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Well, about a decade and a half ago here at North Point and some of our campuses and even some

of our student partners who a bunch of them are joining us today. We had an environment

called Intimate Encounters, which sounds cool, but the description literally was something about

how this was a special T-adult married adult environment, which isn't a great thing to Google,

by the way, when you're trying to find out more about this environment that your church has.

And from the very beginning, we got the strangest of response that there be some people

like, what kind of church is this? And then there'd be other people go, okay, this sounds like my

kind of church, you know, like tell me more about this environment. And actually the joke started

amongst our staff and I probably shouldn't do this and telling our staff, but in our staffings,

our staff at that time was already large enough that in staff meeting, you'd stand up, you walk

up to the mic and introduce yourself. So I would walk up and say, hey, I'm Joel. I work at Bucket

Church. Everybody say, hey, Joel, because it was that kind of meeting. Anyway, so there's a guy

on our staff named Ben and Ben's really witty. And so Ben walked up to the mic one day and he's

going to share a story. He said, hey, I'm Ben. Everybody said, hey, Ben, he said, I work in the Intimate

Encounters store, which wasn't a thing, by the way, but that officially killed the name of that

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