Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I'm Ted Cluck joined as always by my good friends,

Barnabas Piper and Ron Martin. Big R, you have been living just a decadent lifestyle of travel lately, man.

I mean, really Bob Seger's the best when he saying just about life on the road and the the

excesses and the struggles are you back home today big are I am I'm back home for

a very you know I flew back to Ashland just to report the

podcast obviously because you even recognize it man does home even feel like

home anymore it doesn't I mean I'm looking at the walls right now. I'm looking into my kitchen. I'm looking into my liver

I'm just wondering where my home is now where my home is who I even am anymore. You know I don't know who I lost your soul to this you know this grinds now what second-tier

reformed comp did you just come back from man did I have the word like ignite or

equip or what are what are we looking at or regional

you know a regional something or other yeah actually it actually was

piper it was uh yeah it was a yeah you get you nailed it man it was a it was a

regional gathering of the church plant network

I'm with the pastor so I I let it with another guy and so yeah so we we we took about five hours and you know talked about all the things that you know

reform pastors talk about in five hours you know when you can reform pastors talk about anything in five hours?

That feels a little short.

That's about one.

Yeah, we only covered half a topic, you know, and we just moved on from there.

That sounds about working. To be clear for listeners, there's a distinction. you know and uh... and uh... just moved on from there

to be clear for listeners there's a distinct difference between a conference

and a gathering

i'm not sure what it is but there i feel like a conference has like

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