Well howdy, Pastor Mark Driscoll here, thank you for letting me help you learn God's word.

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Well, it's a great honor to be with you men and I think it's set up to tell you a little bit of my story.

My dad was a union drywaller and a blue collar guys.

You got a truck, you've got a tool belt, you've got a thermos full of coffee every morning.

That was my dad, Union drywaller construction worker.

And I grew up next to an airport before there was an incorporated city,

so a lot of prostitution and drugs and violence and gangs.

And I was one of the only kids in my neighborhood

to have the honor of actually having a father.

And really nobody in my family family I didn't know of any

man that had ever been to college and I didn't know of any men in my family my

immediate line they were Christians and so I ended up getting a

scholarship and heading off to college.

And there I was sitting in my dorm room as a freshman,

and I had to read some philosophy for a class at the State University and in addition to that was given a Bible by a

young woman that I've since married and my little joke is always if you're single

guy a woman buys you a Bible buy her her a ring, call it a deal.

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