Well, howdy, my name is Pastor Mark Triscoll. I'm here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Church We Planet is a family four years ago and also have the honor of distributing Bible

teaching through real faith and honor to speak to you today. I'll just be totally honest. I think

a bunch of you are pastors and leaders. It's Monday, so I kind of got preacher hangover and I'm just

going to verbal process some stuff with you. Maybe just a little bit of an informal chat.

God saved me at the age of 19. I became a senior pastor at the age of 25. I was not ready. I did not

know what I was doing. God was still incredibly gracious and a lot of people got saved and a lot of

things got done and in my years was largely dealing with college students and it's interesting

because colleges tend to be culturally upstream and a lot of the ideology that dominates the

university eventually finds its way down into the culture as it flows downstream as those kids

graduate. They start to create culture. They start to establish laws. They start to

celebrate whatever it is that they believe was kind of that gospel that they were given in the

university and they carry it forth into the culture and it becomes the bedrock for society,

for government, for media, for technology. So if you want to see what the future looks like,

go to the university and eventually those kids will be the culture makers and the gatekeepers

and they'll let you know what's coming. So I got saved in college. A lot of my early ministry was

in college ministry. Started a church that ultimately God was very gracious with and it was largely

college students. But over those maybe two decades altogether of ministry before we relocated

to the valley, it was just a constant conflict and head-on collision and some of which I understood

culturally, some of which I've come to understand as I've gotten a little bit older and I just

wanted to share it with you. Another thing I just feel inclined to say, and I'm just going to

verbal process for a bit. I've got a couple notes and we'll see how this goes. That early on as a

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