Pastor Mark Driscoll here welcoming you to the podcast. I've been teaching the Bible for more than 30 years and real faith is an extraordinary ministry with a great team. It's not a big team but they're making a big

difference at a big impact and we'd love you to prayerfully consider

partnering with us especially with a one-time or ongoing recurring, all the proceeds will help us get Bible

teaching out and our hope, prayer and goal is next year to get to total reach

impressions included of a billion plus people hearing about Jesus Christ through Bible teaching.

Your prayers, your partnership would help us to do more and more and more and so in advance thank you for

your partnership. I'll tell you a little bit about our story and the reason is

if God can heal us and fix us and save us there's hope for you.

Like if you think you're messed up let me tell you about my story. So at the age of

17 I met my now wife Grace.

We were in a public high school, and I thought,

oh my gosh, that's the cutest girl I've ever seen.

And so I wanted to get to know her.

And at that time, I was not a virgin, I was not a Christian.

I grew up in an environment where there were strip clubs

down the street from my house,

and it was kind of a not the best place to be.

And so nonetheless, I met Grace, and I asked Grace I was like hey you

seem really nice can we be friends and then after I was like hey could we date?

She's like are you a Christian? I was like well does that matter? She's like yeah I

only she's pastor's daughter I said oh oh yeah, I only, she's pastor's daughter.

I said, oh yeah, no, this is Def Con 5 situation here,

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