's just this amazing weekend of connecting with beautiful people.

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Man, I had some really profound spiritual moments.

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You did.

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Amazing how many single women came to this three-day event by themselves.

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I know, because they're so ministered to by the radio station that they were like,

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we want to be a part of this.

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So we met lots of people.

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I didn't meet any dudes that were there by themselves,

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but it seems like everywhere we sat there would be a lady by herself.

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And some of the people with us would connect with her and then she would connect them with us.

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What was cool about this, I mean, there's so many good things to talk about.

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But one of the things that really made my heart...

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I'm almost emotional talking about it because it was so beautiful.

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Every time we sat down for another presentation,

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and we'll talk a little bit about what the different things they did,

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I would just turn or the person sitting next to me who was a complete stranger from somewhere else in America,

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would turn and say, hey, my name is so-and-so.

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What's your name and where are you from?

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Or I would do that to somebody sitting beside me on the other side.

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And because it was full, you're always sitting by people.

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And so you were just meeting brothers and sisters in Christ.

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It's the family.

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Family.

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Spiritual family.

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I mean, we may have differences in the things that we prefer or things that we do on a regular basis,

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but the one thing that we have in common is Jesus Christ, period.

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That's spiritual family.

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That is spiritual family.

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And so we met so many different people.

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One incident I have to tell you, this lady Annette was talking to some friends of ours,

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Christy Clocker and Cheryl Brown.

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Cheryl's from Corpus Christi.

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And Christy used to be a part of our church, very involved.

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She's the one who told us that we needed to go.

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She totally family'd us.

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Yes.

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Her and her husband, they moved to another area of Texas out in the country over kind of by north of Conroe, that area.

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Still part of our family.

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Oh, they're totally part of our family.

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So she went last year and she was so blown away.

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She said, Jimmy and Annette, you guys have got to go.

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As much as you love music, this is you.

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This is you.

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You've got to go.

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And I signed up that day.

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So we did.

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A year ago, we signed up.

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We started making, we saved for this.

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We put money back.

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And so we went to this big event and it was so beautiful.

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So they're talking to Christy, or Annette's talking to Christy and Cheryl.

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So there's a chair and then another lady sitting there.

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And it was on Sunday morning and Chris Tomlin was going to be leading worship.

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Chris Tomlin leading worship was phenomenal.

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Chris Tomlin with his band leading your worship service.

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I kept pinching myself going, is this real?

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This is very surreal.

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And for those of you who are not involved in the Christian world, just know there's a culture.

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It's like anything.

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Everybody has a culture.

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And so our culture is this.

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God reached me through music was one of the big avenues in which God reached me, nurtured me, taught me to this day.

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I play almost every Sunday on our worship team because I love it so much.

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And so even though I'm a lead pastor and I preach, I still lead guitar player because it's in me.

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God put that in me at an early age.

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And so God used music to touch me.

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So to go to something like this, it's just like I'm a kid in a candy store.

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And you were too.

326
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We both were.

327
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I felt like that.

328
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So I'm sitting there.

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There's a space between me and this lady.

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I see her and she's kind of to herself.

331
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And I just say, Hey, my name's Jimmy.

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Where are you from?

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She told me her name.

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She's from Detroit.

335
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And I said, so are you here with anyone?

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She said, no, I'm by myself.

337
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I said, you came here by yourself from Detroit?

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It's amazing.

339
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And she said, yeah.

340
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She said, I said, well, how are you enjoying it?

341
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She goes, best thing I've ever done.

342
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And so I said, us too.

343
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We were just talking about it.

344
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Another lady walks up and says, Hey, is somebody she had met the day before?

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Yes.

346
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And I said, I met another lady that had nobody with her.

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And they stood up and gave each other a hug.

348
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And I said, what about my hug?

349
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And the lady hugged me.

350
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And then we introduced ourselves to each other.

351
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And that's the beauty of the body of Christ is you can meet people from other places

352
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and you already know your family.

353
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Yes.

354
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And we're going to see each other.

355
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I don't know how heaven works exactly, but I know.

356
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Yes.

357
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We may never see them again in this lifetime.

358
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But we will see them.

359
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And know that we know them.

360
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Yeah.

361
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Well, another beautiful thing happened.

362
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Her friend, another person came up and sat down with her.

363
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And she was from Louisiana.

364
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And so they're sitting there talking.

365
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And then she introduces her to me.

366
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And she says, so what do you do?

367
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I said, well, I'm a pastor in Fredericksburg, Texas.

368
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And then the lady from Louisiana said, Fredericksburg?

369
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I know Fredericksburg.

370
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We're coming to your church.

371
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And then as we were talking, they wrote down the name of the church, our podcast.

372
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And they were like, we're going to listen.

373
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So for you precious ladies, if you're listening to the podcast, just know you're seen, you're

374
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heard, you're known, and you're loved.

375
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And it impacted you.

376
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It really impacted you.

377
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It really did, deeply.

378
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You just kept saying, gosh, look at these spiritual family that we're meeting, people

379
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that live in many other states, many, many miles away.

380
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And yet, they're family.

381
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And they came and we all were.

382
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You were so blown away.

383
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You were very emotional.

384
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I cried.

385
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And then we sit down at the awards and one of the ladies, because they assign our seating

386
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when you sign up, which was a year ago.

387
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Oh, right.

388
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And what are the chances that one of those ladies that you met, that I met.

389
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One of the ladies I talked to, precious older lady.

390
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Sitting next to us.

391
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We all just laughed.

392
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I said, we know you.

393
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And she said, oh my gosh.

394
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She's like, oh my gosh.

395
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And so we sat down and so we enjoyed the show together.

396
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But that's the power of spiritual family.

397
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One of the things that people in the world, and even before I was a Christian, I longed

398
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to connect.

399
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I mean, God, whether you know this or not, even if you're not a follower of Jesus, just

400
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so you know this, you have been wired to connect.

401
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You were designed for a relationship.

402
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We're designed for a relationship.

403
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You're designed for community.

404
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With God and with people.

405
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Exactly.

406
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Community.

407
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Common unity.

408
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That's what community is.

409
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And so when you come into an environment like that where, oh gosh, and then standing outside

410
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the Grand Ole Opry while we're waiting for the show, there's this big huge line and all

411
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the artists are showing up.

412
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It's red carpet.

413
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It's the red carpet moment.

414
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We didn't go up to it.

415
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I was like, eh, I'm good.

416
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So we stood back from that and enjoyed the weather.

417
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It was a beautiful evening and tons of people.

418
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And then we just started another conversation with another family.

419
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And it was just, you never felt alone.

420
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Right.

421
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You never felt like you didn't belong.

422
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Right.

423
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Because it was people from all walks of life.

424
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We saw, and I mean this in the right kind of way, we saw people that were physically

425
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impaired, or even mentally challenged, and people that were obviously hurting all there,

426
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enjoying the music and celebrating in presence of God.

427
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But then we saw people that were from upper echelons of society.

428
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You could tell.

429
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And all together in this place, the ground is level.

430
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The ground is level.

431
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You're going to cry, aren't you?

432
00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:02,980
Yeah.

433
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It's true.

434
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It's because it's beautiful.

435
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That's what heaven is.

436
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We all, we're all, none of us are like another.

437
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We're all unique.

438
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He makes us, we're masterpieces.

439
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Come on.

440
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We're masterpieces.

441
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And we're uniquely made and formed.

442
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And we're all different with all different characteristics.

443
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But the one thing we have in common is love.

444
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And God is love.

445
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It's love.

446
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It's Jesus.

447
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You're crying.

448
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I'm crying.

449
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I know.

450
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Oh my gosh.

451
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It was really impactful.

452
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It was.

453
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Which is why we were telling everybody yesterday, they've got to go.

454
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They've got to go.

455
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From the pulpit, I didn't say that.

456
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I was just told a story.

457
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But I did after you told the story.

458
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I told the story about community.

459
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Yes.

460
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Because of the power of community.

461
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And actually it was an audible because I actually planned to preach something else.

462
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And on Saturday I felt like God called an audible in my heart.

463
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And so I went with the audible instead of the series.

464
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Because series is great, you know.

465
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But life happens and you need to direct.

466
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That's being directed by the Holy Spirit.

467
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Exactly.

468
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But anyway, back to this idea of community.

469
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We are hardwired.

470
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We're created to connect.

471
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Connection is protection.

472
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And so.

473
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It's why when we're separated from people like we were at COVID.

474
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COVID did such damage.

475
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It did such a number on us.

476
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Oh my goodness.

477
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So much damage on COVID.

478
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I mean Faith.

479
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Okay.

480
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Our daughter Faith.

481
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She has, well she had a therapist tell her or a counselor at one point tell her she was autistic.

482
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We had figured out.

483
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You just say she's hyper introverted.

484
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Yes.

485
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That's another way to say it.

486
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We figured out later that she's probably not.

487
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But she is hyper introverted.

488
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But during COVID when typically someone like her would be like, yes, I don't have to deal with people.

489
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She went nuts.

490
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I was surprised.

491
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She was like, I'm moving to Nashville.

492
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I said, what?

493
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I'm going to go move with our family there because I need.

494
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She needed connection.

495
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We live out in the country.

496
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So there was no connection.

497
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We were like, what?

498
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Yeah.

499
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Okay.

500
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If that's what you need.

501
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Hardwired connection.

502
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Even though she's an introvert.

503
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She needs people.

504
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She needs people.

505
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And we all need people.

506
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And so do you.

507
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If you're watching or listening to this right now, the bottom line is you need to connect.

508
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God creates this incredible community called the body of Christ.

509
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Now, albeit people get hurt in the body of Christ because anywhere there's people, we

510
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bring our, I'm going to say it because this is what we are.

511
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We bring our crap to the table.

512
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That's true.

513
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We have backers.

514
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Our brokenness.

515
00:19:37,980 --> 00:19:38,980
We are Mr. and Ms. Dumpty.

516
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And so we bring our broken shards into a place.

517
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And so dysfunctional plus dysfunctional never equals functional.

518
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Right?

519
00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:52,980
So within a church community or a Christian community, there's always going to be things

520
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that don't work right.

521
00:19:54,980 --> 00:19:55,980
There's going to be hurt.

522
00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:56,980
There's going to be damage.

523
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Hurt people, hurt people.

524
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Broken people, break people.

525
00:19:59,980 --> 00:20:04,980
Traumatized people sometimes beget trauma.

526
00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:08,980
But God is the ultimate healer of all of that.

527
00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:13,980
So what I wanted to say about that though is that you put all that together, you can't

528
00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:14,980
expect perfection.

529
00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:15,980
Exactly.

530
00:20:15,980 --> 00:20:20,980
You can't expect this blissful, I'm going to go to church where everybody's got it together.

531
00:20:20,980 --> 00:20:21,980
Right.

532
00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:22,980
Because we're all in process.

533
00:20:22,980 --> 00:20:24,980
We're going to church because we don't have it together.

534
00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:25,980
Exactly.

535
00:20:25,980 --> 00:20:27,980
But we're all in process of being healed.

536
00:20:27,980 --> 00:20:29,980
You know what I'm saying?

537
00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:33,980
And God, sometimes it doesn't happen overnight.

538
00:20:33,980 --> 00:20:34,980
It's a process.

539
00:20:34,980 --> 00:20:39,980
But we're all together in one place going through the process.

540
00:20:39,980 --> 00:20:40,980
Exactly.

541
00:20:40,980 --> 00:20:46,500
So we translate that understanding into this trip that we went on where we're in a group

542
00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:50,780
of Christians bringing all their brokenness, I'll call it Samsonite.

543
00:20:50,780 --> 00:20:57,380
They're bringing all their luggage, all their baggage into this one place and allowing music,

544
00:20:57,380 --> 00:21:01,980
allowing the power of music and artistry to lift that load.

545
00:21:01,980 --> 00:21:02,980
Exactly.

546
00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:11,980
And I watched it right, the whole experience I was watching God lift pain, trauma, damage.

547
00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:16,980
Well, I think what was interesting, the songwriter's part of…

548
00:21:16,980 --> 00:21:17,980
Tell about that.

549
00:21:17,980 --> 00:21:18,980
That was amazing.

550
00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:19,980
What was it called?

551
00:21:19,980 --> 00:21:20,980
Songwriter's Round.

552
00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:22,660
This is a Nashville thing.

553
00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:24,660
Bluebird Cafe started this years ago.

554
00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:25,660
Yes.

555
00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:29,220
And they do this at the K-Love Awards on, I think they did it on Saturday afternoon and

556
00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:35,900
Saturday evening where the artist would, they would put three or four artists on the stage.

557
00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:39,740
They would have either, if they play guitar, they would have their guitar with them.

558
00:21:39,740 --> 00:21:44,900
If they had, if they didn't play an instrument, they would have someone have an instrument

559
00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:46,340
that played with them.

560
00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:52,580
They would talk about their song, how they wrote it, how it came about, the season they

561
00:21:52,580 --> 00:21:55,460
were in and then they would sing the song.

562
00:21:55,460 --> 00:21:58,580
So we heard at least 30 artists, if not more.

563
00:21:58,580 --> 00:22:03,580
I think it was more between 30 and 40 artists over the three, four day period.

564
00:22:03,580 --> 00:22:04,580
Oh, easily, yeah.

565
00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:14,660
But it was, that was, I can't even describe those sessions of what we heard on Saturday

566
00:22:14,660 --> 00:22:19,140
afternoon and Saturday night, what that did to my heart.

567
00:22:19,140 --> 00:22:25,500
It made me appreciate the song so much more than just hearing them on the radio.

568
00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:28,500
Now I have context.

569
00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:33,140
Oh my goodness, now when I hear it, I'm going to cry again.

570
00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:37,900
I almost have this visceral reaction because I feel what the artists felt when they were

571
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,940
writing this song, when it hit them.

572
00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:45,940
There is something special about that, that you can't, if when you're hearing something

573
00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:48,140
on the radio, you're just hearing it on the radio.

574
00:22:48,140 --> 00:22:49,140
No context.

575
00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:53,340
When you go on, when you hear it, when you, when they go on tour and you attend, they

576
00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:55,300
have a chance to tell you.

577
00:22:55,300 --> 00:23:01,300
But coming to this, they really can expand it because they're talking about that one

578
00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:07,820
song and singing that, but they have the time and energy to really expand on it.

579
00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:09,620
I was so moved.

580
00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:11,740
I think I was in tears.

581
00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:20,260
I told Jimmy, this is the most spiritual event I've ever been to.

582
00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:25,260
And yet this was an award show, but it was so, I, it just, I can't even, I can't even

583
00:23:25,260 --> 00:23:28,780
describe it, which is why we already signed up for next year.

584
00:23:28,780 --> 00:23:30,780
We registered immediately for the next show.

585
00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:33,340
I can't, we have to.

586
00:23:33,340 --> 00:23:36,180
Because music is so powerful for us.

587
00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:39,500
It ministers to us in places.

588
00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:44,160
You hear truth differently through music than you do through spoken.

589
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:50,860
They're both valid and both needed or what you read or a podcast you listen to or whatever.

590
00:23:50,860 --> 00:23:53,620
Music touches a different place.

591
00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:57,700
It impacts and activates different parts of your brain and your mind.

592
00:23:57,700 --> 00:24:02,020
I mean, even from a physiological standpoint and a psychological standpoint.

593
00:24:02,020 --> 00:24:08,340
So I love every avenue of getting truth that God wants to give us.

594
00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:12,900
And what I thought was interesting is all the songs that these artists were talking

595
00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:19,260
about Lauren Daigle, Stephen Curtis Chapman, let's start naming.

596
00:24:19,260 --> 00:24:20,260
Rachel Lampe.

597
00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:22,780
Rachel Lampe, Tasha Layton.

598
00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:25,260
Brandon Heaton, Brandon Heath.

599
00:24:25,260 --> 00:24:26,260
Brandon Lake.

600
00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:27,940
Brandon Lake.

601
00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:28,940
You name it.

602
00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:29,940
Cody Carms.

603
00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:30,940
Michael Cochran.

604
00:24:30,940 --> 00:24:31,940
Oh, Cochran and Company.

605
00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:34,820
One of my favorites.

606
00:24:34,820 --> 00:24:38,500
What I loved about what they were talking about is most of the new songs that we're

607
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:41,540
hearing today came out of the pandemic.

608
00:24:41,540 --> 00:24:45,740
The pain that they experienced through the pandemic.

609
00:24:45,740 --> 00:24:50,380
Because we think we look at these artists, we look at preachers, we look at people that

610
00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:54,540
are in the spotlight and think, oh, they don't have a problem in the world because they have

611
00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:58,140
all this money or they have all this fame.

612
00:24:58,140 --> 00:24:59,140
No.

613
00:24:59,140 --> 00:25:04,380
The artists, when they write these songs, they write out of what's happening in their

614
00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:05,380
life.

615
00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:06,380
Exactly.

616
00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:13,580
Or if they're not writing, when a songwriter is writing a song for them to listen to, they

617
00:25:13,580 --> 00:25:16,980
can say, nope, that doesn't register with me.

618
00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:17,980
That's not me.

619
00:25:17,980 --> 00:25:18,980
I don't connect with it.

620
00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:19,980
Yes.

621
00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:25,260
What I love is they look for songs that they can connect to because it's when they sing

622
00:25:25,260 --> 00:25:29,540
it with their emotion, when they feel it, that's when we feel it.

623
00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:30,540
Can I give an example?

624
00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:31,540
Yes.

625
00:25:31,540 --> 00:25:32,540
Brandon Lake.

626
00:25:32,540 --> 00:25:33,540
Oh my gosh, Gratitude.

627
00:25:33,540 --> 00:25:36,960
So there's a great song that Brandon Lake wrote.

628
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,540
He wrote it actually in Sydney, Australia, right outside the massive amphitheater that's

629
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:44,860
very famous on the bay.

630
00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:47,660
He wrote it and the song is called Gratitude.

631
00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:54,540
He wrote the song and he even thought to himself, when you're compiling songs for an album project,

632
00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:57,900
sometimes you think, gosh, this feels like a hit or this feels like this isn't going

633
00:25:57,900 --> 00:25:59,260
to get traction.

634
00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:02,020
Then sometimes you go, this may not.

635
00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:07,020
He wrote Gratitude sitting there and didn't feel like this was going to get traction.

636
00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:12,140
So they cut the song in the studio and he got it back and he was listening to it and

637
00:26:12,140 --> 00:26:15,180
he was like, this does not connect at all.

638
00:26:15,180 --> 00:26:16,180
Which is crazy.

639
00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:19,860
Well, because it's too clean, it's too perfected.

640
00:26:19,860 --> 00:26:20,860
He sent it back.

641
00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:25,420
They did four iterations of that song and finally Brandon said, you know what?

642
00:26:25,420 --> 00:26:27,380
None of this is touching me.

643
00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:30,020
He said, I'm going to get on a stage.

644
00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:31,980
I'm going to have a crack because it'd be during a service.

645
00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:34,540
I'm going to have a band.

646
00:26:34,540 --> 00:26:37,140
I'm going to do it live and I'm going to sing my heart out.

647
00:26:37,140 --> 00:26:38,940
I'm just going to sing it with an acoustic guitar.

648
00:26:38,940 --> 00:26:40,420
I'm just going to go with it.

649
00:26:40,420 --> 00:26:46,020
And so he gets on the stage and so the version you hear on the radio that ended up making

650
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:52,400
it was the live version that he cut doing it in real time from his heart.

651
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:57,540
Very few edits, just straight up throw up some microphones and record.

652
00:26:57,540 --> 00:27:01,180
And that's the one that became song of the year.

653
00:27:01,180 --> 00:27:02,180
He's artist of the year.

654
00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:08,860
He had three different categories, maybe worship artist of the year, worship song of the year.

655
00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:13,460
Anyway, he won three different categories and it's the first time he's ever won anything.

656
00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:14,980
And he's just like so blown away.

657
00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:16,780
And he says, he has gratitude, which I love.

658
00:27:16,780 --> 00:27:17,780
He told the story.

659
00:27:17,780 --> 00:27:20,980
He said, this wasn't even, we didn't even know if this would make the album.

660
00:27:20,980 --> 00:27:21,980
Which is crazy.

661
00:27:21,980 --> 00:27:24,060
And it becomes the number one.

662
00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:30,780
And now it's given him the desire to just to look for more songs like that, that will

663
00:27:30,780 --> 00:27:34,540
minister to the hearts of people and connect them to God.

664
00:27:34,540 --> 00:27:38,580
That's the whole point of Christian music is to connect us with God.

665
00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:42,180
It's not so we can feel good because we like the tune.

666
00:27:42,180 --> 00:27:47,180
It's so we can connect with God, therefore we can connect with people.

667
00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:48,540
I'm looking at a picture here.

668
00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:51,660
I just pull up my pictures because I took a billion pictures.

669
00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:52,740
That's me.

670
00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:59,380
Brandon Heath, Brad Breams, I think his name, Rachel Lampe, Cody Karnes, and then a group

671
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:00,820
called Consumed by Fire.

672
00:28:00,820 --> 00:28:02,620
Oh, they were amazing.

673
00:28:02,620 --> 00:28:05,060
All on the stage together.

674
00:28:05,060 --> 00:28:09,540
And each of them doing this writers round and telling stories about the songs.

675
00:28:09,540 --> 00:28:11,020
They had three of those sections.

676
00:28:11,020 --> 00:28:14,500
This was the emerging artists, which some of them are already been established.

677
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,780
It was kind of a weird category.

678
00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:18,620
But it was so casual.

679
00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:21,060
They're sitting on stools with a guitar or keyboard.

680
00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:23,300
And you know what happened to me during that time?

681
00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:24,300
Talk to me.

682
00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:25,300
Oh, yeah, yeah.

683
00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:26,300
Yeah.

684
00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:27,300
Yeah.

685
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:32,660
They, most of them had acoustic guitars because most of them played the acoustic guitar.

686
00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:38,820
And I felt like the Lord, the Lord reminded me of when you would play your acoustic guitar

687
00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:44,140
and we would sit in the living room, we would have people over and you would lead us in

688
00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:45,140
worship.

689
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:49,660
And it was the most powerful times of our life.

690
00:28:49,660 --> 00:28:51,820
And we have not done that in years.

691
00:28:51,820 --> 00:28:57,980
I remember a few weeks ago, you said, you know, I just don't feel called to sing anymore.

692
00:28:57,980 --> 00:28:58,980
That's just not my thing.

693
00:28:58,980 --> 00:29:00,980
And I said, yeah, you're right.

694
00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:06,380
During this time watching that, the Lord said it's time for him to get out his acoustic

695
00:29:06,380 --> 00:29:07,380
guitar.

696
00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:11,460
And I said, for real, just for your sake, listening, I didn't hear that.

697
00:29:11,460 --> 00:29:12,460
And that did.

698
00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:13,460
I did.

699
00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:14,460
I know.

700
00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:15,620
But I really, but what did you do?

701
00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:16,620
You went and got it.

702
00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:17,620
It's hanging on the wall.

703
00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:22,620
Acoustic guitar out of, I put up actually one of my electric guitars in a case in the

704
00:29:22,620 --> 00:29:23,620
closet.

705
00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:24,620
I know it's a miracle.

706
00:29:24,620 --> 00:29:25,620
It's freaking me out.

707
00:29:25,620 --> 00:29:26,620
You hung it up.

708
00:29:26,620 --> 00:29:29,540
Pulled out the acoustic guitar, tuned it up, which it was freakishly in tune.

709
00:29:29,540 --> 00:29:30,540
I hadn't played the guitar in years.

710
00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:32,580
Because God is in this, Jimmy.

711
00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:34,820
It was actually almost in tune.

712
00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:35,820
And then I picked it up.

713
00:29:35,820 --> 00:29:36,820
I started strumming it last night.

714
00:29:36,820 --> 00:29:39,260
And I thought, you know, it's time to sing again.

715
00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:42,340
It's time to kind of revisit some of my roots.

716
00:29:42,340 --> 00:29:43,340
It's your roots.

717
00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:44,700
That's what brought me to you.

718
00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:46,340
I mean, literally when we were first.

719
00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:48,980
I led worship that first time.

720
00:29:48,980 --> 00:29:52,940
And then while we were, when we were first married, we would have people over.

721
00:29:52,940 --> 00:29:54,740
We would have a connect group.

722
00:29:54,740 --> 00:29:57,780
That's how we started a church, River of Life in Brownwood, Texas.

723
00:29:57,780 --> 00:30:00,860
We started a church with young people.

724
00:30:00,860 --> 00:30:06,340
I used to take groups of young people down to Mexico, down the Baja side of Mexico, down

725
00:30:06,340 --> 00:30:10,940
past Ensenada, down in this little village called Guerrero.

726
00:30:10,940 --> 00:30:13,980
We do these mission trips with students.

727
00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:16,700
And half the trip was worship.

728
00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:20,020
We'd sit around in a circle and worship God.

729
00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:22,180
And it was powerful, powerful times.

730
00:30:22,180 --> 00:30:25,580
I started a worship band at the church.

731
00:30:25,580 --> 00:30:26,580
So amazing.

732
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:27,580
It really was.

733
00:30:27,580 --> 00:30:28,580
Some amazing young people.

734
00:30:28,580 --> 00:30:29,580
I was on that band.

735
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:30,580
I was in that band, which is crazy.

736
00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:31,580
Matt Paddock, Joey Bullman.

737
00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:32,580
I mean, just amazing young men.

738
00:30:32,580 --> 00:30:35,580
It was Casey and Chris.

739
00:30:35,580 --> 00:30:37,500
Matt and Joey are both pastors now.

740
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,300
Yes, and Casey and Chris are pastors.

741
00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:40,780
Casey and Chris are pastors.

742
00:30:40,780 --> 00:30:46,500
And we would be asked to go to different events and be the actual worship.

743
00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:47,620
Oh yeah, we did.

744
00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:49,500
We did some stuff outside of that.

745
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:50,500
It's amazing.

746
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:51,500
Crazy.

747
00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:52,500
So amazing.

748
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:53,500
We did youth camps.

749
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:54,500
Yes.

750
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,580
And God told me this weekend, I know it was Him.

751
00:30:56,580 --> 00:30:59,980
I don't hear an audible voice, but I felt it in my heart.

752
00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:02,460
God said it's time to revisit that.

753
00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:05,340
You were very emotional when you were telling me that.

754
00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:08,060
And tears, because I know it was God.

755
00:31:08,060 --> 00:31:12,100
Because I had agreed with you a few weeks ago when you said, yeah, I'm just not really

756
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:13,100
that.

757
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:14,100
I'm older now.

758
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:15,100
I'm older now.

759
00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:16,100
Other guys can sing.

760
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,020
And I was like, yeah, you're right.

761
00:31:18,020 --> 00:31:20,480
And the Lord said, no, you're wrong.

762
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,220
You still have a voice.

763
00:31:22,220 --> 00:31:23,220
And you know what?

764
00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:24,700
It doesn't matter what kind of voice we have.

765
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:27,900
What does the Psalm say?

766
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:29,900
Think about it.

767
00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:30,900
I don't know.

768
00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:31,900
A clanging voice.

769
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:32,900
It doesn't matter.

770
00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,500
No, it says make a joyful noise.

771
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:36,980
Is that what you're saying?

772
00:31:36,980 --> 00:31:39,980
I'm making a joyful noise.

773
00:31:39,980 --> 00:31:47,020
The thing is, the Bible talks about us worshiping with all of our heart and our mind and our

774
00:31:47,020 --> 00:31:50,540
soul and our giving everything to Him.

775
00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:56,180
Why not get your guitar back out and not just play lead guitar?

776
00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:57,180
I know.

777
00:31:57,180 --> 00:31:58,940
That'll always be my first love.

778
00:31:58,940 --> 00:31:59,940
But I did.

779
00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:03,060
I pulled my guitar out, it's hanging on the wall now.

780
00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:05,060
And it's on the wall of fame.

781
00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:07,340
So I'm giving you time to practice.

782
00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:11,700
No, I strummed it a little bit this morning and last night and it felt really good.

783
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:14,180
Yeah, I'm going to lean back into it.

784
00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:16,660
I'm also looking at pictures, by the way.

785
00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:17,660
While we're doing this podcast.

786
00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:18,660
Yeah, I'm scanning pictures.

787
00:32:18,660 --> 00:32:20,260
Because I can't see because you've got the computer.

788
00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:21,260
Right, sorry.

789
00:32:21,260 --> 00:32:23,060
But I'm scanning pictures that I took.

790
00:32:23,060 --> 00:32:25,340
Oh, wait, I can see if I look.

791
00:32:25,340 --> 00:32:28,060
So this is one of Mercy Me.

792
00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:31,020
It's the two guitar players, Michael's one of them.

793
00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:36,020
And then of course, the lead singer Bart Millard.

794
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:38,940
And up on the platform with Steven Curtis Chapman.

795
00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:40,420
I know that was special.

796
00:32:40,420 --> 00:32:41,420
Robbie the other guitar player.

797
00:32:41,420 --> 00:32:44,260
And you've gotten to be very good friends with Michael.

798
00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:45,620
We got to spend time with Michael.

799
00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:50,900
Michael Schuizer is just, man, if he hears this podcast, he listens to our podcast.

800
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:52,580
Michael, you're such a joy.

801
00:32:52,580 --> 00:32:55,380
I love your passionate spirit.

802
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:59,000
When you're on the stage, I mean, it's not play acting, bro.

803
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,000
It's just you being you.

804
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,000
It's just fun.

805
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000
You're fun.

806
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,340
And you've got energy.

807
00:33:03,340 --> 00:33:06,700
So he and I were texting each other during the award show.

808
00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:08,300
And they got group of the year.

809
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:09,300
Yes, which was.

810
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,300
Which was so they were totally shocked.

811
00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:15,380
Because they think, oh, we've been doing this for almost 30 years.

812
00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:17,020
We're texting each other.

813
00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:19,700
And I'm like, dude, you just got group of the year.

814
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:20,700
Congratulations.

815
00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:21,940
And it's so cool.

816
00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:27,260
But I'm watching I'm looking at this picture I took of them with acoustic guitars up on

817
00:33:27,260 --> 00:33:34,140
the platform with the king of Christian music, the undisputed king, Steve Curtis Chapman,

818
00:33:34,140 --> 00:33:36,500
who massive impact on my life.

819
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:39,260
He has so much humility.

820
00:33:39,260 --> 00:33:43,220
He's had 50, 50, not five.

821
00:33:43,220 --> 00:33:48,500
He's had 50 number one hits on the Christian music charts.

822
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:49,500
Unbelievable.

823
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,140
Number one is ever will ever probably touch that now.

824
00:33:53,140 --> 00:33:54,140
And he's still doing it.

825
00:33:54,140 --> 00:33:55,860
He had a number one song this year.

826
00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:56,860
It's very good song.

827
00:33:56,860 --> 00:34:02,380
Oh, so I just so appreciate Stephen, but also just Bart and Robbie and and Michael.

828
00:34:02,380 --> 00:34:05,020
Man, these guys are just they're just down to earth.

829
00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:06,340
They're real guys.

830
00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:08,900
They don't have that celebrity thing on them at all.

831
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:13,780
We were Michael was looking for us after the show because it's mayhem.

832
00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:16,860
I mean, four thousand people getting out of the four hundred.

833
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:17,860
Yeah.

834
00:34:17,860 --> 00:34:18,860
Getting out of the grand old Opry.

835
00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:22,020
We had to catch buses back to our hotel shuttles.

836
00:34:22,020 --> 00:34:23,020
So it was kind of mayhem.

837
00:34:23,020 --> 00:34:24,820
And he wrote me, goes, where are you?

838
00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:27,420
I'm like, dude, we're already in the parking lot about to get on the bus.

839
00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:30,600
He wanted us to meet his I wanted you to meet Abby, my wife.

840
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,320
And so we didn't get to meet Abby this time, but we will another time.

841
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:35,940
But we do our second home.

842
00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:36,940
We'll be back.

843
00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:40,980
We did get to catch up with Michael at the at the hotel where we're at.

844
00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:46,220
We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland Gaylord, which is a cool place.

845
00:34:46,220 --> 00:34:48,300
It's kind of like Disney in a bubble.

846
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:49,300
I had no idea.

847
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:50,300
It was cool.

848
00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:51,300
It was fun.

849
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:52,700
It has its own splash park.

850
00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:53,700
Oh, my gosh.

851
00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:54,700
Oh, my gosh.

852
00:34:54,700 --> 00:34:55,700
So we stayed there.

853
00:34:55,700 --> 00:34:59,340
But when they did this acoustic set and played, then we got to hang out.

854
00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:01,580
Michael and us just after the show.

855
00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:04,100
So we just it's just fun to talk to.

856
00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:05,100
Just a good guy.

857
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,100
And so down to earth.

858
00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:08,100
I love his heart.

859
00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,580
He has I got to meet his son.

860
00:35:10,580 --> 00:35:14,420
Remember, he was the one taking us around when we went to the Mercy Me concert.

861
00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:17,060
And he is so sharp.

862
00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:22,060
What I thought was interesting is when Michael said he wanted his dad to take him to an auto

863
00:35:22,060 --> 00:35:24,860
show because he is into cars big time.

864
00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:25,860
And we were like, well, that's cool.

865
00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:26,860
And he goes, but it's in Poland.

866
00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:27,860
Poland.

867
00:35:27,860 --> 00:35:28,860
Poland.

868
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:29,860
What?

869
00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:30,860
But his wife said Detroit.

870
00:35:30,860 --> 00:35:31,860
Yes, L.A. Yes.

871
00:35:31,860 --> 00:35:33,980
You need to create a memory.

872
00:35:33,980 --> 00:35:34,980
So go to Poland.

873
00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:35,980
Take him to Poland.

874
00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:36,980
So he's going what?

875
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:37,980
Next week?

876
00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:38,980
I think it's a couple of weeks.

877
00:35:38,980 --> 00:35:39,980
Yeah.

878
00:35:39,980 --> 00:35:40,980
Yeah.

879
00:35:40,980 --> 00:35:44,380
But anyway, congratulations to Mercy Me and the guys, the boys.

880
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:45,380
I call them.

881
00:35:45,380 --> 00:35:46,860
I just love those guys and so.

882
00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:47,980
I'm proud of them.

883
00:35:47,980 --> 00:35:48,980
I am too.

884
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:49,980
I feel like a dad.

885
00:35:49,980 --> 00:35:56,180
I love their music more now that I've gotten to know Michael and we got to meet all of

886
00:35:56,180 --> 00:36:00,100
the group and you're in this text chat with everybody.

887
00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:03,220
I appreciate them even more now than I did.

888
00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:04,220
That's the value of.

889
00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:08,140
It's the value of relationship and it's the value of context.

890
00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:13,660
When you know where songs are birthed from, it makes you appreciate the song even more.

891
00:36:13,660 --> 00:36:18,260
I know those of you listening know that just in your own experience.

892
00:36:18,260 --> 00:36:20,060
So yeah, fantastic time there.

893
00:36:20,060 --> 00:36:21,060
I'm looking.

894
00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:23,820
Also, here's another bonus on the Nashville trip.

895
00:36:23,820 --> 00:36:26,900
All of that was freaking amazing.

896
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:32,580
Then the next level of bonus is that we got to spend time with our kids, with Mark and

897
00:36:32,580 --> 00:36:33,580
Alicia.

898
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:35,700
Alicia is our oldest daughter.

899
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:37,340
She lives out there and market.

900
00:36:37,340 --> 00:36:38,340
They've been married.

901
00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:39,340
Which keeps us connected.

902
00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:40,460
How long have they been married?

903
00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:41,460
Two years.

904
00:36:41,460 --> 00:36:42,540
This two years they've been married.

905
00:36:42,540 --> 00:36:43,820
You're doing great.

906
00:36:43,820 --> 00:36:47,420
Got to see your grandson Carter for two seconds.

907
00:36:47,420 --> 00:36:49,660
He's a 19 now.

908
00:36:49,660 --> 00:36:50,660
Is he 18?

909
00:36:50,660 --> 00:36:51,660
19?

910
00:36:51,660 --> 00:36:53,020
He will be 19 in June.

911
00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:55,980
So he's all of 19, which means hi, bye.

912
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:56,980
How you doing?

913
00:36:56,980 --> 00:36:57,980
Great.

914
00:36:57,980 --> 00:36:58,980
See you.

915
00:36:58,980 --> 00:36:59,980
We're the old guys.

916
00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:00,980
We're the old people.

917
00:37:00,980 --> 00:37:01,980
So yeah, whatever.

918
00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:02,980
I get that.

919
00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:03,980
I was exactly the same way.

920
00:37:03,980 --> 00:37:04,980
They kept apologizing for Carter not wanting to hang out with us.

921
00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:07,380
I'm like, Oh, I was so Carter.

922
00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:08,460
I was worse than that.

923
00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:09,460
No worries.

924
00:37:09,460 --> 00:37:11,160
We'll catch up with him in five years.

925
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,620
So when life starts happening, when real life hits, we'll catch up with him.

926
00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:18,260
But we had such a sweet time with Mark and Alicia.

927
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:21,220
We are so blessed by our kids.

928
00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:25,220
And I had to go with Alicia to get her eyes examined.

929
00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:27,140
Oh my gosh.

930
00:37:27,140 --> 00:37:29,140
This is when you know you're getting older.

931
00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:32,700
This is when I know when the doctor says it's time for bifocals.

932
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:33,700
For our daughter.

933
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:34,700
What?

934
00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:36,580
My daughter is going to have bifocal.

935
00:37:36,580 --> 00:37:37,580
She's 45.

936
00:37:37,580 --> 00:37:39,860
And I was 45 when I had mine.

937
00:37:39,860 --> 00:37:40,860
Man.

938
00:37:40,860 --> 00:37:41,860
I know.

939
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:43,580
Time flies when you're having fun.

940
00:37:43,580 --> 00:37:44,580
Yeah.

941
00:37:44,580 --> 00:37:46,500
So I'm, we're definitely old now.

942
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:47,500
She's rocking the bifocals.

943
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:48,500
Yeah.

944
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:49,500
But they look good on her.

945
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,500
So we made our big trip to Costco in Nashville.

946
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:53,180
Yeah, it was wild.

947
00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:54,660
So yeah, here we are.

948
00:37:54,660 --> 00:37:55,900
It's funny.

949
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:56,900
We're getting old.

950
00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:58,660
Oh, you know what though?

951
00:37:58,660 --> 00:37:59,820
Like a fine wine though.

952
00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:05,300
I'm telling you, I, the only thing I don't like about getting old is how I feel when

953
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,500
I get out of bed in the morning and every bone in my body cracks and pops from racing

954
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,100
motocross and playing football.

955
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:12,820
See, I didn't do any of that.

956
00:38:12,820 --> 00:38:15,300
So I don't have all that that you have.

957
00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:16,900
I enjoy this.

958
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,980
The, I think perspective gets gained as you, as you get older perspective happens and it

959
00:38:22,980 --> 00:38:27,180
can be such, it makes life joyful at this season.

960
00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:29,020
So anyway, who are you texting?

961
00:38:29,020 --> 00:38:30,180
No, somebody's texting me.

962
00:38:30,180 --> 00:38:31,180
I don't know who it is.

963
00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:32,180
Phone's blowing up.

964
00:38:32,180 --> 00:38:33,180
I know.

965
00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:34,180
I'm just making sure.

966
00:38:34,180 --> 00:38:35,180
Hey, we're doing a show here.

967
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,180
Well, our daughter is on the road back from Oklahoma.

968
00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:37,180
That's true.

969
00:38:37,180 --> 00:38:38,180
I have to check our youngest.

970
00:38:38,180 --> 00:38:39,180
Yeah.

971
00:38:39,180 --> 00:38:40,180
I have to keep an eye on her.

972
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:41,180
Oh, I see.

973
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:42,180
Oh, they're going to stop at Buc-ee's.

974
00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:43,180
Yay for that.

975
00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:45,860
Oh, we need to tell them to get us some.

976
00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:46,860
Oh my gosh.

977
00:38:46,860 --> 00:38:47,860
Buc-ee's.

978
00:38:47,860 --> 00:38:49,260
That is such a Texas thing.

979
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:50,260
I guess it's Texas.

980
00:38:50,260 --> 00:38:51,260
I think it's everywhere.

981
00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:52,260
So what's next up?

982
00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:53,260
I think we've got so much.

983
00:38:53,260 --> 00:38:55,260
We're all over the map today.

984
00:38:55,260 --> 00:38:59,860
Oh, I mean, for one connecting with Christie and her friend Cheryl, we already talked about

985
00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:00,860
that.

986
00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:01,860
Such a cool thing.

987
00:39:01,860 --> 00:39:05,180
Worship got all that, man.

988
00:39:05,180 --> 00:39:07,740
Tina and Adam signed up to go to Caleb next year.

989
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:09,020
This is going to be so cool.

990
00:39:09,020 --> 00:39:12,460
But they don't know, and I don't know if we've talked to them about it, but we're going to

991
00:39:12,460 --> 00:39:13,460
hear.

992
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:14,460
They're going to hear this first.

993
00:39:14,460 --> 00:39:15,460
They'll hear this when they listen to the show.

994
00:39:15,460 --> 00:39:18,220
We're having dinner with them tonight, but I want them to hear this first.

995
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:24,220
But they may have an opportunity for Adam to do the award for podcast.

996
00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:30,940
So Michael asked, he said, hey, do you think that Adam would be interested if, do you think,

997
00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:36,820
do you think Adam might be interested in actually presenting at the Caleb Awards the award for

998
00:39:36,820 --> 00:39:40,260
podcasting because that's another one of the categories.

999
00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:41,860
I'm thinking that might work.

1000
00:39:41,860 --> 00:39:43,980
He's brought it up, but we're going to bring it up to him.

1001
00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:45,260
He's hearing it now for the first time.

1002
00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:49,300
Michael's out in the woods at Montana doing some dude thing.

1003
00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:51,140
So he's offline for now.

1004
00:39:51,140 --> 00:39:52,900
So I don't even think they've chatted about that.

1005
00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:54,940
So yeah, we'll bring it up tonight.

1006
00:39:54,940 --> 00:39:58,780
And that'd be really cool having Adam, the pod father who invented podcasting.

1007
00:39:58,780 --> 00:40:01,580
They've already got their, they've already signed up for Caleb.

1008
00:40:01,580 --> 00:40:04,120
So we're all going together next year.

1009
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,180
So we're going to have a blast.

1010
00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:08,140
I can't wait doing that.

1011
00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:13,140
And also just seeing Adam get introduced to a lot of these people that have no idea that

1012
00:40:13,140 --> 00:40:15,100
he's the one who started podcasting.

1013
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:16,100
Exactly.

1014
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:17,380
The very fact that any of us do this.

1015
00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:22,860
But they'll all, if, believe me, because they're all in the music industry, they're going to

1016
00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:23,860
remember Adam.

1017
00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:26,660
Well, the older ones, not the young ones.

1018
00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:30,180
They will remember him from MTV in the eighties and nineties.

1019
00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:35,900
Not, um, and, uh, Oh, Ann Wilson, not Rachel Lamp.

1020
00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:36,900
They're not going to know.

1021
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:40,100
No, Rachel's a little, she's not not remembered that.

1022
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:41,100
I don't know.

1023
00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:42,100
I won't do it.

1024
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,140
She's not in her forties.

1025
00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:46,420
Um, anyway, moving right along.

1026
00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:47,420
I don't want to do that.

1027
00:40:47,420 --> 00:40:49,580
Oh, he'll totally know who he is.

1028
00:40:49,580 --> 00:40:50,580
So yeah.

1029
00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:54,580
Um, and then another neat opportunity, I got to bring this up just to boost my brother.

1030
00:40:54,580 --> 00:41:02,780
Um, Adam, he got invited to do a major, major, um, uh, it's like MC, right?

1031
00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:06,700
I mean, I thought it was just presenting an award for the aspire.

1032
00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:08,180
Is that what you're talking about?

1033
00:41:08,180 --> 00:41:09,180
Yeah.

1034
00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:10,180
I think it's just presented.

1035
00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:11,180
No, no, no keynote speaker.

1036
00:41:11,180 --> 00:41:12,180
Oh, okay.

1037
00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:13,180
Keynote speaker.

1038
00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:14,940
We're going to talk about it tonight.

1039
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:15,940
So we'll know more.

1040
00:41:15,940 --> 00:41:19,020
We'll connect with them tonight, but he's been invited to be a keynote speaker at a

1041
00:41:19,020 --> 00:41:20,020
Christian.

1042
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:27,220
It's like, it's the largest Christian podcasting conference gathering, uh, which we get to

1043
00:41:27,220 --> 00:41:28,220
attend.

1044
00:41:28,220 --> 00:41:29,220
We're going to go with them.

1045
00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:30,320
It'll be a great time.

1046
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:35,980
But he was invited and asked to be the keynote speaker, which is so cool because he just

1047
00:41:35,980 --> 00:41:38,540
became a Christian a year plus ago.

1048
00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:41,420
So now he gets to present an award.

1049
00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:42,820
I mean, that's just amazing.

1050
00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:44,620
I love what God's doing in Adam.

1051
00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:46,500
Yeah, it is fun.

1052
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:47,500
It's a fun ride.

1053
00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:51,220
I said, y'all can't do anything Christian without Jimmy and I.

1054
00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:52,220
Yeah.

1055
00:41:52,220 --> 00:41:53,220
You need to talk to us.

1056
00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:54,220
That's right.

1057
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:55,220
Yeah.

1058
00:41:55,220 --> 00:41:56,220
We want to help.

1059
00:41:56,220 --> 00:41:57,220
We also want to weed out.

1060
00:41:57,220 --> 00:41:59,860
We need to be in that environment.

1061
00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:00,860
Oh, we're going.

1062
00:42:00,860 --> 00:42:01,860
It's going to be awesome.

1063
00:42:01,860 --> 00:42:03,380
I'm, I'm super excited.

1064
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:04,860
Maybe we'll get an award someday.

1065
00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:06,100
Who knows?

1066
00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:08,220
So a couple of other things is you didn't say anything.

1067
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:09,220
No, no, no.

1068
00:42:09,220 --> 00:42:10,500
Did you say us getting an award?

1069
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:11,500
Oh my gosh.

1070
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:13,620
First of all, we love fountain by the way.

1071
00:42:13,620 --> 00:42:15,380
I'm always going to promote fountain.

1072
00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:16,380
Fountain is amazing.

1073
00:42:16,380 --> 00:42:17,380
They've been promoting us.

1074
00:42:17,380 --> 00:42:18,380
They have been.

1075
00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:19,380
They've been wonderful.

1076
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:20,380
These guys are great.

1077
00:42:20,380 --> 00:42:21,380
It's been amazing.

1078
00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:23,540
So fountain is a great podcast platform.

1079
00:42:23,540 --> 00:42:24,860
So I don't know what you listen to.

1080
00:42:24,860 --> 00:42:28,220
You may be on Apple, you may be on Spotify, Amazon, whatever.

1081
00:42:28,220 --> 00:42:32,980
There's a billion of them out there now platforms, but I want to recommend fountain.

1082
00:42:32,980 --> 00:42:37,420
You should check it out because what fountain does is you actually earn Satoshi's.

1083
00:42:37,420 --> 00:42:39,820
You earn Bitcoin just by listening.

1084
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:40,820
Exactly.

1085
00:42:40,820 --> 00:42:41,820
Although mine's not been doing it lately.

1086
00:42:41,820 --> 00:42:42,820
I need to reach out.

1087
00:42:42,820 --> 00:42:43,820
Something's wrong.

1088
00:42:43,820 --> 00:42:44,820
So I got a glitch.

1089
00:42:44,820 --> 00:42:45,820
So anyway, no big deal.

1090
00:42:45,820 --> 00:42:49,100
They're working on all that, but it's a, it's a great platform.

1091
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:51,800
Can listen to podcast, your favorite podcasts on there.

1092
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:57,760
You earn Satoshi's and then you can bless the podcast you're listening to.

1093
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,420
It's called value for value.

1094
00:42:59,420 --> 00:43:01,300
Again, another Adam Curry thing.

1095
00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:06,180
If this show is bringing value to you, then bring value to us.

1096
00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:07,380
I mean, because that's what this is about.

1097
00:43:07,380 --> 00:43:08,380
Bless it forward.

1098
00:43:08,380 --> 00:43:09,380
Bless it forward.

1099
00:43:09,380 --> 00:43:10,380
Now that's a good way to put it.

1100
00:43:10,380 --> 00:43:11,380
And that's what I've been doing.

1101
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:12,380
I've been, I've been actually loading.

1102
00:43:12,380 --> 00:43:14,380
When people give to us, we give it to other people.

1103
00:43:14,380 --> 00:43:15,380
Yeah.

1104
00:43:15,380 --> 00:43:19,300
I've been loading my Bitcoin wallet and then blessing forward when I'm listening to a podcast

1105
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:22,960
and if they're on a platform that supports it, I'm going to, I'm going to encourage them

1106
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,620
by saying, thank you.

1107
00:43:24,620 --> 00:43:25,620
Great point.

1108
00:43:25,620 --> 00:43:26,620
That added value to my life.

1109
00:43:26,620 --> 00:43:27,620
I'm going to add value to yours.

1110
00:43:27,620 --> 00:43:28,620
So it's value for value.

1111
00:43:28,620 --> 00:43:30,180
That's the whole point of podcasts.

1112
00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:32,700
We're wanting to bring value to your life.

1113
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:33,700
Exactly.

1114
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:35,220
It's not just about getting to know us.

1115
00:43:35,220 --> 00:43:37,220
It's about what we can do to help you.

1116
00:43:37,220 --> 00:43:38,220
That's right.

1117
00:43:38,220 --> 00:43:39,220
To encourage you.

1118
00:43:39,220 --> 00:43:40,220
Lift you.

1119
00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:41,220
To live up in a down world.

1120
00:43:41,220 --> 00:43:42,220
Exactly.

1121
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:43,220
This is all about.

1122
00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:46,660
So going down our list, we have a list Adam, that's for you.

1123
00:43:46,660 --> 00:43:48,900
Oh, what about the ceiling fan thing?

1124
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:51,380
I noticed there's a note on here about a ceiling fan.

1125
00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:52,380
Okay.

1126
00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:54,060
Two months ago, you told me.

1127
00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:55,060
Wow.

1128
00:43:55,060 --> 00:43:56,060
You really emphasize two months.

1129
00:43:56,060 --> 00:43:58,060
It's not so much how you peek the meter when you do that.

1130
00:43:58,060 --> 00:43:59,060
I actually looked it up.

1131
00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:00,420
Sorry for the distortion.

1132
00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:05,220
And it was two months ago, you said, will you please order us a new ceiling fan for

1133
00:44:05,220 --> 00:44:06,220
our porch?

1134
00:44:06,220 --> 00:44:11,420
Because ours is broke because the wind, we had a horrible storm.

1135
00:44:11,420 --> 00:44:13,980
It's a back porch outdoor ceiling fan.

1136
00:44:13,980 --> 00:44:17,500
And you said, I need it to be here this weekend so I could put it up.

1137
00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:21,900
You put it up finally, Saturday, two months later.

1138
00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:23,620
And the appropriate response is thank you.

1139
00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:25,420
Oh, well I did say thank you.

1140
00:44:25,420 --> 00:44:29,940
And I stayed out there and got sunburn for four hours watching you put it up.

1141
00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:30,940
Oh my gosh.

1142
00:44:30,940 --> 00:44:31,940
But I enjoy the sun.

1143
00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:32,940
Blame me for the sunburn.

1144
00:44:32,940 --> 00:44:33,940
I know.

1145
00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:35,860
But I was telling Tina, she goes, oh, I like that ceiling fan.

1146
00:44:35,860 --> 00:44:38,380
I said, yeah, it took two months.

1147
00:44:38,380 --> 00:44:39,380
Only two months.

1148
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:41,660
But you finally got it up and it looks good.

1149
00:44:41,660 --> 00:44:42,940
And you know what?

1150
00:44:42,940 --> 00:44:48,100
Our garage was not cleaned out fully because we had that ceiling fan in the garage.

1151
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:53,780
It has been bothering me because ever since we purged and cleaned everything out, our

1152
00:44:53,780 --> 00:44:56,460
garage has been perfect until two months ago.

1153
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:57,460
So let's talk about today.

1154
00:44:57,460 --> 00:44:58,460
Okay.

1155
00:44:58,460 --> 00:44:59,460
What's today?

1156
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:00,460
Walk out in the garage.

1157
00:45:00,460 --> 00:45:01,460
Everything is gone.

1158
00:45:01,460 --> 00:45:02,460
Absolutely spotless.

1159
00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:03,460
I'm so glad.

1160
00:45:03,460 --> 00:45:04,460
Everything's gone.

1161
00:45:04,460 --> 00:45:05,460
Finally.

1162
00:45:05,460 --> 00:45:06,460
Okay.

1163
00:45:06,460 --> 00:45:07,460
Finally, you got to it.

1164
00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:08,460
Because you're so busy.

1165
00:45:08,460 --> 00:45:09,460
I know.

1166
00:45:09,460 --> 00:45:10,460
You're so.

1167
00:45:10,460 --> 00:45:11,460
Moving right along.

1168
00:45:11,460 --> 00:45:12,460
Yes.

1169
00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:13,460
All right.

1170
00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:14,460
So what was the next thing?

1171
00:45:14,460 --> 00:45:15,460
Okay.

1172
00:45:15,460 --> 00:45:17,260
Click, check, ceiling fan, me.

1173
00:45:17,260 --> 00:45:18,260
Okay.

1174
00:45:18,260 --> 00:45:19,260
Got it.

1175
00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:21,180
I do want to share this.

1176
00:45:21,180 --> 00:45:26,100
This is something that's been powerful and it's really the power of community.

1177
00:45:26,100 --> 00:45:31,520
It's bouncing off of experience at the K-Love Awards, but also bouncing off of yesterday.

1178
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,340
So this is Monday when we're recording.

1179
00:45:33,340 --> 00:45:35,060
This is our Sabbath.

1180
00:45:35,060 --> 00:45:37,060
We take this day to really chill.

1181
00:45:37,060 --> 00:45:39,940
I don't see this as work is what we're doing right now.

1182
00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:42,300
We're just sharing our life with you.

1183
00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:50,500
But yesterday, I almost lost it several times in the pulpit crying, looking out over our

1184
00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:51,980
church family.

1185
00:45:51,980 --> 00:45:53,940
So we missed a week at church.

1186
00:45:53,940 --> 00:45:59,340
I had Bill Loveless step up to the plate, did a great job, fabulous job for me.

1187
00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:02,020
But I have to be honest, it's so weird.

1188
00:46:02,020 --> 00:46:03,660
It's hard for you to be gone.

1189
00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:05,940
It's weird to miss a Sunday at our church.

1190
00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:08,700
Not because I'm wanting to be in control or be the man.

1191
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,060
It's just, I love our church.

1192
00:46:10,060 --> 00:46:11,060
You love what you do.

1193
00:46:11,060 --> 00:46:13,060
I love our church family.

1194
00:46:13,060 --> 00:46:14,060
They're our family.

1195
00:46:14,060 --> 00:46:15,460
It felt like we were gone for a month.

1196
00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:16,460
It did.

1197
00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:17,460
It was bizarre.

1198
00:46:17,460 --> 00:46:18,540
I didn't like it.

1199
00:46:18,540 --> 00:46:19,540
It's a weird feeling.

1200
00:46:19,540 --> 00:46:21,740
So yesterday, walking back in the door, I'm giddy.

1201
00:46:21,740 --> 00:46:22,740
I'm hugging everybody.

1202
00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:24,820
They're like, man, Jimmy's excited.

1203
00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:25,980
What's going on?

1204
00:46:25,980 --> 00:46:28,420
It's because I love them and I miss them.

1205
00:46:28,420 --> 00:46:30,180
I was visiting with JB Rieger.

1206
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:31,180
Oh, I love them.

1207
00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:32,180
I love JB.

1208
00:46:32,180 --> 00:46:33,180
And Martha, they're precious.

1209
00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:34,180
And Debbie.

1210
00:46:34,180 --> 00:46:35,180
Debbie.

1211
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:36,180
Debbie Rieger.

1212
00:46:36,180 --> 00:46:37,180
They're the most precious people.

1213
00:46:37,180 --> 00:46:38,180
They really are.

1214
00:46:38,180 --> 00:46:40,380
Always come in with a huge smile.

1215
00:46:40,380 --> 00:46:42,260
Full of life and a hug.

1216
00:46:42,260 --> 00:46:43,260
Always.

1217
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:44,660
I was like, I missed you guys.

1218
00:46:44,660 --> 00:46:46,300
And he said, yeah, we've been out too.

1219
00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:48,700
They've been traveling, trying to see family.

1220
00:46:48,700 --> 00:46:49,980
It's that time of year, right?

1221
00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:51,020
Everybody kind of hits the road.

1222
00:46:51,020 --> 00:46:52,380
So they've been out.

1223
00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:56,380
And we were just talking about that before the first service about how much we love our

1224
00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:57,820
family.

1225
00:46:57,820 --> 00:46:59,180
Our church family is family.

1226
00:46:59,180 --> 00:47:00,180
It is.

1227
00:47:00,180 --> 00:47:01,460
And it's not just spiritual family.

1228
00:47:01,460 --> 00:47:03,780
I was late coming into church because I was sitting down.

1229
00:47:03,780 --> 00:47:04,780
I wondered where you were.

1230
00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:05,780
I played lead guitar yesterday.

1231
00:47:05,780 --> 00:47:06,780
I was in the foyer sitting down in the couch talking.

1232
00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:10,460
I'm up there jamming going, this is when you should be looking at me and smiling.

1233
00:47:10,460 --> 00:47:12,580
That was an awesome lick you just played.

1234
00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:15,700
I was too busy fellowshiping with people.

1235
00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:16,700
Where's my wife?

1236
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:17,700
Where's my support?

1237
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:18,700
It was funny.

1238
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:20,780
So anyway, where's my one fan?

1239
00:47:20,780 --> 00:47:21,780
Your one fan.

1240
00:47:21,780 --> 00:47:25,740
So I played on the worship team yesterday.

1241
00:47:25,740 --> 00:47:26,980
It's the best seat in the house.

1242
00:47:26,980 --> 00:47:27,980
I always say this.

1243
00:47:27,980 --> 00:47:32,260
It's the best seat in the house because I get to watch people worship God.

1244
00:47:32,260 --> 00:47:38,060
But it's hard too because you watch people that just stand there with their hands folded.

1245
00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:40,540
I just totally look past that.

1246
00:47:40,540 --> 00:47:43,420
Because too, we don't know what they're going through.

1247
00:47:43,420 --> 00:47:44,420
Exactly.

1248
00:47:44,420 --> 00:47:47,300
There are people who feel like they're unworthy to worship.

1249
00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:48,300
That's true.

1250
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:51,500
Even though they're there, even though they might like the song, even though it might

1251
00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:57,940
actually possibly be in their range for a dude, they're hurting and they're feeling

1252
00:47:57,940 --> 00:47:58,940
unworthy.

1253
00:47:58,940 --> 00:47:59,940
That would be hard for me.

1254
00:47:59,940 --> 00:48:05,620
I have so much empathy in my character that it would be hard for me to watch.

1255
00:48:05,620 --> 00:48:10,260
I would want to get down and go down and go, just let it go.

1256
00:48:10,260 --> 00:48:11,900
Let me put it this way.

1257
00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:13,760
It used to bother me years ago.

1258
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,780
Now I look out and I have compassion.

1259
00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:17,460
That's true.

1260
00:48:17,460 --> 00:48:21,500
There are reasons why someone doesn't feel like they're worthy to worship and it breaks

1261
00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:22,500
my heart for them.

1262
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:23,500
That's true.

1263
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:24,500
The shame.

1264
00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:26,380
Because they're already worthy in God's eyes.

1265
00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:27,380
He's not looking at their past.

1266
00:48:27,380 --> 00:48:29,660
You can say it every week, but it's still...

1267
00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:31,660
It's got to be a revelation to them at some point.

1268
00:48:31,660 --> 00:48:32,660
Someday it'll register.

1269
00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:33,660
Right.

1270
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:34,820
That's my prayer for them.

1271
00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:35,820
Exactly.

1272
00:48:35,820 --> 00:48:36,820
Yeah.

1273
00:48:36,820 --> 00:48:41,220
Yesterday was beautiful being back in church and preaching on community, which I did, the

1274
00:48:41,220 --> 00:48:47,740
power of community, connections, protection, and it was joyful for me to be with the family

1275
00:48:47,740 --> 00:48:48,740
of God.

1276
00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:50,000
I'm so thankful.

1277
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,340
We pastor a church called Bridge Church, if you're new to the podcast, and it is our joy

1278
00:48:55,340 --> 00:48:57,180
to do so.

1279
00:48:57,180 --> 00:49:02,540
It's like anything you do in life, you're going to take hits, stuff happens.

1280
00:49:02,540 --> 00:49:04,360
Not everybody thinks you're amazing.

1281
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:05,700
Some people think you suck.

1282
00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:06,700
Oh, wow.

1283
00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:07,700
They do.

1284
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:08,700
They do.

1285
00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:09,700
Then they leave the church and whatever.

1286
00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:10,700
Or they stay.

1287
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:11,700
They stay and they're mad.

1288
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:13,940
They're like, hey, you might want to go.

1289
00:49:13,940 --> 00:49:14,940
Take off.

1290
00:49:14,940 --> 00:49:15,940
See you.

1291
00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:16,940
But that's just life.

1292
00:49:16,940 --> 00:49:18,940
That's in any job, in any profession.

1293
00:49:18,940 --> 00:49:19,940
So it's not just church.

1294
00:49:19,940 --> 00:49:22,060
Anybody that's in leadership is going to go through that.

1295
00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:26,540
It's because we bring our brokenness, our collective brokenness together, and sometimes

1296
00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:29,180
we operate out of that instead of the Spirit.

1297
00:49:29,180 --> 00:49:30,180
Right.

1298
00:49:30,180 --> 00:49:31,940
So anyway, yesterday was great.

1299
00:49:31,940 --> 00:49:32,940
I loved being back with our church family.

1300
00:49:32,940 --> 00:49:34,940
You did a one-off message instead of sticking.

1301
00:49:34,940 --> 00:49:35,940
I did.

1302
00:49:35,940 --> 00:49:36,940
Called an audible.

1303
00:49:36,940 --> 00:49:38,500
Although it was still no perfect people allowed.

1304
00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:39,500
It was.

1305
00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:40,500
It always will be.

1306
00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:41,500
It was.

1307
00:49:41,500 --> 00:49:42,500
It was.

1308
00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:46,820
An Old Testament person, not character, person.

1309
00:49:46,820 --> 00:49:49,260
You were actually just talking about all of us in general.

1310
00:49:49,260 --> 00:49:50,260
It was really good.

1311
00:49:50,260 --> 00:49:53,180
Well, I was talking about out of the book of Acts, it says that right after Peter preached

1312
00:49:53,180 --> 00:49:55,900
the first gospel message that was ever preached.

1313
00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:57,340
At the church.

1314
00:49:57,340 --> 00:50:01,860
After the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter two, there was a result from that.

1315
00:50:01,860 --> 00:50:07,220
The result is that they gave themselves to the apostles' teaching, to fellowship, to

1316
00:50:07,220 --> 00:50:08,900
breaking of bread together.

1317
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:09,900
And prayer.

1318
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:11,500
And so these four devotions.

1319
00:50:11,500 --> 00:50:13,500
Which is what we do in church.

1320
00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:14,500
They devoted themselves.

1321
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:15,500
They gave themselves to it.

1322
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:18,620
And I just, it was kind of just a reminder to the body.

1323
00:50:18,620 --> 00:50:22,460
We need to give ourselves to these four devotions.

1324
00:50:22,460 --> 00:50:24,340
These are the things we devote ourselves to.

1325
00:50:24,340 --> 00:50:25,540
And so it was that.

1326
00:50:25,540 --> 00:50:29,620
And it was also a celebration for me of, of we're back.

1327
00:50:29,620 --> 00:50:34,940
We had a great time, but I also want to celebrate what we have here as a church family.

1328
00:50:34,940 --> 00:50:39,740
And if you would ever want to listen to our watch, you can, we video our services.

1329
00:50:39,740 --> 00:50:40,740
You can watch our worship.

1330
00:50:40,740 --> 00:50:43,460
You can watch our, the messages.

1331
00:50:43,460 --> 00:50:47,340
And so you can find that at bridgefbg.com.

1332
00:50:47,340 --> 00:50:53,740
And you go right down the front page and scroll down and you'll find all of that.

1333
00:50:53,740 --> 00:50:54,740
So bridgefbg.com.

1334
00:50:54,740 --> 00:50:58,300
I was proud of you because you said you called an audible and you explained what an audible

1335
00:50:58,300 --> 00:50:59,300
is.

1336
00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:01,220
Which people who don't know football don't understand that.

1337
00:51:01,220 --> 00:51:03,980
But people who know football understand.

1338
00:51:03,980 --> 00:51:08,480
But I appreciate that because what you were in essence saying is I was being led by the

1339
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,140
Holy Spirit to go a different direction today.

1340
00:51:12,140 --> 00:51:13,700
I can't tell you what I'll do next week.

1341
00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:14,700
I was very confident that it was the Holy Spirit.

1342
00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:20,980
God may change everything because you're willing to let go of something to go with what God

1343
00:51:20,980 --> 00:51:22,100
wants you to do.

1344
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:28,900
And I think that's really important because too many pastors and we have in the past have

1345
00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:33,380
felt like we have to stay with the course.

1346
00:51:33,380 --> 00:51:34,380
Because you know, that's what we...

1347
00:51:34,380 --> 00:51:36,980
Plan, run the play, so to speak.

1348
00:51:36,980 --> 00:51:39,340
Things happen.

1349
00:51:39,340 --> 00:51:41,100
Think about what happened with COVID.

1350
00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:42,740
You had to make a total shift.

1351
00:51:42,740 --> 00:51:43,740
Everybody did.

1352
00:51:43,740 --> 00:51:49,740
So you have to always every week be willing to hear the Holy Spirit and say, God, what

1353
00:51:49,740 --> 00:51:53,980
do you want me to say to the body from you?

1354
00:51:53,980 --> 00:51:55,020
And then go with that.

1355
00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:59,880
And I love that you let the church know, you know what, I was going this way, but God called

1356
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:00,880
an audible.

1357
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:01,880
I've got to go this way.

1358
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:06,700
It's good for them to know that you're listening to God because they want to know their pastor

1359
00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:10,340
is hearing from God to give them a message.

1360
00:52:10,340 --> 00:52:12,620
Whether they receive it or not is up to them.

1361
00:52:12,620 --> 00:52:14,340
But to me, that's important.

1362
00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:16,220
And I think you did well.

1363
00:52:16,220 --> 00:52:17,220
Thank you.

1364
00:52:17,220 --> 00:52:18,220
I really appreciate that.

1365
00:52:18,220 --> 00:52:19,220
I love you so much.

1366
00:52:19,220 --> 00:52:20,220
I love you more.

1367
00:52:20,220 --> 00:52:21,220
Oh, I love you more.

1368
00:52:21,220 --> 00:52:22,220
Wait, okay.

1369
00:52:22,220 --> 00:52:23,220
Okay, stop.

1370
00:52:23,220 --> 00:52:24,220
All right.

1371
00:52:24,220 --> 00:52:25,220
So we digress.

1372
00:52:25,220 --> 00:52:27,540
We go back to being 30.

1373
00:52:27,540 --> 00:52:28,540
Yes.

1374
00:52:28,540 --> 00:52:30,220
So anyway, we love each other very much.

1375
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:31,220
Yes, we do.

1376
00:52:31,220 --> 00:52:34,060
And I trust you and I appreciate.

1377
00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:35,060
Thank you.

1378
00:52:35,060 --> 00:52:37,140
I know the Holy Spirit in you, guiding you.

1379
00:52:37,140 --> 00:52:39,780
I know the Holy Spirit guides you and leads you.

1380
00:52:39,780 --> 00:52:40,780
Thank you.

1381
00:52:40,780 --> 00:52:44,980
Thank you for trusting me in that because sometimes after being married for 30 years,

1382
00:52:44,980 --> 00:52:47,020
some spouses don't trust each other.

1383
00:52:47,020 --> 00:52:48,900
Well, I trust you 100%.

1384
00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:52,100
I trust the Holy Spirit in you because I pray for you.

1385
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:53,100
I trust you more.

1386
00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:54,940
So I know prayer works.

1387
00:52:54,940 --> 00:52:55,940
It does.

1388
00:52:55,940 --> 00:52:56,940
It does.

1389
00:52:56,940 --> 00:52:57,940
And God's good.

1390
00:52:57,940 --> 00:53:01,980
And sure enough, there was confirmation from the congregation of people saying, gosh, that

1391
00:53:01,980 --> 00:53:02,980
is exactly what it is.

1392
00:53:02,980 --> 00:53:05,900
One of the things that happened in the church I have to share before we end.

1393
00:53:05,900 --> 00:53:06,900
I know we're getting close.

1394
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:11,180
Yeah, time to land the plane.

1395
00:53:11,180 --> 00:53:15,260
Many weeks ago, I had this desire.

1396
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:21,060
I told Jimmy and I told our staff that I felt like the Lord said we need to do a widow and

1397
00:53:21,060 --> 00:53:29,140
widowers dinner because we've had so many funerals in the last few months.

1398
00:53:29,140 --> 00:53:33,500
And I don't ever want anyone to feel alone and forgotten.

1399
00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:35,820
Yeah, or unseen or unheard.

1400
00:53:35,820 --> 00:53:36,820
Yes.

1401
00:53:36,820 --> 00:53:41,660
And so I bring it up to Jimmy and I say, you know, I feel like we're supposed to do this

1402
00:53:41,660 --> 00:53:43,340
dinner for widows and widowers.

1403
00:53:43,340 --> 00:53:44,660
And you didn't say, what?

1404
00:53:44,660 --> 00:53:48,020
You said, if God told you that, then we've got to do it.

1405
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:50,340
We brought it up to our staff.

1406
00:53:50,340 --> 00:53:54,980
One of our staff members wanted to take it a little bit further and add divorces, which

1407
00:53:54,980 --> 00:53:55,980
is great.

1408
00:53:55,980 --> 00:53:56,980
We'll do that.

1409
00:53:56,980 --> 00:53:57,980
We'll do that another time.

1410
00:53:57,980 --> 00:53:58,980
This was not the time.

1411
00:53:58,980 --> 00:54:00,940
I actually said, okay.

1412
00:54:00,940 --> 00:54:04,780
And then I stepped away and said, you know, that's not what the Lord told me.

1413
00:54:04,780 --> 00:54:05,980
Glad you stuck to your guns.

1414
00:54:05,980 --> 00:54:08,220
And I did because we've had that happen before.

1415
00:54:08,220 --> 00:54:11,780
And that does not derail division.

1416
00:54:11,780 --> 00:54:13,180
Not that I don't want to do divorces.

1417
00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:15,300
I want to do a separate one for them.

1418
00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:21,220
I think that's really important because widowers would say they don't get it.

1419
00:54:21,220 --> 00:54:22,220
It's different.

1420
00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:25,700
Divorces would say, no, it feels like that, but they don't get that.

1421
00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:27,700
So I feel very strongly about it.

1422
00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:29,300
So I brought it up to staff.

1423
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:30,300
They agreed.

1424
00:54:30,300 --> 00:54:32,500
We sent out personal invitations.

1425
00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:34,820
We put a slide out.

1426
00:54:34,820 --> 00:54:41,300
We have approximately 20-something people in our church that are widowers and widows,

1427
00:54:41,300 --> 00:54:45,060
which I did not know until we did some investigation.

1428
00:54:45,060 --> 00:54:48,380
We have 15 sign up.

1429
00:54:48,380 --> 00:54:49,380
That is huge to me.

1430
00:54:49,380 --> 00:54:51,140
I hope they all show up.

1431
00:54:51,140 --> 00:54:52,140
We're doing this tomorrow night.

1432
00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:55,260
So tell them what we're doing because I'm super excited about this.

1433
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:56,340
Oh my gosh.

1434
00:54:56,340 --> 00:55:01,220
We have some people that cater our meals that are going to be catering a meal.

1435
00:55:01,220 --> 00:55:03,940
Our staff is going to serve them.

1436
00:55:03,940 --> 00:55:10,340
We're each going to sit at the tables with them and we are going to serve them.

1437
00:55:10,340 --> 00:55:16,340
And then we're going to allow them to share their stories because everybody needs an opportunity

1438
00:55:16,340 --> 00:55:24,980
to share their stories and be able to tell what they feel, what's been going on, how

1439
00:55:24,980 --> 00:55:26,900
this affected their life.

1440
00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:29,540
I am so stoked.

1441
00:55:29,540 --> 00:55:31,820
Yesterday I did not know this.

1442
00:55:31,820 --> 00:55:35,860
I did not know why God put this on my heart other than the fact that we've been doing

1443
00:55:35,860 --> 00:55:38,260
many funerals.

1444
00:55:38,260 --> 00:55:44,420
But I'm telling you, yesterday a woman came up to me who said, I know why you're doing

1445
00:55:44,420 --> 00:55:45,420
this.

1446
00:55:45,420 --> 00:55:46,700
You're doing this for me.

1447
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:48,600
And I said, what?

1448
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,620
I did not know she was one of the widowers.

1449
00:55:52,620 --> 00:55:57,380
I didn't remember her name on there because I don't want to concentrate on who they are

1450
00:55:57,380 --> 00:56:02,540
because it's about what they've been through.

1451
00:56:02,540 --> 00:56:04,340
And I didn't know her story.

1452
00:56:04,340 --> 00:56:09,860
She came up to me after the service and she said, Annette, I am so excited that you're

1453
00:56:09,860 --> 00:56:14,780
doing this and I've never shared this with anyone, not even my closest relatives who

1454
00:56:14,780 --> 00:56:17,220
she lives next door to.

1455
00:56:17,220 --> 00:56:22,500
And she said, I have never told anyone this, but when my husband passed away seven years

1456
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:29,260
ago, she was at a different church, no one contacted me afterwards.

1457
00:56:29,260 --> 00:56:32,060
I've had no contact, nothing.

1458
00:56:32,060 --> 00:56:36,420
My heart, I just began to weep.

1459
00:56:36,420 --> 00:56:40,980
The Lord showed me that the reason why I was doing this was for her.

1460
00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:45,620
And then if it's for her, then there's many out there who feel the same way.

1461
00:56:45,620 --> 00:56:51,220
And she said, thank you for thinking of me because it didn't happen in our church.

1462
00:56:51,220 --> 00:56:52,500
It happened somewhere else.

1463
00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:56,980
But I told her, I said, God wants to bring you healing.

1464
00:56:56,980 --> 00:57:01,820
And the way he's going to do it is through us doing this dinner for you to show you that

1465
00:57:01,820 --> 00:57:06,740
you matter, that we know you're here.

1466
00:57:06,740 --> 00:57:10,340
You're seen.

1467
00:57:10,340 --> 00:57:12,980
We see you.

1468
00:57:12,980 --> 00:57:14,100
We see you.

1469
00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:15,340
We know you.

1470
00:57:15,340 --> 00:57:20,260
Now that we know these people that are coming, they will be seen even more.

1471
00:57:20,260 --> 00:57:26,660
And we want to elevate you and show you that you're honored, that God sees your pain.

1472
00:57:26,660 --> 00:57:29,740
And isn't that what everybody longs for?

1473
00:57:29,740 --> 00:57:34,140
Maslow, of course, in college, we learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

1474
00:57:34,140 --> 00:57:35,140
Number one is belonging.

1475
00:57:35,140 --> 00:57:42,180
But really, if you translate that into what it really means is we all want to be seen.

1476
00:57:42,180 --> 00:57:46,580
Isn't that what, if you look at social media, it's all about, I want to make an impact.

1477
00:57:46,580 --> 00:57:47,620
I need more likes.

1478
00:57:47,620 --> 00:57:49,780
I want to be more followers.

1479
00:57:49,780 --> 00:57:51,420
I want more friends.

1480
00:57:51,420 --> 00:57:53,140
I want more whatever.

1481
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:54,900
And it's all about being seen.

1482
00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:57,180
People are desperate to be seen.

1483
00:57:57,180 --> 00:57:58,500
They're crying out.

1484
00:57:58,500 --> 00:58:02,100
That starts in adolescence when you're in junior high and you're all dressing alike

1485
00:58:02,100 --> 00:58:06,260
because you don't want to be like everybody else, so you all dress alike because you want

1486
00:58:06,260 --> 00:58:07,260
to be seen, right?

1487
00:58:07,260 --> 00:58:08,260
Exactly.

1488
00:58:08,260 --> 00:58:10,300
But that translates all through our life.

1489
00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:16,140
That never goes away because it is a truly basic human need.

1490
00:58:16,140 --> 00:58:22,500
I think the greatest thing we can help others find is that not only are they seen by us,

1491
00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:23,980
they're seen by God.

1492
00:58:23,980 --> 00:58:25,460
He sees you.

1493
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:26,460
He feels your pain.

1494
00:58:26,460 --> 00:58:27,820
He catches every tear.

1495
00:58:27,820 --> 00:58:33,420
And you know, we've been in ministry together 30 years.

1496
00:58:33,420 --> 00:58:36,700
Almost 39 for you total.

1497
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:37,700
We've never done this.

1498
00:58:37,700 --> 00:58:40,780
We've never had a dinner, specifically.

1499
00:58:40,780 --> 00:58:45,860
But the Lord, when He put it on my heart, I thought it was because we've had all these

1500
00:58:45,860 --> 00:58:46,860
funerals.

1501
00:58:46,860 --> 00:58:49,100
When she came to me yesterday, it was not me.

1502
00:58:49,100 --> 00:58:50,860
I turned to her.

1503
00:58:50,860 --> 00:58:54,220
I said, Linda, this is for you.

1504
00:58:54,220 --> 00:59:00,620
God did this for you to heal your heart so that you can go on because she's never even

1505
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:03,540
told her own family.

1506
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:06,260
I'm so excited about this.

1507
00:59:06,260 --> 00:59:07,860
I left.

1508
00:59:07,860 --> 00:59:10,300
I literally felt like I was walking on air.

1509
00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:13,580
I was just like, Lord, I'm living for tomorrow night.

1510
00:59:13,580 --> 00:59:14,580
I am too.

1511
00:59:14,580 --> 00:59:18,420
I'm so excited about having dinner with Tina and Adam tonight because they're our best

1512
00:59:18,420 --> 00:59:19,420
friends.

1513
00:59:19,420 --> 00:59:22,100
I get to be at a table with these precious people.

1514
00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:28,340
One of the gentlemen that I talked to when I told him God put this on my heart, he said,

1515
00:59:28,340 --> 00:59:29,900
I want to share about why.

1516
00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:31,860
Yeah, he wants to tell a story.

1517
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:32,860
And it's powerful.

1518
00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:34,180
I'm not going to share it now.

1519
00:59:34,180 --> 00:59:37,540
I'll wait till afterwards because I want to make sure he's OK with it.

1520
00:59:37,540 --> 00:59:38,540
It's intense.

1521
00:59:38,540 --> 00:59:39,540
It's intense.

1522
00:59:39,540 --> 00:59:41,260
I mean, like shocking.

1523
00:59:41,260 --> 00:59:43,020
He just developed the whole program.

1524
00:59:43,020 --> 00:59:46,740
OK, well, now if you share your story, maybe that will open.

1525
00:59:46,740 --> 00:59:47,740
And that's what he said.

1526
00:59:47,740 --> 00:59:48,740
We're going to create it all.

1527
00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:52,540
I want to open it up to where other people will want to share their story.

1528
00:59:52,540 --> 00:59:56,060
OK, this is probably the most exciting thing, even though there's only 15.

1529
00:59:56,060 --> 00:59:57,820
I can't tell you're excited at all.

1530
00:59:57,820 --> 01:00:02,580
I'm more excited about this than anything besides the K-Love Awards, obviously, because

1531
01:00:02,580 --> 01:00:03,580
that was a travel trip.

1532
01:00:03,580 --> 01:00:10,700
But just in our church, doing something that elevates and helps people feel loved.

1533
01:00:10,700 --> 01:00:13,940
And it's falling into what Jesus said.

1534
01:00:13,940 --> 01:00:17,580
You're truly blessed in true religion, he said.

1535
01:00:17,580 --> 01:00:19,340
This is powerful.

1536
01:00:19,340 --> 01:00:24,500
True religion is ministering to and loving widows and orphans.

1537
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:26,900
That's what the Bible says.

1538
01:00:26,900 --> 01:00:32,500
I've really seen a correlation between orphans and divorces.

1539
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:38,980
When you've been left by someone abandoned and rejected, you are an orphan.

1540
01:00:38,980 --> 01:00:40,740
So that's the next one.

1541
01:00:40,740 --> 01:00:42,660
We will do one just for divorces.

1542
01:00:42,660 --> 01:00:44,580
Then we're going to do one for divorces.

1543
01:00:44,580 --> 01:00:47,300
You and I can relate to that hugely.

1544
01:00:47,300 --> 01:00:49,060
I can't relate to the widows.

1545
01:00:49,060 --> 01:00:55,100
That level of rejection is almost unbearable when you're the one who's on the receiving

1546
01:00:55,100 --> 01:00:56,860
side of that.

1547
01:00:56,860 --> 01:00:57,860
And you talked about it.

1548
01:00:57,860 --> 01:00:59,140
You said this on Saturday.

1549
01:00:59,140 --> 01:01:03,540
And then Linda reiterated it, which I was surprised because you said, this is not a

1550
01:01:03,540 --> 01:01:05,100
club you want to belong to.

1551
01:01:05,100 --> 01:01:06,100
Yeah.

1552
01:01:06,100 --> 01:01:08,740
You don't sign up for this.

1553
01:01:08,740 --> 01:01:09,740
There's a lot of clubs we sign up for.

1554
01:01:09,740 --> 01:01:11,740
You don't sign up for the orphan club either.

1555
01:01:11,740 --> 01:01:15,180
But not the widow club.

1556
01:01:15,180 --> 01:01:16,180
And that's what she said.

1557
01:01:16,180 --> 01:01:20,460
We've had an unusual, even in our own church, and I'm sure this goes for most churches or

1558
01:01:20,460 --> 01:01:25,780
many churches, especially churches that have a broad spectrum of ages, we have a broad

1559
01:01:25,780 --> 01:01:26,780
spectrum.

1560
01:01:26,780 --> 01:01:31,220
There's a lot of parents who've lost children.

1561
01:01:31,220 --> 01:01:32,220
Yes.

1562
01:01:32,220 --> 01:01:33,220
It's shocking.

1563
01:01:33,220 --> 01:01:34,780
I almost think we need to do another one for that one.

1564
01:01:34,780 --> 01:01:35,780
I don't think in the same thing.

1565
01:01:35,780 --> 01:01:36,780
But you know what?

1566
01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:37,780
I think God's in that.

1567
01:01:37,780 --> 01:01:38,780
This matters.

1568
01:01:38,780 --> 01:01:39,780
It matters.

1569
01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:45,700
I think whatever matters to God should matter to us and we should do something.

1570
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:46,700
And why not?

1571
01:01:46,700 --> 01:01:52,980
Let's just let this year be the year of, let's show people who have certain circumstances

1572
01:01:52,980 --> 01:01:56,100
that they did not sign up for.

1573
01:01:56,100 --> 01:01:57,100
Show them that they matter.

1574
01:01:57,100 --> 01:01:58,100
I'm all in.

1575
01:01:58,100 --> 01:01:59,100
And that we're in.

1576
01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:00,100
There you go.

1577
01:02:00,100 --> 01:02:01,100
You just got us.

1578
01:02:01,100 --> 01:02:02,100
I'm all in.

1579
01:02:02,100 --> 01:02:03,100
Next one is divorcee.

1580
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:04,620
Next one is people who've lost children.

1581
01:02:04,620 --> 01:02:05,620
Yeah.

1582
01:02:05,620 --> 01:02:07,220
And whether it's five or 50.

1583
01:02:07,220 --> 01:02:08,220
Exactly.

1584
01:02:08,220 --> 01:02:09,220
It doesn't matter.

1585
01:02:09,220 --> 01:02:10,220
It doesn't matter.

1586
01:02:10,220 --> 01:02:11,220
No.

1587
01:02:11,220 --> 01:02:13,460
How can we let you know that we see you?

1588
01:02:13,460 --> 01:02:14,460
Exactly.

1589
01:02:14,460 --> 01:02:15,460
And that we hear you?

1590
01:02:15,460 --> 01:02:16,460
Yes.

1591
01:02:16,460 --> 01:02:19,700
And we may not have experienced exactly what you've gone through because we've experienced

1592
01:02:19,700 --> 01:02:22,100
some of this, but not all of it.

1593
01:02:22,100 --> 01:02:24,380
But it shows we care as a church.

1594
01:02:24,380 --> 01:02:25,540
We care.

1595
01:02:25,540 --> 01:02:26,700
And we're listening.

1596
01:02:26,700 --> 01:02:27,700
Not just a support group.

1597
01:02:27,700 --> 01:02:28,700
We want to hear your story.

1598
01:02:28,700 --> 01:02:30,940
Because a lot of these people go to support groups.

1599
01:02:30,940 --> 01:02:31,940
Yeah.

1600
01:02:31,940 --> 01:02:34,340
But what about a church that says we care too?

1601
01:02:34,340 --> 01:02:35,340
What?

1602
01:02:35,340 --> 01:02:36,340
I know.

1603
01:02:36,340 --> 01:02:37,340
There you go.

1604
01:02:37,340 --> 01:02:39,340
It's the body of Christ being the body.

1605
01:02:39,340 --> 01:02:40,340
I believe that's a God thing.

1606
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:41,820
So church being the church is the way I say it.

1607
01:02:41,820 --> 01:02:42,820
Exactly.

1608
01:02:42,820 --> 01:02:43,820
Church being the church.

1609
01:02:43,820 --> 01:02:44,820
Exactly.

1610
01:02:44,820 --> 01:02:45,820
Loving people.

1611
01:02:45,820 --> 01:02:46,820
And you know what?

1612
01:02:46,820 --> 01:02:48,100
Big churches can do big things, but you know what?

1613
01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:49,220
Small churches can too.

1614
01:02:49,220 --> 01:02:50,220
And we're a small church.

1615
01:02:50,220 --> 01:02:55,100
We're actually a big church in a small community, but we're a small church.

1616
01:02:55,100 --> 01:02:56,100
Yeah.

1617
01:02:56,100 --> 01:02:57,100
In essence.

1618
01:02:57,100 --> 01:02:58,100
And you know what?

1619
01:02:58,100 --> 01:02:59,100
Yeah.

1620
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:00,100
Let's just show the love of God to people.

1621
01:03:00,100 --> 01:03:01,100
Love our people well.

1622
01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:02,100
You know what?

1623
01:03:02,100 --> 01:03:05,940
If we do nothing else in this next year, let's be known for loving people well.

1624
01:03:05,940 --> 01:03:06,940
Exactly.

1625
01:03:06,940 --> 01:03:08,260
I think that is our motto this year.

1626
01:03:08,260 --> 01:03:09,260
Loving people well.

1627
01:03:09,260 --> 01:03:10,260
Yes.

1628
01:03:10,260 --> 01:03:11,260
There you go.

1629
01:03:11,260 --> 01:03:12,260
Woo.

1630
01:03:12,260 --> 01:03:13,260
I love that.

1631
01:03:13,260 --> 01:03:14,260
Shock and awe.

1632
01:03:14,260 --> 01:03:15,260
I got to tell you, this has been so much fun.

1633
01:03:15,260 --> 01:03:16,260
Wow.

1634
01:03:16,260 --> 01:03:17,260
One of our favorites, I think.

1635
01:03:17,260 --> 01:03:18,260
Here we go.

1636
01:03:18,260 --> 01:03:19,260
Hey, we love you guys.

1637
01:03:19,260 --> 01:03:20,260
Thank you for listening.

1638
01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:21,260
Oh, thank you for your support and your encouragement.

1639
01:03:21,260 --> 01:03:22,260
You guys are rock stars in our eyes.

1640
01:03:22,260 --> 01:03:23,260
We want to love you guys.

1641
01:03:23,260 --> 01:03:24,260
We love you guys.

1642
01:03:24,260 --> 01:03:25,260
We want to love you well.

1643
01:03:25,260 --> 01:03:28,260
We want you to know you're seen and heard.

1644
01:03:28,260 --> 01:03:29,260
Yes.

1645
01:03:29,260 --> 01:03:35,340
Thank you so much for the things you've written in, the notes, the text, the questions.

1646
01:03:35,340 --> 01:03:36,340
We're all in with you.

1647
01:03:36,340 --> 01:03:37,340
Keep them coming.

1648
01:03:37,340 --> 01:03:38,340
Keep them coming.

1649
01:03:38,340 --> 01:03:39,340
We love you.

1650
01:03:39,340 --> 01:03:54,340
We love you.