In the list of things that I am that CJ just mentioned, he left out, perhaps the most important one,

I am a Christian hedonist, and therefore it's no sacrifice to be here.

I come from my annual PDI bath.

And I come to learn and absorb and grow and would probably come if I couldn't speak here just to have lunch with CJ again because he's a pastor to me, though he's younger than I am.

Believe it or not.

Doesn't have anything to do with hair.

Has everything to do with basketball.

Thank you. do with basketball. So he pastors me with his good heart, and there are many pastors who do that for me.

And I thank you for letting him minister to me in that way.

This looks like a field of lilies.

That's beautiful. I really like it.

I think I commented on that last time I was here that it took me back to my South Carolina days.

You don't really know how

out of it you are waving those things. That's really old-fashioned.

So keep on waving, and don't keel over, please.

In the heat.

So thank you so much, CJ, for another invitation.

I know how significant this event is in the life of the PDI churches,

and therefore for me to be here is really quite astonishing to me,

and I thank you for it.

I don't know how many of you have heard of F.F. Bruce.

He was quite a notable New Testament scholar in Britain, and he passed away here a few years ago, and was probably the premier evangelical

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