Okay. I was listening to John Lennox give his talk a few minutes ago and he made the statement at the end when he was teaching or telling a story.

He said, I was lecturing a room of atomic physicists.

I will never say that sentence. I love the diversity in the body of Christ and it was funny just recently maybe two weeks ago I was speaking

to an athlete in the US and he was thanking me for some of my teachings and he says,

you know what I love about it is that you keep it so simple for us.

And I told him, well, I don't really have an option.

It's just this polar opposite of what you just heard is about what you're about to get.

And he is going to be hitting more of the apologetic side of this track where they've asked me to speak

about evangelism today.

And as I was thinking through, how do I talk about this, how do I get started in it?

I thought I would just share my journey with you a little bit

because some of you have no idea about my life

and yet at the same time I feel like there are certain things

I learned about evangelism through this journey.

My mother actually died while she gave birth to me.

So that's an amazing legacy for me to know that my mother gave her life so that I could be on this earth and for some reason God wanted me here.

My dad remarried and then when I was about eight years old my stepmother died in a car accident.

And then my dad got remarried again and then when I was about 12 he died of cancer.

So by the time I'm 12 years old, I have had two mothers die.

My father died and when I was in high school,

my aunt uncle, whom I was close to, my uncle actually murdered my aunt and then killed himself.

And so it was a life that was filled with just sudden deaths, you know, lots of things

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