Well, howdy, my name is Pastor Mark Driscoll.

I'm here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Church we planted 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 gonna 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

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