Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study here from the broadcast Plaza and Teleport.

Again, the empty room certainly miss all the guys who are here every Wednesday been hearing from

some of you. Be sure and check and let me know how you're doing. And then of course for those

of you that may be watching this for the first time because of the pandemic you've been given

some extra time. As a matter of fact, I had an email from from a guy Darryl who just found,

he just discovered this Bible study by sampling Googling during his time of during the pandemic of

you know, social distancing and being at home. And he just Googled you know any streaming

Bible study that he could find and he found this one. And I come to find out he was a fan of the show

and actually went to school at Samford University in Birmingham where our show is based out of

and where I'm doing this Bible study. And he sent this email pretty cool because I'd let him know

that we're glad to have him. He heard his first Bible study last Wednesday and he said I'm going

to go back and cover the entire study of John because as you know, we're getting toward the end

of the Gospel of John. He said it's my favorite book of the Bible. Back in 1980, I was a freshman at

Samford University and attended Shades Mountain Baptist Church which is my home church. Dr. Charles

Carter who is the pastor of Maritzus there. He was the pastor at the time and he said one Sunday that

the Gospel of John, and listen, I love this statement from Reverend Carter. He said in this guy's

never forgotten and he heard it in 1980. He says he said the wonderful thing about the Gospel of John

was that it was so clear that anyone could read it and understand everything they need to know

about following Jesus yet which we've discovered. It is so profound that you could study it for a

lifetime and never exhaust its teachings. He said the day he heard that from Reverend Carter at our

church in 1980. He went home and he said I read the entire Gospel of John that afternoon on my

dormitory bed and that was the day that Jesus became a real person to me instead of a collection of

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