Welcome to deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.

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Sometimes when you're living through history, you don't know it.

But like tonight we lived through history and we're actually doing some history right now because this is probably the first time of the history of the universe that we have converging podcasts, three converging podcasts. We've got deepen, we've got resilient and undaunted life. So I just need to know like from you guys because you haven't really done much like with your career, your resume is kind of whack. But like, what's it feel like to have this like tremendous meeting of the minds, you know?

Does it feel like to have this like tremendous meeting of the minds you know does it feel special it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like that at all does it feels like I'm trying to build it up to the guys that I know pretty good that I'm just going to catch up with that's what it actually feels like hey don't poo my idea come on me I think I think I think today feel special so I'm kind of tying it with, we just had a real special day. You called and killed an alligator today. I did. Was that cooler than talking? Spoke at 1122. Yeah. It was cool, but it wasn't as cool as the engagement of those men. It wasn't just like the amount of men showed up, which was incredible, but just that they came, they showed up here with so much passion. And I just really, it's really encouraging for me right now, because, you know, I'm sure everybody's felt the last few months of just this darkness. And so just to see this resurgent of a, there's just firelight inside of men right now. It's like, it made it a good day for me. So it kind of shadows your little trafecto. Yeah, well, you know, I was just trying, I had to come up with something to say at the beginning

because Vinky's not here, but no, the thing that's really interesting

watching, because people were making the joke because they're like, weren't you just here? I was like, well, yeah. So we have, they had saturated last week. This is coming out, you know, about a week or so after we record. And so that's basically church, like big time church, like Wednesday through Sunday, right?

Yeah.

And then everyone kind of got to catch their breath. And then, you know, continuing the worship is war series. And then we get in there tonight. And you never really know exactly what to expect, kind of with men's events, because we've all spoken to men's events before. And sometimes you get dudes that are like leaning forward a little bit. and then sometimes you get guys that are just kind of like,

there's like a little malaise. But the energy that was in the room tonight was like substantial before the first chord was played. And so like, I mean, Joby, you're just kind of used to this. This is kind of old hat for you. But like, I try to tell your staff, I'm like, do you all realize how weird this is? Like all this is very weird, but the timing couldn't be better

with what we're going through as a country too.

Yeah, I mean, this year we're focused on calling men to stand firm and act like men, and I just thought it'd be cool to have a men's worship night, and we're in a series called worship at war. And I just thought it'd be cool to have a warrior come tell war stories, you know? and bro, I mean, first of all, I could listen to like,

that on the field, warrior come tell war stories, you know? And bro, I mean, first of all, I could listen to like

that on the field war stories that you tell forever. But then also, the way you connected it to

like the enemy trying to kill still and destroy you, I mean like the devil trying to kill

you when you got home and trying to kill your marriage. And that amount of vulnerability was just really incredible because what we're trying to do is call men into the battle and worship is war. When you worship God, you're not worshipping you, you're not worshipping the devil, you're worshipping the one true God. And so in case you're a little slow on the uptake, that's what tonight was. We had this big men's event.

We've never done a men's event.

We don't do that kind of stuff. Yeah, I've never done a night like this. Never, ever, ever. We've had worship nights for the whole church. And dude, we, you know, there's 3,000 seats in there. We were packed here. We were packed at two of our other campuses. and it's just guys come into worship

and just hear you share your testimony.

I just felt super share your testimony.

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