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Now on to today's message.

All right, friends, let's get right into this. So excited to have this time with you. We could

not be more honored to have you. Briefly, what are we doing here? Like, how did this, how did this happen at the macro level?

Like, you're, even y'all agree your life is pretty wild, but just how, give us the quick

Genesis story, Cliff, of how we even got here. And then, Stuart, if you can compliment that

of like what the last 24 months has been like, I think that the intersection

of those two things answer the, hey, how did we get to this, like to what we experienced

on campus today and talking about the Bible in front of like 7 or 8,000 people in an arena,

you know, like, how do we get here? Forty-five years ago, I was with a intervarsity beach

evangelism project in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,

and I decided that I was going to stand up and preach to those sunbathing bodies.

And so I began to preach, and they began to hop off their towel and tell me what an idiot I was for believing in Christ.

And so I dropped my outline, and I began to dialogue with them.

And after about an hour, I was tired and so I said,

I've got to go back to the hotel. And then InterVarsity college students started coming up to me

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