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Hello to your friends, Greg Kogel here, and I am your host for this show today, and we have just come off a great weekend in Seattle, and I won't go in the blow-by-blow, because I think I did that for Orange County four weeks ago, and it was just as good as then.

But I will offer this thought, and this was our reality, a student apologetics conference, and in four weeks, actually from just a few days ago, four weeks ago, there, I'm looking for, what did I do with it?

Well, I don't have my, I'll have to get my announcements after the break, but in the middle of November, whatever that weekend is, 14th, 15th, 16th, something like that.

We'll be in, excuse me, Minneapolis, and I think we have like 2,200 to 2,300 already signed up. It's been really good.

But on Friday night, we do this very special thing, and the important thing that I want to focus in on right now is not so much the, the means of delivery of the information, which is magnificent, and the way our team has put together this special presentation, it's called the Late Night Reality Show, like a talk show format, it just works really well.

Excuse me, but it also works really well to lay a foundation for the theme of the weekend, and that is deconstruction and deconversion, and the way they're using the term deconstruction is that people are thinking about their point of view, their spiritual convictions, their faith, if you will, and their Christian faith.

And they are, as they say, deconstructing and the precise way we mean the term is that they are being critical of things that they don't like about Christianity or that they learned, which there's nothing wrong with that.

They have doubts, they have questions, they have concerns, but they are seeking to answer those doubts, questions, concerns, without reference to the Bible.

They are using some other source of authority, whether it's themselves, or their feelings, or their friends, or some YouTuber, or some rock star, or some movie star, or whoever it happens to be, some disgruntled Christian, that's the source of authority, and that's Scripture, and that's the difference between deconstructing and reforming.

Reforming, like Martin Luther did, is to go back to the text, and if there are things in the church that are not right according to Scripture, then we fix those and bring them in alignment with Scripture.

The difficulty has a lot of people don't like what Scripture actually says about a whole host of issues, and so they're looking not for an answer, but for an exit.

To quote Tim Barnett, and what I think is so great about this session, this Friday night and all day Saturday, and like I said in next month, it will be in Minneapolis, and then in February, it will be in Dallas, Texas, and March, it will be in Philadelphia, and in April, it will be in August of Georgia.

And you can go to RealityPollogetist.com and get all the skinny on that, but it just was, in a certain sense, even more impressed upon me, the significance of the, not just the material covered there, but the way it is all put together, and one of the reasons I thought of it, and I had a friend that was going to come on Friday night, wasn't able to make it.

And so they came on Saturday, and then hearing all this about deconstruction had a lot of questions about what is that anyway, and is this something that's really happening in the church, deconstruction leading to de-conversion, or what?

And of course, all of that was ground that was covered thoroughly on Friday night, point being on Friday night, we cover these foundational issues, so you have a sense of how to understand everything that follows the next day, all day Saturday.

The plenary sessions and the breakout sessions. So if you were anywhere within striking distance of Minneapolis, I have friends that are in Wisconsin, and I, I mean, I hope all Christian community there, people that I know I teach the church there in Woodruff every summer.

So I know it's a bit of a drive, three and a half hours, that ain't much, we usually get 15 different states at any given event. In fact, when I taught one breakout session,

for tactics, what I'm saying is just surveying a single breakout section, I session, I think I had at least five, maybe six states represented just in that one session.

So people drive from all over, and if you plan to do this with your youth group, we've had groups come from St. Louis to Dallas, they left at O'Dark 30 on Friday morning, signs on their van said, Dallas or Boston, then they drove all the way through Missouri, down through a portion of Oklahoma, and then down through Texas to get to Dallas for the evening event, which starts by the doors open, I think at 5.30 p.m., if you think about doing that, be sure to leave.

Really, really early relative to your point of embarkation, but basic point is just the the tremendous, I think, benefit and encouragement that young people are getting in light of the tremendous pushback they have been getting from culture and culture has been really tough, and it's going to get tougher.

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