Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway Podcast. Thanks for listening. Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakaway's Executive Director Timothy Atik.

We hope you enjoy the message. And It feels so good just to worship together again.

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I want to start tonight just by sharing with you next week,

my wife, Catherine, I, we will celebrate 14 years of marriage,

which is a pretty awesome thing.

But what that means, what that means

is that it has been almost exactly 15 years

since we went on our first date.

And that date went so well that we had a second, third, fourth, and fifth date and

after the fifth date I decided that it was time for Catherine and I to have what is called

a DTR.

I think you're familiar with this lingo if you're not DTR simply stands for

defining the relationship. It's that moment in a relationship where the

guy and the girl have this moment of truth

where they just kind of express their feelings

for each other, and they gain clarity

on where the relationship is and where it's headed,

and that clarity is what leads to confidence in the relationship.

And so I decided that on our sixth date,

I was going to have a DTR with Catherine at a U2 concert. I don't know if you've ever heard of the band,

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