Pastor John 10 years ago to the month was recorded, what I think to be the weirdest video

of you preaching.

You are speaking in front of thousands of Christian counselors in Nashville at the National

Gathering of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

Some reports claim that there was as many as 8,000 people in attendance, it was big.

And there you delivered a message titled, Beholding Glory in Becoming Whole.

Being and savoring God is the heart of mental health.

From the start of the message, you poured out your heart, you shared your personal struggles.

But what makes a video so weird is that for several minutes, the counselors responded

to your serious confessions with laughter.

Here's a brief clip of what I'm talking about.

So I thought I would spare you the analysis and just go ahead and tell you up front that

I'm a sinner.

And I'm a man who, to be more specific, must crucify the love of praise every day, a man

who is prone to freeze up emotionally when he's tired and then feels instinctively justified

in blaming it on somebody else, a man who loves to praise God in the great assembly

and feels a constraint on my spirit in my own living room.

All right.

Now it's about to get really weird.

Check this out.

A man who never feels sure of his motives, including the ones I feel right now about

why I'm doing this.

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