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A couple of weekends ago, Craig, you and I attended, I guess what would be called the memorial service of a friend and ally of the ministry really really good man, families dear to us and your family. But it wasn't a

memorial service. It was a memorial celebration.

I'm going to put it out there.

I don't know what you're going to do with this.

There was an open bar.

There was a dinner.

There was feasting and toasting, there was worship music, play that it was so unconventional

and it came out of a very different interpretation of death that this family clings to than most do?

What was your reaction to that?

To the way they chose to?

I loved it. I loved it. Music, laughter, people mixing was a reunion of a lot of different circles of people, and it was a celebration of a life, and yeah, it felt like a

felt like a taste of what was probably going on at the same time in heaven you know just a bet

but it was it was good it was real good.

Did you notice how disrupted some of the attendees were by it?

And I think particularly those who weren't believers.

You could just kind of feel this awkwardness and I mean I

think those who understand the power of the resurrection and that this man is

actually quite well and he's doing just fine, you know, we're able to enter into the joy

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