And So, Well, good evening, porch. How we doing tonight?

Hey, it's so good to see you. My name is Timothy Atikka. I'm one of the teaching

pastors here at Watermark. I want to give a huge shout out to some of our porch live locations.

We've got porch live Fort Worth, porch live Boise, porch live Des Moines and porch live Scottsdale. So glad that you guys are tuning in tonight and then we've got a lot of people right here in Dallas and so glad that you guys are here as well. So several years ago almost a decade ago I was the executive director

of a ministry in Waco called Vertical Ministries which is a ministry on the campus of

Baylor University and vertical met on Monday nights and hundreds of students would gather together,

kind of like what we're doing now to worship and to study the Bible together.

And one of the perks of doing ministry at Baylor

was the third floor of the Baylor Library

was all spiritual books,

which is really helpful for someone like me.

So they had every resource that I could ever once.

So I did a lot of my work from the third floor of the Baylor Library.

And I will never forget this one time that I went up to work at Baylor's Library.

I went up and it was during finals week and so the library was packed.

Usually it was easy to find a space.

On this particular day I had to take a lap around the entire floor.

So I started going to my left,

and I walked all the way around

until I finally found one place to sit.

And when I sat down, I'm going to be honest I was a little disappointed because I

entered the library with some pride in my heart. I thought you know what I speak to

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