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That's Breakway M-I-N. Today's message is from Matt Chandler, pastor at the

Village Church in Flower Mountain, Texas. We hope today's message is helpful to

you. Howdy, ex. I love that. So I was reflecting coming down here. There's

really only two organizations that have made such an impact on my own personal

life and own personal development in Jesus Christ that if I get an

opportunity to come preach, it actually causes like some real kind of

reflective weirdness in me. And as I was thinking about this and getting ready to

come here, it struck me that I was coming to Breakway before most of this room

was alive. And so then I'm like, when did I become Papal Chandler? Like I was the

young guy yesterday. I mean really I was and you might not think time moves

that fast, but I'm just telling you, in the early 90s, the early 90s, before

there was cell phones or any kind of social media or what I was powerfully

converted to the personal work of Jesus Christ on June 17th of, gosh, must have

been 91, 92. And my camp counselor, right, you know, youth camp, they put you in

groups and my camp counselor was Greg Maugh, who's the founder of Breakway. So

like even that, you're like, oh, they tell me about him. He sounds interesting. He

started this like in his like little dingy, like rat-filled apartment. Like when I

would come and we would like shoot. I think it's like it was it was terrible. Like an

all-bills paid should have been condemned terrible place. But then God had put a

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