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Here's Grace to You Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, there's one thing very evident about that video.

We are all getting old.

It's about the close-ups.

Whose idea was that?

You know, the whole, basically evangelical church is being handed over to junior high people,

isn't it?

I mean, musically young people, and here we are with this geriatric music department that it's astonishing to think about it.

I mean, going way back, you saw one picture of the head Mary Jane Duncan in it, and she started as church pianist here.

And I think probably maybe 53 years later the Lord took her to heaven, but she played the piano for us over half a century.

Clayton's been here 40.

Steve at the organ, 30, 42.

Steve came before you did.

42 years.

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