Hey, welcome to the Happy Grant podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

Joined by Ronnie Martin and Barnabas Piper, who's just returned from just the glitz and the glamour of the

Southern Baptist Convention.

Pipe, can you tell us anything about that?

By glitz and glamor, did you mean like pop bellies and and stretchy chinos that's exactly what I meant

because you're reading my mind I think we've been hosting together too well and there's

nothing like pot bellies and stretchy chinos in St. Louis in June when it is around 274 degrees.

St. Louis in June, the city of dreams.

Oh, it's amazing.

They have a big bent metal thing that's the feature of their city. Yeah, it's nice. I knew I picked the wrong denominated. It just radiates the heat, you know, but at least you get that nice breeze off the river.

Yeah, it smells like uh, it smells like industrial waste, it's awesome.

It smells like industrial waste and then you add to that the glamour of just various

pastors from the South.

Who may also smell like industrial waste.

Who may or may not, you know, we're not saying one way or the other.

So I know this is a,

let's call it precarious topic just given your employment status

with the Southern Baptist organization, but can you share like one funny story from from your time?

Yeah I feel like you are I feel like you're asking me to to like hopscotch through a

minefield here I gotta be careful. careful. Funny story. Let's see. Well, okay, so this is this is a this is sort of a

quintessential Southern Baptist moment and it fits the podcast well. So I I was

witness to this. It did not happen to me. I was so as our team with Lifeway leadership we had a booth set up so we're talking about a

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