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Wow, quite responsive.

Okay, are we good?

Let's go, man.

There's a guy in the first service that says up here that's like so responsive and it's incredible. I just love it so much. It's great to see you this morning.

A few years ago I made a pretty significant life transition. I had kind of parachuted out of a lifestyle of sport and football and decided to move to Waco, Texas, and thought that I would kind of take my next best step in life. And so I thought I was going to become an entrepreneur. And so I did what every aspiring entrepreneur does. I went to Common Grounds a lot, drink a lot of coffee and write a books. And I was really in my hustle game, man. I had million-dollar dreams, $5 work ethic,

and I met this tall new pasture would come into town.

And I met him right there in Common Grounds,

and we exchanged pleasantries and kind of hit it off.

And over the coming months, I ended up getting to no JP,

and one day we're sitting on his back patio,

and he says this to me, he says, hey man, he says, that football thing that you did was cute once. He says, why don't you get into a real battle and come join me in this ministry? And those truths, that's exactly what he said to me, and that was two years ago now. And so, you know, I've been in vocational ministry here for a couple years. And I would tell

you that since coming on staff, it's been easily one of the hardest things that I've ever done in my life. And that sounds really even just silly to say that. It sounds like a gross overstatement. It's like, man, rich, have you done anything hard in your life before? And I would tell you, yes, man, I've experienced a lot of hardship in my life.

I've done hard things.

But this thing right here is uniquely different.

It challenges in ways in me that I've experienced a lot of hardship in my life. I've done hard things. But this thing right here is uniquely different.

It challenges in ways in me that I've never been exposed before.

And it's not even uniquely like just the ministry.

It's not the people.

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