Welcome to the Wild Builder Show. This is Tim Barton, and normally our friend Rick Green would be doing this portion telling you that this is the intersection of faith in the culture or something along those lines with words. I don't know. I don't usually do this part, but today it is

my dad and I. Rick Green is on the road and we are excited to be able to join in a conversation with one

of our good friends later in the program, Dr. Jim Garlo, who dad, you have known longer than I have.

You and Jim have actually written a book together. I did get to help. I contributed a chapter in the book you

guys were drafting, but he is somebody that has been inside of the church world and ministry,

inside of academia for a long time. And as we've had conversations off air over the last many

days and weeks, talking about we are seeing God on the move in the nation.

We've talked about at universities where college athletes and these different kinds of coaches

have been leading Bible studies and there's been baptisms and just so many indications in California

where they had the

largest baptism in the U.S. 7,700 plus people were baptized. In Atlanta, Georgia, 1,600 plus

people are baptized. God is clearly on the move. And it's not just here in America. There's

things happening internationally. And it doesn't mean there's not challenges and problems. It

doesn't mean there's not areas where maybe the church couldn't do better or we should be working to do better. And we can talk about

maybe some of those areas too. But there's no doubt God's in the move. And we thought, you know,

our friend Jim would be a great guy to have on talk about this because just like we travel and talk

about history, he works with a lot of pastors around the nation, but also around the world.

Yeah, and he has a long track record. He has now officially retired as pastor, but he is

busier now than he's ever been all over the world with leaders across the world. And my days

with him go back to, we were in politics together back in the early days while he was pastoring

a church here in Texas.

Then he had a mega church they passedered very successfully in San Diego and now is all over

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