Welcome to the Jesus Image Podcast.

How fantastic are you all.

Nick and I wish Nick was here with me.

He really wants to be.

I am married to the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh

in case you're wondering.

And we've been married for 29 years.

And he loves your pastors very, very much.

And we're not just saying that.

We're voice noting very frequently to one another.

And you ought to thank God that you are planted in such a great house under such great leaders truly because it is amazing what the Lord's doing here. I have a special passion

in my heart always for the six o'clock Sunday night service of everything I do around the world.

There's nothing like a six o'clock Sunday night service because it was on the 29th of January,

1989 that I walked into a six o'clock Sunday night service because it was on the 29th of January 1989 that I walked into a six o'clock Sunday night service in a warehouse in the back of Sydney, Australia, into worship like we just had so far away from Jesus. And that night I

encountered him in a way that I've never turned back from by his grace

and for his glory and I was thinking as I was watching all the young people worship and just

looking at you all in the balconies and I thought of all the things that the Lord has

blessed me and enabled me to do a six o'clock Sunday night service will just forever forever be so sacred to me

you just don't know who's sitting where because I was the person sitting right back there trying to

avoid everything and man you had short worship we used to do two-hour worship in those days and I couldn't

even make it through a whole service without going out for at least four or fivehour worship in those days. And I couldn't even make it through a whole service

without going out for at least four or five cigarettes

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