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The Michael Berry Show. Thank you. There's a clergyman, you can imagine how out of place I feel. I feel like a fish out of water.

Or maybe an owl out of the air.

I was preaching in San Jose some time ago,

and my friend Mark Kwame, who helped introduce me

to this conference, brought several CEOs and leaders of some of the companies here in the Silicon Valley

to have breakfast with me or I with them.

And I was so stimulated and had such, it was an eye-opening experience to hear them talk about the world that is

yet to come through technology and science I know that we're near the end of this

conference and some of you may be wondering

why they have a speaker from the field of religion.

Richard can answer that because he made that decision.

But some years ago I was on an elevator in Philadelphia coming down.

I was to address a conference at a hotel.

And on that elevator, a man said, I hear Billy Graham is staying in this hotel.

And another man looked in my direction and said,

Yes, there he is. He's on this elevator with us and

this man looked me up and down for about 10 seconds and he said my what an

anti-climax I hope that you won't feel that these few moments with me is not an anti-climax.

After all, this tremendous talks that you've heard and addresses, which I intend to listen to every one of them.

But I was on an airplane in the east some years ago.

And the man sitting across the aisle from me was the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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