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Good morning.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Acts

Chapter 1, Book of Acts.

Feel free to use your table of contents.

And if you didn't bring a Bible with you this morning, just to let you

know, we've got some Bibles available now out in the lobby. Thanks. Thanks for that help. Out in the

lobby, those are available. If you need one, then feel free to do that. If you're a guest, that's

yours to keep. If you're a member and you just kind of forgot your Bible, I encourage you to bring your Bible to worship. But those are available

to you because we're going to really be diving in this morning. So you'll need something to look at

there and follow along as we walk through Acts chapter 1 and 2. Let me encourage you to pull

out the notes from the celebration guide too too. They'll be a help for

you as we walk through God's Word together this morning. Well, it's the fall season. I remember

one particular game that Heather and I went to. It was Georgia versus Georgia Tech. And Georgia Tech is one of our rivals. We beat them pretty considerably, but they're still kind of a rival there in the state. And we were going to the football game. Somebody had given us tickets. It was at Atlanta there at Georgia Tech Stadium, and we got our tickets. We walked down to the seats, and we didn't know anybody else who was sitting around us, but if you've been to a college football game, you know what it's like. You immediately just kind of become best friends with everybody you're sitting around with. Just kind of united in your love for Georgia football there. And so we were sitting there and having conversation, just having a good time with most of the people there. There was this guy, though, on my left that was a little weird, a little different. There was just something there. If you've been to a college football game, you know these guys. They're just, there's something a little weird. And so I was kind of keep my distance a little between me and him. Remember the game started? We stood up. We started cheering. First time Georgia scored a touchdown.

Everybody starts going nuts. I start high-fiving a bunch of guys I've never met before.

And then, all of a sudden, I turned to my left. Big mistake. In an instant, I find myself in this man's

embrace. And he hugs me, and we start jumping up and down together.

I thought the guy was going to kiss me. We had a moment right there. And this continued the

whole game, not me and him hugging and kissing, but us, us just the intensity of that scene.

I remember at halftime, we were just talking with some of the folks around us, and they

were asking me what I did, and I told them I was in the ministry. It was really interesting.

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