Beyond a Billion: Celebrate the Bible

April 24, 2026 | 57:34

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| Beyond a Billion: Celebrate the Bible | April 24, 2026

Tonight on praise...
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One billion opportunities to experience the word made flesh.
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It is 1,000% something that god has done.
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Onebillion downloads of the living word of god, which is
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Active and powerful and never returns void.
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If he used a group of people from silicon valley to create
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The bible app, people would have said, that makes sense,
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But the fact that he used a church in oklahoma to do it is,
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I think, for one important purpose,
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And that is it doesn't make sense.
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The first billion that took 17 years at this trajectory, we
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Believe the next billion will come in five years, and the
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Third billion will come in the next three.
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We can never underestimate what god wants and can do through
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Single acts of obedience in our lives when we surrender
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Everything that we have.
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I found that god uses all of it.
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Praise comes to you today with
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The word billion in it. for some reason,
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Not just a billion, but beyond a billion.
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Our guest, bobby grunwald.
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All one hour.
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I want you to kind of look at this, and then we're going to
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Unpack a story for you that
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You're not going to want to miss.
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Watch this.
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All of us are here together to celebrate the word of god.
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It's not just pages and pixels.
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It's a person that we're celebrating tonight.
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His name is jesus.
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Give him a shout of praise tonight.
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Come on. is anybody thankful for jesus?
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This is the word of god, this unshakable, unmovable,
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Unbreakable, founding doctrine for us.
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He reaches the world, and yet he still chases after the one.
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By the unmerited favor of god,
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You're made right with god
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By the grace of god. when we get to heaven,
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We're going to be worshiping.
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We're going to be falling more in love with our creator.
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This is the day that the lord has made, and i'm grateful to
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Be alive and living in it.
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Come on.
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There is nothing more important
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On the earth than the word of god.
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And everything we do is designed to help people read
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And understand and love the bible.
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And that's what we're celebrating today.
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His word, once again, is going
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To go forth into this next generation.
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Bobby grunwald.
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My app,
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The you version, was open today when i just kind of got on set
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And opened it up.
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It was opened up to psalm 110, and i learned something through
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Your app that i believe--
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I hope it's accurate,
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Uh, that psalm 110 is the most
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Quoted psalm of the new testament.
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Uh, how do i know that?
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Because i have a bible on my
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Phone and it is called youversion.
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We, uh, we have to unpack a story here.
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Can you take us back all the way back in the wayback machine
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And give us kind of the beginning?
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How far back do you want me to go?
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Well, i don't need you in toddler in diapers, but, uh,
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But let's start, let's start kind of where you and
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Technology maybe started emerging.
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Kind of an interesting story. yeah.
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As you were sitting in the back of a car dealership
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Somewhere in illinois.
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Yeah, well, it was actually it was in oklahoma.
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But when i went, i went to college and i live in oklahoma
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Today, and i grew up in illinois, but moved to oklahoma
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For college.
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And while i was in college, i needed a job to make date money
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Really is what i needed.
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And so it was $6 an hour, and i was working in the back office
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Of a local car dealership, and i was really bored.
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It was one of these jobs where he'd get done with everything
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That you needed to do, and then just have nothing to do.
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So i started listening in to conversations that were
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Happening in the back of the car dealership.
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And one day this group from california came in.
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It was in 1995, and they came in proposing to build a website
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For the car dealership.
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Well, the problem was, is i actually had no idea how to
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Build a website.
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I just wanted to challenge.
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I wanted the challenge of it.
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Yeah. in fact, back then in '95, there were not books on how
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To build websites.
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There were not even websites on how to build websites.
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Uh, days of maybe aol
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And what what other companies existed?
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Aol existed and then you had-- myspace?
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No, no, long before that.
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Yeah. no, i think it was before the netscape browser.
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The netscape browser was like one of the first browsers that
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Everybody knew about.
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This was like before that there was something.
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Yeah, it was really early on.
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And, um, and so i didn't, i mean, i love a challenge, but i
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Went around our dorm and i found a couple guys that were
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Sort of in the internet underground and talked to them
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About like, how do you build a website?
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And so they gave me and gave me some instructions and i worked
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On it, came back to mr.
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Bailey and said, here's the website.
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And he liked it.
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But i said, i don't think you're going to sell cars in
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1995 on the internet.
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I do think you could sell parts and accessories.
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And i knew the margins that they had were huge.
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And so i said, why don't we just create a website?
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And we called it honda parts.com, and we sold honda
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Car parts out of the back of this car dealership, and within
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A few months, they were selling hundreds of thousands of
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Dollars in car parts and accessories.
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I was still getting paid $6 an hour.
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Oh, no.
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But loved it though, because i actually had a
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Challenge and it was a fun job.
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And then one day, mr. bailey calls me into his office, and
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He was a christian businessman,
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And i remember sitting across the desk from because i was a
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Bit intimidated. i'd not been summoned to the office before,
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So i didn't know if i was in trouble or what.
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And he said, what do you plan on doing in life?
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And before i could even answer, he said, whatever it is that
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You're going to do, i want to invest in it.
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My goodness.
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And it was just one of these moments.
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I've had, you know, a handful of times in my life
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Where you just recognize that god's doing something
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Completely unexpected.
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I didn't know what to say.
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I told him i would think
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About it and i would then pray about it.
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Um, and i prayed about it.
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I was like, god, is this one of those opportunities?
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Am i supposed to step into this?
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I was a finance major.
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I was planning on, on doing investment banking or financial
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Planning or something in that whole space.
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Um, i never thought about being an entrepreneur.
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I never had a model of it in my life.
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My parents weren't entrepreneurs, didn't have any
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Uncles or anybody that were entrepreneurs.
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Um, so, but he saw something in
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Me that i didn't know was in me.
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And i felt like it was god's direction.
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So i put together a business plan, created what's called a
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Web hosting company.
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In the process of building the website for him, i realized you
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Have to have places to, servers to put these on and to host the
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Website on the internet.
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So i thought people are going to need web hosting.
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And there were very few companies in the world
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Focused on web hosting.
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I think we were one of the first 20 in the world.
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And so mr. bailey was our first investor.
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He had another friend that was also an investor, and we were
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Full time college students.
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We still had no idea what we were doing.
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I brought a few friends in with me into it, and it was a
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24/7 operation.
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Clients in 33 countries that grew really fast, and we were
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Providing tech support to japan in the middle of the night and
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Just all kinds of chaos.
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Um, and a lot of fun and a lot of learning, you know, from it.
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But that was the first business. we sold that, uh, that would
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Have been in '98 when we sold it and started another company
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That acquired the largest professional wrestling website.
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Okay. which is where we became friends.
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I used to shoot all the commercials for hulk hogan and
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Mr. t for wrestlemania back in the day.
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And so you were involved in wrestling in a
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Strange way briefly.
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Briefly. yeah, it was '98 til the end of '99 or early 2000.
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And i thought, you know, god's given me favor in this space.
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Like, i have the ability.
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I didn't even know that i had the ability, but had
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The ability to start companies,
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Sell companies, grow, even grow companies in the
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Middle of that.
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And and i thought, this must be what i'm designed to do.
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And maybe my contribution to the kingdom is to be to finance
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Ministry or to be a financial contributor, that maybe that's
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What god designed me to do, which is really bizarre, since
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I didn't grow up in a family
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That had those kind of resources.
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And, and i didn't think that way, but yet god had yet a
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Different plan for me because in the middle of that second
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Company, my wife and i started
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Attending a church called life church.
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Craig groeschel, craig and amy groeschel started it.
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It was just a small new church, but growing really quickly.
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And today it's a multi-site church in many states, but at
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That time it was just one location. fell in love with,
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We fell in love with the church on the first day, wanted to get
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Involved. i, i, we joined a small group and the small group
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Was the worship leader for the church and he found out
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That i played keyboard.
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Being an entrepreneur is not a, not an easy task.
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And there was a lot of hours, but then it didn't bother me.
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On the weekend, i would just come in and just i was there at
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The church the entire time.
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So we fast forward and we sell the company later that
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Year after we had we had joined the church.
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And, and we're talking that was a sizable company.
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And that was a sizable sale.
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And that made the newspaper headlines.
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And i mean, that was a--
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It had me in the front page of the paper, and it was, you
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Know, a multi-million dollar sale of this company.
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And so, uh, the executive pastor at the church, his name
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Is jerry hurley.
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He still one of the leaders there at the church.
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He reached out to me, or first of all, he saw the article and
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He said, isn't that the guy that plays keyboard
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On the worship team?
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Um, because-- wait a second.
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Because i never talked about
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What i did in business at church.
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It just never even crossed my mind.
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It wasn't a point of conversation.
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I was, you know, i was 23 years old, so people probably didn't
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Even think that i did have a business at the time.
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Had a job, yeah. or even had a job, maybe.
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Yeah. so he asked if i would be willing to go to lunch with
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Him, and i said, sure.
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So i kind of thought that he wanted to go to lunch to help
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Me calculate what 10% was on the number, on the number
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That he saw. in case you didn't know.
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Just in case i didn't know.
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Um, and honestly, you know, my wife and i, we've been tithers
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And we would, we were, that was not a question.
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There was no question about that.
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But instead, that's not actually what, what he wanted
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To talk about.
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Instead, he just said, what do you plan on doing next?
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I said, well, i plan on starting another company.
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I mean, this feels like what god designed me to do.
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And he said, well, have you ever considered like what you
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Do in business, like using those gifts and those
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Talents in the church?
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Mm. and i was like, no, man, i've never considered it.
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And he's like, well, would you consider it?
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I said, no, because i love my church.
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And i just thought if it became my job, i don't know,
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I don't think it would be the same.
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And also because i just had never connected those two
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Things before.
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I mean, i, if anything, i felt like it was a one way street.
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Like i would learn about how to be a better leader or about how
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To be a better follower of jesus at church.
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And i would then take that into the workplace and hopefully
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Implement that and apply it to how i treat people and my team
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And all those things.
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But i never actually thought that what i was doing there
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Would have implications or ministry, you know, use
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Until that lunch and that lunch connected the dots for me.
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And so i said, well, how about i just volunteer my time and
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Help in other ways?
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I didn't even know that there was a place for it.
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And as i begin to do that, it became a ten hour a week, 20,
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30, 40 hour a week volunteer position.
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And about a year later, after doing a few other
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Small things in business,
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I just became real apparent to me.
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I was in the shower and i just remember i was like, god, is
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This another one of those moments where you've done
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Something unexpected and
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I just really need to step into it?
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And i felt like god said, yes, this is exactly what
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I want you to do.
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Um, so when i know that it's god's direction, i don't
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Have trouble obeying
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Like when i know it. you know, it's, it's usually pretty easy
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Because i've seen-- even at that point, i had already seen what
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He does when i step into the things that he, um,
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Positions me for.
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What hit me like a ton of bricks when we were
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Discussing off camera
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Is there could be a whole bunch of people in your old mindset,
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Or even the mindset you brought to that lunch with a senior
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Staff member who said, have you ever thought about having your
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Talents work inside the church and flow through and out
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From the church?
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Well, no you hadn't.
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Did we not understand the kingdom well enough to
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Understand that the kingdom is really everything, and that
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We're trying to grow the
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Influence of the church inside?
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Have we not had enough teaching?
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? why do you think you brought that mindset to that
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Meeting that now ultimately has completely changed?
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I do think there are a lot of people in business that
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Struggle to understand.
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They think that a kingdom impact would come from a
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Vocational ministry role in a church, but they feel like
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That's not designed for them,
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That's not designed for their gifts.
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In my particular case, god did actually lead me on to
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Staff at a church.
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So that was the calling, the path he took me on.
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He took me through business to that.
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Um, but i was already contributing those gifts as a
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Volunteer, you know, at the church prior to that, him
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Leading me in that direction. for other people though, and i
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Know many of my friends that are in business,
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God's called them into a particular place in the
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Business world with these unique gifts, and they have an
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Opportunity to actually use it for kingdom purposes, to kind
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Of-- because that is part, they're part of the kingdom.
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They're not separate from it.
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Um, i think there's an intimidation factor
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Business leaders have a lot of times when it comes to pastors
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Or vocational, you know, ministry roles, that they just
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Think that pastors are more spiritually intimidating
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To them sometimes.
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And, and pastors sometimes think the reverse and think
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That business leaders are better leaders and like,
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They're almost be embarrassed to kind of talk about like, i
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Feel like inadequate to talk about the things they like to
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Talk about because i don't know--
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So sometimes there becomes this
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Like almost communication barrier,
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Um, that's unnecessary because i think when everybody realizes
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We all play these different parts and there's so much that
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A business leader could contribute to the, the
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Thinking, you know, from behind a church or there's so many
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Things that can happen in the church that can be, can be, um,
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That a business leader can actually implement in this
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Business, can use his business for kingdom purpose in terms
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Of his perspective.
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I think it'd be just a freeing thing for people to realize
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That whatever it is that god's
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Called you to is the highest calling.
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Um, if he's called you to be the ceo of a company, it's the
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Highest calling.
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If he's called you to be a
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Teacher, it's the highest calling.
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If you're called to be a nurse, in this sort of sense that a
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Higher spiritual calling would be someone that's a pastor.
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Billy graham's calling isn't higher than the calling of
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Someone that's called to be an entrepreneur.
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Through our creation,
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Through incarnation,
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God spoke
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And the word went forth.
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At least 40 writers on three continents written across 1500
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Years or more, all revealing one story, god's word.
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And the word went forth.
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It moved into every sphere, into laws, legacies, ethical
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Foundations, transcending cultures, transforming nations.
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The word went forth into the sculptures of michelangelo,
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Into the melodies of handel and bach, into paintings,
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Literature, architecture, from hymns to hip hop.
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The word went forth in the hands of florence nightingale,
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In the labs of isaac newton and george washington carver, men
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And women who saw the universe designed by a father.
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And the word went forth into marathi by pandita ramabai,
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Into spanish, by casiodoro de reina, through samuel krauter,
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Into the west african yoruba language.
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And the word went forth in the journey of francis xavier,
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Sailing towards japan and beyond, and the dying prayers
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Of the korean martyr andrew kim taegon.
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In the hands of the abolitionist princess isabel of
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Brazil and william wilberforce and frederick douglass, reading
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God's word for god's will.
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At the forefront of hospitals and charities,
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Education and university learning amidst revolutions and
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Wars, surviving, banning and burning.
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And the word went forth,
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Outliving empires, skeptics and dissent, outliving those who
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Manipulated its words for the profit of men.
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The word went forth, on the court, the field, the pitch, on
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The charts, on the radio, in the frames of viola davis and
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The threads of jerry lorenzo.
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The word went forth.
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It was in the voice of billy graham and the prayers of
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Everyday people
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Pulling the steeple to the
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Streets and the streets to the steeple.
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The word went forth.
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It came to a pastor in a chicago airport with an idea he
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Wanted to unpack.
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But when the website didn't work, his team turned it into
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An app, and the word went forth.
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83,000 installs
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On the weekend it premiered.
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Then millions upon hundreds of millions.
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And now we are here more than 3500 versions in over 2200
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Languages, all for free.
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Right now, the bible is being carried on a phone in
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Every single country.
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Praise god, the word went forth. it's living.
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It's active, sharper than any two edged sword.
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The word has always been.
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And today the word goes forth.
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♪♪ [applause]
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We celebrate the 1 billion and now we celebrate the one more,
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The one more life that will be changed because
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The word goes forth.
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One more teenager who finds meaning, one more family who
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Finds hope, one more soul who finds salvation because the
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Word goes forth.
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More people are engaging with the bible than ever before.
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To the glory of god,
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The word goes forth.
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Come on, guys, sing it. [singing awesome god]
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Awesome! what an awesome god.
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Amen.
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Alright, as loud as you can.
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You guys be the choir in this place?
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Here we go.
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[singing] our god is an awesome
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Awesome god, he reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom, power and love our god is an awesome god
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♪ and god is great ♪
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♪ give him all the praise ♪
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♪ hallelujah. name above all names ♪
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♪ fire in his eyes ♪
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♪ healing in his veins ♪
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♪ everywhere, his glory on display ♪
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♪ take a look at those stars ♪
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♪ looking up, before his throne ♪
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♪ every knee falls ♪
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♪ the demons have to run ♪
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♪ the angels have to praise ♪
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♪ even the wind and waves obey ♪
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Come on.
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, power and love ♪
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♪ god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, power, and love ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ even when i ran, he didn't run away ♪
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♪ he came and put death back in its place ♪
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♪ dying on the cross, broken from my shame ♪
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♪ sunday morning rose up from that grave ♪
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♪ take a look at those scars on his hands and feet ♪
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♪ he saved our souls for eternity ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ glory to the king! ♪
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♪ come on saints ♪
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♪ let all the saints and the angels sing ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, power and love ♪
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♪ our god ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, ♪
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♪ power, and love ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ eyes on the sky ♪
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♪ there will be a day you come ♪
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♪ wipe our tears away ♪
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♪ no more fear ♪
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♪ no more pain ♪
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♪ no more sorrow, ♪
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♪ sin and shame ♪
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♪ the king is coming back again ♪
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♪ a reign of love that will never end ♪
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♪ for everything you've done and everything you do and ♪
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♪ everything you are ♪
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♪ i sing to you, my god, ♪
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♪ you're an awesome god ♪
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♪ you're great in all you do ♪
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♪ i'm made to worship you ♪
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♪ my god, you're an awesome god ♪
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Can you lift up a shout of praise tonight?
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Come on.
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You can do better than that in this house.
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The god who puts stars in the sky and breath in our lungs is
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Here in this moment.
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He deserves it.
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Come on. [singing continues]
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Every voice.
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With wisdom, power and love.
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Oh, forever we sing.
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, power, ♪
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♪ and love ♪
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♪ yes, our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above, with wisdom, power and love ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ our god, what an awesome god ♪
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Come on.
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What an awesome god
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Who meets us right where we're at.
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What an awesome god.
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The angels can't stop singing about how holy he is.
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He holds it all in his hands.
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And that alone stirs my heart to worship.
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But even more so that awesome god loves you and loves me.
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And we open up the scriptures and we can read about it
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Over and over,
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How he never stops pursuing us.
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He's long suffering with us.
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He wants us a part of his family forever.
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What an awesome god.
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So let's fill this place with worship.
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Every voice you guys take it.
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Our god.
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♪ and our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above ♪
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♪ with wisdom, power and love ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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♪ he reigns from heaven above, with ♪
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♪ power, and love ♪
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♪ our god is an awesome god ♪
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Praise him tonight, church.
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Come on!
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Praise! what an awesome god.
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What is day one of what we are now getting to celebrate in the
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Beyond a billion?
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Yeah. so the the initial idea for youversion started in
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Airport security line in chicago.
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Um, it's a tsa line. of course.
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Yeah. just god uses all these kind of interesting places.
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Um, what year?
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2006. october 27th, 2006.
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For whatever reason, i was distracted that day with just
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This thought of, i wonder if there's a way to use technology
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To help me read the bible more consistently. even though i was
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On staff at the church at this point, like five years in that
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Life church, i felt like a very inconsistent bible reader, and
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It was a bit of an embarrassment.
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Maybe there's a way that technology could just be
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Helpful to do it.
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So there in the security line, i had this idea for
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Youversion as originally a website.
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This predated apps.
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This was a couple of years before the app store came out.
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Okay, so there wasn't really a concept of mobile phone
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And phone apps,
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But this website idea had some novel features and i wanted to
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Come up with a name for it.
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So there in the airport, i'm an activator.
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So in the airport, between the security line and the gate, the
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Best name that i could come up with was youversion for this.
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And people say, where did the name come from?
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They say where the name come from.
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It literally came from like 800ft of careful market
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Research at the airport.
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Just the best name i came up with at the day.
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At that day, i didn't even know that people owned the bible.
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I thought that it was free and like it's been around for
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Thousands of years.
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And of course, i just didn't didn't even comprehend the
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Concept of english translations and the cost involved in it.
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And oh my goodness, the
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Publishers own the rights to it.
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To make you feel better
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I've never thought of that either.
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Yeah. well, in retrospect, it's
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Common sense, but at the time i'm just like, i never
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Thought about it. yeah.
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We also felt like it needed to be free for the
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People we were trying to reach, because at that point in time,
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You had you had a generation of people that couldn't fathom
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Paying $0.99 for a song that they loved.
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Right.
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Yeah. and you were asking them to pay $25 for a digital copy
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Of a book that they didn't understand.
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And so we're just like, this is we've got to figure out how to,
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To have it be free.
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So what i did was in, in may, um, i posted a blog post with
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Just a picture of what the website was going to look like.
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And i announced that the website's coming in september
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And you could sign up to to get early access to it.
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And the teams look at me like, what are you, what
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Are you talking about?
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I was like, well, we're going to have people sign up to get
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Early access.
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And i was like, yeah, but we don't have any.
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There's no website.
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Like we haven't built it.
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There's, we don't have anybody to build it.
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Like we were the very, very, very much hand-to-mouth
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Financially at the time,
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The church was. i was like, i know, but this is like
00:28:54.522 --> 00:28:56.758
How you do it.
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You just say it's going to
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Happen, and then it gets everything--
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You got to kind of get going,
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You know, get everything happening.
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Well, little did i know that god would use that website and
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Or that blog post in such a unique way.
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Um, there was a gentleman in florida who i'd never met
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Before who sees it, and he wants to have a
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Conversation with me.
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His name is rob hoskins.
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And rob calls me and i had never met rob before.
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He runs the children's ministry out of florida.
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He has all these questions about the website.
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Um, he gets off the-- he says,
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What are the obstacles you have?
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And i said, said, well, the first obstacle is we don't even
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Have permission to use a bible text.
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And i don't even know any of the people. well, without him
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Telling me, he gets off the call,
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He calls another gentleman named mark green, who is in
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My hometown.
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And so i receive a phone call from mark green that says, hey,
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I hear about this.
00:29:47.508 --> 00:29:48.643
You have this website idea, tell me about it, and i
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Explain it to him.
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Um, i knew of mark green, but i had never met mark green.
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Mark green owns,
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He's one of the hobby lobby family, the green family, but
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He also owned a chain of christian
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Bookstores called mardell's.
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And so mark's like, how could i help?
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And i was like, well, i don't
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Know, but here's one of the obstacles.
00:30:06.828 --> 00:30:08.296
And he says, well, we buy like maybe more bibles than anybody.
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So i could at least make introductions to the publishers
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Of all these bibles.
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So instead of trying to go through the front door, i can
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Get you right to the top people.
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And i said, well, that'd be, that'd be great.
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So he fires off emails to all of them.
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And when mark green sends an email to you,
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You take a meeting.
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And so they're willing to take a meeting.
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And i wish i could tell you that that they said yes, but
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Pretty much they all said the christian version of no, which
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Is we'll pray about it.
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And so i had this response over and over again.
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We'll pray about it.
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You know,
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Yeah. and, uh, that was the nice way.
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That was the nice way of not saying no, but we did
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Get one yes.
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And one yes was all we needed.
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One modern english bible that said yes, it was thomas nelson,
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New king james version.
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And that was, um, enough for us
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To launch a website in september.
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But that, that step of faith in launching a blog post, i didn't
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Know what was going to happen from that.
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God literally used the actual blog post to meet the
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One thing we needed.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And i think sometimes we, we struggle sometimes to just take
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Those first steps because we think we have to have
00:31:21.903 --> 00:31:23.771
Everything put together.
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We have to have it all figured out before we can sort of take
00:31:25.073 --> 00:31:27.408
The first step to walk into it.
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1 billion downloads of the living word of god, which is
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Active and powerful and never returns void.
00:31:33.948 --> 00:31:37.785
1 billion opportunities to experience the word made flesh.
00:31:37.785 --> 00:31:44.792
A billion opportunities for god to draw near to someone that's
00:31:44.792 --> 00:31:50.798
Hurting, and someone that's searching and
00:31:50.798 --> 00:31:54.435
Someone that needs saving from brokenness and sin.
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And now to imagine that every 39 days, the app is opened
00:32:00.541 --> 00:32:06.614
1 billion times every 39 days, almost 300 times every single
00:32:06.614 --> 00:32:14.922
Second, 300 times every single second.
00:32:14.922 --> 00:32:18.126
And god draws near to every single one
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Because god has always been about the one.
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And i know because i am one of those lives that have been
00:32:29.303 --> 00:32:34.208
Changed by the living word of god.
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I was three miles literally from here at a little
00:32:38.546 --> 00:32:43.584
University down the road, played college tennis. naia.
00:32:43.584 --> 00:32:47.922
If you don't know, naia stands for not ncaa.
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It's what it stands for.
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So i was a fraternity brother, lost and dead in my sins, and i
00:32:53.861 --> 00:32:59.133
Was searching and i, i, i thought maybe there is a god.
00:32:59.133 --> 00:33:02.270
And so i said to my fraternity brothers, we're going to have
00:33:02.270 --> 00:33:04.338
A bible study.
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They said the bleep, you are-- bleep was a bad word.
00:33:05.473 --> 00:33:07.375
I said the bleep we are.
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I um announced a bible study tuesday 7:00.
00:33:09.010 --> 00:33:13.548
And when i was on my way to a um a business marketing class,
00:33:13.548 --> 00:33:18.386
I went in and didn't have a bible.
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And when i walked out there was a gentleman from an
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Organization known as the gideons
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On that very day and said, young man, would you like
00:33:25.827 --> 00:33:28.563
A free bible?
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How good is god?
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I had-- there were seven guys, none of us christians, who sat
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Down in a room.
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I tried to act pastoral.
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I said, i turn to the first book in your bible.
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They all turn to genesis.
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I turned to matthew.
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I was like, no wonder it's free.
00:33:47.715 --> 00:33:50.218
It's a starter bible. [laughter]
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And we didn't know what we were doing, and we just would read
00:33:53.321 --> 00:33:56.591
The word of god and we'd try to pray.
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How many of you know that god's word is living?
00:33:59.594 --> 00:34:02.096
How many know that god's word is active?
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And for me,
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It was when i got to ephesians
00:34:07.335 --> 00:34:09.270
Chapter two, i read the word of god.
00:34:09.270 --> 00:34:13.808
I read ephesians chapter two, verses eight and nine that
00:34:13.808 --> 00:34:16.811
Said, for by grace
00:34:16.811 --> 00:34:19.547
You have been saved through faith.
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By the unmerited favor of god
00:34:22.984 --> 00:34:25.353
You're made right with god by the grace of god through faith.
00:34:25.353 --> 00:34:29.657
And this is not from yourselves.
00:34:29.657 --> 00:34:31.726
It's the gift of god, not by works.
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So no one could boast.
00:34:34.262 --> 00:34:35.563
And when i read ephesians two, eight and nine, the word of
00:34:35.563 --> 00:34:38.399
God, i went out all by myself and knelt down in a
00:34:38.399 --> 00:34:40.835
Little softball field,
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And i cried, and i sobbed out to god, if you're there and if
00:34:42.136 --> 00:34:45.139
You're real, and if this jesus thing is who he says he is,
00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:48.142
Take my life.
00:34:48.142 --> 00:34:49.410
And when i knelt down, i was one person, broken and dead in
00:34:49.410 --> 00:34:52.146
My sins.
00:34:52.146 --> 00:34:57.885
When i stood up,
00:35:00.721 --> 00:35:03.257
I was a new creation.
00:35:03.257 --> 00:35:06.060
The old was gone and the new had come.
00:35:06.060 --> 00:35:09.797
And i had been saved, not by religious activity and not by
00:35:09.797 --> 00:35:14.535
My own good works, but by grace through faith.
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And what i want you to know, when we stand here today and
00:35:19.473 --> 00:35:21.642
Celebrate a billion downloads of the word of god, that my
00:35:21.642 --> 00:35:25.446
Life was won changed
00:35:25.446 --> 00:35:28.716
By the word of god.
00:35:28.716 --> 00:35:30.284
Not when-- no one preached to me, no one witnessed to me.
00:35:30.284 --> 00:35:34.121
No one played a song to me.
00:35:34.121 --> 00:35:35.556
It was the living word of god that changed my life.
00:35:35.556 --> 00:35:39.660
And to be a part of the church now able to give the word of
00:35:39.660 --> 00:35:43.464
God away, because the first billion,
00:35:43.464 --> 00:35:46.133
It took 17 years.
00:35:46.133 --> 00:35:47.768
At this trajectory, we believe the next billion will come in
00:35:47.768 --> 00:35:51.038
Five years, and the third
00:35:51.038 --> 00:35:52.373
Billion will come in the next three.
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I'm going to tell you right now, i was one life, one life
00:35:54.308 --> 00:35:57.044
Changed by the word of god.
00:35:57.044 --> 00:35:59.313
And when bobby came and said, hey, do you want to give this
00:35:59.313 --> 00:36:01.849
Thing away?
00:36:01.849 --> 00:36:02.516
I said, can we afford it?
00:36:02.516 --> 00:36:05.353
Because i didn't know how much it was going to cost.
00:36:05.353 --> 00:36:07.688
And but our, our church took a step of faith and we said,
00:36:07.688 --> 00:36:11.259
We're going to give the word of god away.
00:36:11.259 --> 00:36:13.060
And people have said, why don't you monetize it?
00:36:13.060 --> 00:36:15.396
Why don't you do an ad?
00:36:15.396 --> 00:36:16.464
Why don't you sell something?
00:36:16.464 --> 00:36:18.065
Why don't you charge a dollar?
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I'm gonna tell you right now.
00:36:19.667 --> 00:36:20.635
I was saved by a free bible.
00:36:20.635 --> 00:36:22.103
Our bible is not for sale.
00:36:22.103 --> 00:36:25.473
Our bible-- with the--
00:36:23.738 --> 00:36:27.275
With the help of our partners and the generous partners who
00:36:27.275 --> 00:36:31.245
Have god's word, we will always give it.
00:36:31.245 --> 00:36:34.282
And it is our great honor.
00:36:34.282 --> 00:36:36.651
And although it's free to
00:36:36.651 --> 00:36:38.653
Receive, it is not free to create.
00:36:38.653 --> 00:36:40.821
And we remain unwaveringly committed to one vision.
00:36:40.821 --> 00:36:46.027
And that is this,
00:36:46.027 --> 00:36:47.662
Until jesus comes back, or as long as we live,
00:36:47.662 --> 00:36:50.464
Our vision is god's word, every one, everywhere and every day,
00:36:50.464 --> 00:36:58.472
Everyone and everywhere and every day.
00:36:58.472 --> 00:37:01.976
And i believe in the depth of my soul that we're standing on
00:37:01.976 --> 00:37:07.615
The edge of one of the greatest opportunities in history.
00:37:07.615 --> 00:37:10.785
As bobby said, there's a spiritual hunger like i've
00:37:10.785 --> 00:37:13.087
Never, ever seen before, and people are tired of fake and
00:37:13.087 --> 00:37:16.957
They're crying out for something authentic
00:37:16.957 --> 00:37:18.626
And something real.
00:37:18.626 --> 00:37:19.760
They are searching for jesus, the word made flesh.
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:26.267
The website launched in september.
00:37:26.267 --> 00:37:28.002
People were coming, but they weren't coming back.
00:37:28.002 --> 00:37:30.237
And fast forward now.
00:37:30.237 --> 00:37:31.372
And this is september, october, november, december.
00:37:31.372 --> 00:37:35.109
And in december, it became, the realization came to me that
00:37:35.109 --> 00:37:38.713
This has actually failed.
00:37:38.713 --> 00:37:40.281
This idea did not work.
00:37:40.281 --> 00:37:42.650
And this was after all of the hurdles and all the challenges.
00:37:42.650 --> 00:37:47.021
And there's even more that take way too much time to share.
00:37:47.021 --> 00:37:50.257
Um, you know, and as a leader, when you kind of set a vision
00:37:50.257 --> 00:37:53.828
For something and you get people to buy into the vision.
00:37:53.828 --> 00:37:55.663
A lot of people donated time to this because they believed.
00:37:55.663 --> 00:37:58.999
What year are we now?
00:37:58.999 --> 00:38:00.034
This is 2007.
00:38:00.034 --> 00:38:01.669
So bobby, hold just a moment because everything you had ever
00:38:01.669 --> 00:38:07.842
Done, god had breathed into it
00:38:07.842 --> 00:38:11.345
In a way that it was moving and growing.
00:38:11.345 --> 00:38:15.783
You had never seen failure. that had never been
00:38:15.783 --> 00:38:20.688
In your entire kind of--
00:38:20.688 --> 00:38:23.324
Not in a big way.
00:38:23.324 --> 00:38:24.525
I mean, there have been smaller ways,
00:38:24.525 --> 00:38:25.793
But yes, not in a, not in a very visible, very big, like
00:38:25.793 --> 00:38:29.864
We're going to do this
00:38:29.864 --> 00:38:30.865
And it's going to work and then it doesn't.
00:38:30.865 --> 00:38:32.166
So the thought is god uses a
00:38:32.166 --> 00:38:35.736
Blog post, connects you to mart.
00:38:35.736 --> 00:38:38.806
Mart connects you.
00:38:38.806 --> 00:38:40.007
You get the new king james version agreed to, which was
00:38:40.007 --> 00:38:43.544
Your biggest hurdle.
00:38:43.544 --> 00:38:44.812
You launch everything, big opening, and then the
00:38:44.812 --> 00:38:48.149
Trajectory is just a slow crash and burn.
00:38:48.149 --> 00:38:51.285
So what did you think at that time?
00:38:51.285 --> 00:38:52.887
Yeah. well, tell me about, tell me about waking up
00:38:52.887 --> 00:38:56.190
To that those days.
00:38:56.190 --> 00:38:57.792
Well, i mean, it is never, um, it's never fun.
00:38:57.792 --> 00:39:01.829
Um, probably more of what i was feeling was letting
00:39:01.829 --> 00:39:05.966
Other people down.
00:39:05.966 --> 00:39:07.501
Yeah. right.
00:39:07.501 --> 00:39:08.803
Because you have asked people to come with you and believe in
00:39:08.803 --> 00:39:12.673
What you're, what you're doing.
00:39:12.673 --> 00:39:14.842
Um, but i did know very clearly because i've had a lot of other
00:39:14.842 --> 00:39:20.214
Smaller failures, but i did know that part of growing and
00:39:20.214 --> 00:39:24.885
Taking risks,
00:39:24.885 --> 00:39:25.953
I mean, part of it's taking
00:39:25.953 --> 00:39:26.854
Risk and part of taking risk is failure.
00:39:26.854 --> 00:39:30.057
Now, i felt like what's important though, is to
00:39:30.057 --> 00:39:33.394
Actually acknowledge that it failed.
00:39:33.394 --> 00:39:35.796
And there's a reason for that.
00:39:35.796 --> 00:39:37.364
I find that the the fear of failure, most people think, is
00:39:37.364 --> 00:39:41.635
The fear that keeps you from starting something
00:39:41.635 --> 00:39:43.804
Because you're afraid.
00:39:43.804 --> 00:39:44.738
What if like, what if it doesn't work?
00:39:44.738 --> 00:39:46.640
That's the fear that holds you back from starting.
00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:49.510
I think in the ministry world and many times in the business
00:39:49.510 --> 00:39:52.713
World, the fear of failure is oftentimes the fear that keeps
00:39:52.713 --> 00:39:56.617
You from stopping something that's not working.
00:39:56.617 --> 00:39:58.652
Oh.
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Which is, which is a different expression of the same fear,
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:02.122
Because that's the point you actually have to fully
00:40:02.122 --> 00:40:03.924
Acknowledge, hey, this didn't work.
00:40:03.924 --> 00:40:06.927
But the benefit of that is that it allows you to go as deep as
00:40:06.927 --> 00:40:10.498
You need to go to understand why it didn't work.
00:40:10.498 --> 00:40:12.900
And if you're going to fail, you better learn from it.
00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:15.536
Like, god uses failure to help people learn.
00:40:15.536 --> 00:40:19.573
And, and so i'm not afraid to call it a failure.
00:40:19.573 --> 00:40:22.843
I'm not afraid to just, you know-- i don't try to massage it
00:40:22.843 --> 00:40:26.313
And treat it in a really nice way.
00:40:26.313 --> 00:40:27.948
So it's just really a, it's a beginning
00:40:27.948 --> 00:40:30.217
And we pivoted and we did this.
00:40:30.217 --> 00:40:31.852
It's like, no, no. that was the idea,
00:40:31.852 --> 00:40:33.420
And it did not work.
00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:34.955
Um, but what that did was it allowed us to say maybe the
00:40:34.955 --> 00:40:37.658
Fundamental problem was that it shouldn't be built for a
00:40:37.658 --> 00:40:41.161
Computer, which is what we were building it for.
00:40:41.161 --> 00:40:43.864
Maybe we should try to build it for a phone because we
00:40:43.864 --> 00:40:48.035
Recognize the computer just moved the bible basically from
00:40:48.035 --> 00:40:51.038
Our nightstand where it wasn't being read to our desktop, our
00:40:51.038 --> 00:40:55.142
Physical place in our office.
00:40:55.142 --> 00:40:56.510
So it's still it locked into one place.
00:40:56.510 --> 00:40:58.979
But at that point in time, we had these things called
00:40:58.979 --> 00:41:00.548
Blackberries that we carried with us that were called
00:41:00.548 --> 00:41:03.717
Crackberry actually, because they were like an addictive,
00:41:03.717 --> 00:41:06.921
Way of responding to email.
00:41:06.921 --> 00:41:09.123
And they had very simple screens and very simple kind of
00:41:09.123 --> 00:41:12.660
Browsers on them.
00:41:12.660 --> 00:41:14.495
We thought we should redesign
00:41:14.495 --> 00:41:15.529
The website to display it on a blackberry.
00:41:15.529 --> 00:41:18.198
And that was early 2008, january.
00:41:18.198 --> 00:41:21.402
So when we did that, it was profound how that simple
00:41:21.402 --> 00:41:24.505
Change, very simple screen, really did change how we
00:41:24.505 --> 00:41:28.208
Engaged in the bible.
00:41:28.208 --> 00:41:29.476
We would use it at the doctor's office while we're waiting,
00:41:29.476 --> 00:41:32.313
Like just in wherever, wherever we were,
00:41:32.313 --> 00:41:35.049
Scripture could kind of
00:41:35.049 --> 00:41:36.317
Intersect those parts of our lives.
00:41:36.317 --> 00:41:38.752
So that's happening in early 2008.
00:41:38.752 --> 00:41:41.655
Steve jobs in march of 2008 comes out and announces
00:41:41.655 --> 00:41:45.025
Something called an app store and the ability to develop apps
00:41:45.025 --> 00:41:48.429
For this new phone that had
00:41:48.429 --> 00:41:49.697
Just been out called the iphone.
00:41:49.697 --> 00:41:51.665
So we thought based on what we see god doing, we should try
00:41:51.665 --> 00:41:55.169
To build an app.
00:41:55.169 --> 00:41:56.604
The day that the app store launched, it was, it was
00:41:56.604 --> 00:41:59.807
July 10th, 2008.
00:41:59.807 --> 00:42:02.810
It was a thursday evening and our app made it into the app
00:42:02.810 --> 00:42:07.615
Store in the very first day, and there were only 200 apps
00:42:07.615 --> 00:42:10.884
In the entire store.
00:42:10.884 --> 00:42:12.453
And so we just were shocked.
00:42:12.453 --> 00:42:14.888
And then we were shocked, even more so by sunday.
00:42:14.888 --> 00:42:17.658
So thursday to sunday morning, we'd seen 83,000 people install
00:42:17.658 --> 00:42:22.196
It on their iphone, and you could tell that they were using
00:42:22.196 --> 00:42:24.665
It, like they were opening it multiple times a day.
00:42:24.665 --> 00:42:27.101
And, and so, i mean, i'm a pretty simple person, but when
00:42:27.101 --> 00:42:31.305
You see god do something unexpected, i've learned you
00:42:31.305 --> 00:42:34.908
Just take whatever resources you have, whatever energy you
00:42:34.908 --> 00:42:38.045
Have, and you just push it behind the things that
00:42:38.045 --> 00:42:40.681
You see him doing.
00:42:40.681 --> 00:42:42.282
We don't have to go create our own wave.
00:42:42.282 --> 00:42:43.851
When he's got a wave, we just want to join,
00:42:43.851 --> 00:42:46.153
You know, what he's doing.
00:42:46.153 --> 00:42:47.521
We have a lot of people that download our app that are not
00:42:47.521 --> 00:42:49.657
Believers, not christians.
00:42:49.657 --> 00:42:50.924
People say, well, why would you download a bible if you're
00:42:50.924 --> 00:42:54.328
Not a christian?
00:42:54.328 --> 00:42:55.629
It's because there's a lot of people that are searching for
00:42:55.629 --> 00:42:57.598
Truth and for answers.
00:42:57.598 --> 00:42:58.932
And in a world where so much content is created by ai and
00:42:58.932 --> 00:43:03.637
People are wondering, how do i trust what is real?
00:43:03.637 --> 00:43:07.007
What's the veracity of the content i consume?
00:43:07.007 --> 00:43:09.443
Is it actually true or not true?
00:43:09.443 --> 00:43:11.412
That video, i used to be able to say, i saw it with my own eyes
00:43:11.412 --> 00:43:13.914
And i know it's true.
00:43:13.914 --> 00:43:14.815
And now you can't say that anymore.
00:43:14.815 --> 00:43:16.116
And, well, the natural consequence of that is to
00:43:16.116 --> 00:43:20.187
Actually create a desire inside of people for content that's
00:43:20.187 --> 00:43:24.291
True for things that they can trust, because everything else
00:43:24.291 --> 00:43:28.562
Feels so shaky, and the bible stands alone.
00:43:28.562 --> 00:43:32.132
It's so unique.
00:43:32.132 --> 00:43:33.100
There's nothing else like it.
00:43:33.100 --> 00:43:35.035
So for thousands of years, it's been carefully moved from
00:43:35.035 --> 00:43:37.404
Generation to generation.
00:43:37.404 --> 00:43:38.706
Right now, at the museum of the bible, you can see the dead sea
00:43:38.706 --> 00:43:41.575
Scrolls on display, and you can see the consistency between an
00:43:41.575 --> 00:43:45.412
Artifact from thousands of years ago in the text that
00:43:45.412 --> 00:43:48.782
We're reading today, and know that this has stood the test of
00:43:48.782 --> 00:43:53.053
Time, which is way different than any ai generated content
00:43:53.053 --> 00:43:56.423
Or something that you're going to see.
00:43:56.423 --> 00:43:57.791
So we actually feel like the
00:43:57.791 --> 00:43:59.059
Bible is really built for this moment.
00:43:59.059 --> 00:44:01.361
It's like the antidote for the problem that people
00:44:01.361 --> 00:44:04.098
Are feeling right now.
00:44:04.098 --> 00:44:05.866
So that that causes us to just say, what can we do to, to
00:44:05.866 --> 00:44:09.503
Really push into this acceleration, to add as many
00:44:09.503 --> 00:44:12.639
Features as we can that can engage people to kind of help
00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:15.175
Build that trust connection that we're just talking about.
00:44:15.175 --> 00:44:18.011
So we're always working on it.
00:44:18.011 --> 00:44:19.246
Some people think, well, the bible app is already done.
00:44:19.246 --> 00:44:20.981
It's like, no, we've got like 230 people that work full time
00:44:20.981 --> 00:44:24.451
Doing nothing but trying to make it better.
00:44:24.451 --> 00:44:26.019
And it's in all these languages, we have content.
00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:28.655
We still need a lot more content in languages like
00:44:28.655 --> 00:44:31.091
Arabic and, and romanian.
00:44:31.091 --> 00:44:33.527
And just, you know, we're expanding kind of the base of
00:44:33.527 --> 00:44:36.430
All the bible plans that we have in english,
00:44:36.430 --> 00:44:38.198
We're trying to have create similar types of experiences
00:44:38.198 --> 00:44:41.301
For people wherever they are in the world that they open
00:44:41.301 --> 00:44:44.138
And it feels like it's created for them.
00:44:44.138 --> 00:44:46.006
So we are very much just getting started.
00:44:46.006 --> 00:44:48.142
Like we feel like the billions, it's a milestone, but it's just
00:44:48.142 --> 00:44:51.211
That. it's a milestone that we feel like god has so many more
00:44:51.211 --> 00:44:54.681
Things planned for it as we move forward.
00:44:54.681 --> 00:44:56.483
Help me land the plane.
00:44:56.483 --> 00:44:59.219
You understand that--
00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:00.354
You understand that term.
00:45:00.354 --> 00:45:01.955
You were a pilot, and
00:45:01.955 --> 00:45:05.793
We've hit a lot of things here.
00:45:05.793 --> 00:45:07.728
We've hit, you know, stepping out on faith.
00:45:07.728 --> 00:45:11.999
We've hit failing.
00:45:11.999 --> 00:45:13.901
Uh, we've hit all sorts of things.
00:45:13.901 --> 00:45:16.270
We've hit this dynamic of, of, you know, what is the kingdom?
00:45:16.270 --> 00:45:22.109
It's everything, you know, uh, help kind of wrap this up.
00:45:22.109 --> 00:45:27.648
Um, and then kind of give me a summary of what you, what you
00:45:27.648 --> 00:45:32.019
Think we've actually discussed today?
00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:35.989
Yes. we put a bow on all of that.
00:45:35.989 --> 00:45:37.524
Yeah. do a little, do a little cleanup for me.
00:45:37.524 --> 00:45:39.560
And then i got one last thing for you.
00:45:39.560 --> 00:45:41.195
Yeah.
00:45:41.195 --> 00:45:42.462
Well, um, i would say, um, we can never underestimate what
00:45:42.462 --> 00:45:49.002
God wants and can do through single acts of obedience in our
00:45:49.002 --> 00:45:53.640
Lives when we surrender everything that we have, all of
00:45:53.640 --> 00:45:58.278
Our experiences, including the stuff that we're not proud of--
00:45:58.278 --> 00:46:00.948
Yeah.
00:46:00.948 --> 00:46:01.915
To him, i found that god uses all of it.
00:46:01.915 --> 00:46:05.152
Yeah. um, our responsibility is to just listen for his voice.
00:46:05.152 --> 00:46:12.092
The best way, one of the best ways to listen for his voice
00:46:12.092 --> 00:46:14.628
Is in his word.
00:46:14.628 --> 00:46:16.330
So if you're not someone who is engaged in the bible daily like
00:46:16.330 --> 00:46:20.634
I am-- i wasn't. i was in that
00:46:20.634 --> 00:46:22.236
Same spot, you know, back in 2006.
00:46:22.236 --> 00:46:25.739
And i was just trying to solve a problem for me.
00:46:25.739 --> 00:46:28.342
Mhm. um, and i did, i do have
00:46:28.342 --> 00:46:31.745
Daily engagement in god's word today.
00:46:31.745 --> 00:46:34.882
Um, but the benefit of that is that you're able to then
00:46:34.882 --> 00:46:38.752
Discern god, where do you want me today?
00:46:38.752 --> 00:46:41.388
Mhm. what do you want me to take this step?
00:46:41.388 --> 00:46:44.358
Is this from you?
00:46:44.358 --> 00:46:45.592
And when you have that type of connection, that type of
00:46:45.592 --> 00:46:47.828
Relationship with our creator,
00:46:47.828 --> 00:46:50.397
Um, the types of things that he
00:46:50.397 --> 00:46:51.899
Can do through that are incredible.
00:46:51.899 --> 00:46:54.401
My journey is just a set of steps of obedience
00:46:54.401 --> 00:47:00.507
When you hear god's voice.
00:47:00.507 --> 00:47:02.676
There's been there's plenty of places where it was delayed
00:47:02.676 --> 00:47:05.245
Obedience, which means it's disobedience.
00:47:05.245 --> 00:47:07.681
But it was enough obedience in the right moments, in the right
00:47:07.681 --> 00:47:10.651
Times for him to kind of take the gifts that he's given me
00:47:10.651 --> 00:47:14.321
And, and do something with them
00:47:14.321 --> 00:47:15.889
Because i hear his voice and do that.
00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:18.158
And so i feel like that's maybe like a way to sort of pull
00:47:18.158 --> 00:47:21.428
Various parts of what you said all together.
00:47:21.428 --> 00:47:23.530
This little tiny little moment
00:47:23.530 --> 00:47:27.868
Of january, february of '08
00:47:27.868 --> 00:47:32.372
Working on the idea that you're
00:47:32.372 --> 00:47:35.175
Taking the bible from just a desktop--
00:47:35.175 --> 00:47:39.079
To a mobile device.
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:40.380
To a mobile device was a spark that you jumped into that even,
00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:47.554
You know, with just what would have been a tiny little sector
00:47:47.554 --> 00:47:51.558
Of the world of people carrying blackberries.
00:47:51.558 --> 00:47:55.128
At the time, that wouldn't have been a giant, you know, kind of
00:47:55.128 --> 00:47:59.199
World changing thing.
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:00.767
Little did we know, you know this,
00:48:00.767 --> 00:48:04.137
You know, a piece of fruit we carry around in our hands
00:48:04.137 --> 00:48:07.841
Called apple would become a device that virtually, and the
00:48:07.841 --> 00:48:15.148
Smartphone in general, uh, carried by virtually every
00:48:15.148 --> 00:48:19.086
Person on earth.
00:48:19.086 --> 00:48:20.253
Okay. you know, we do a lot of traveling.
00:48:20.253 --> 00:48:22.255
We've been in africa, and you walk around and somebody might
00:48:22.255 --> 00:48:26.493
Be walking with water on their heads, you know, still. they
00:48:26.493 --> 00:48:30.530
Don't have running water, but they do have a device.
00:48:30.530 --> 00:48:33.033
Right. and because communications is always going
00:48:33.033 --> 00:48:36.269
To find a way to happen at light speed, and that little
00:48:36.269 --> 00:48:40.707
Moment, that little thing, what if god's word could be
00:48:40.707 --> 00:48:44.745
In everybody's hand?
00:48:44.745 --> 00:48:46.446
Mhm. what if, what if.
00:48:46.446 --> 00:48:48.348
And that changed the trajectory of the kingdom of god in a way
00:48:48.348 --> 00:48:53.186
That you could have never foreseen.
00:48:53.186 --> 00:48:54.888
That's right. thank you.
00:48:54.888 --> 00:48:56.189
Love that. yeah.
00:48:56.189 --> 00:48:57.758
Pray for the audience, if you would,
00:48:57.758 --> 00:48:59.026
Please, sir.
00:48:59.026 --> 00:49:00.260
Yeah. father, we thank you for everybody that's watching
00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:03.063
And listening right now.
00:49:03.063 --> 00:49:04.064
Father, i pray that you'll
00:49:04.064 --> 00:49:06.867
Just speak to them right here in this moment.
00:49:06.867 --> 00:49:09.136
You've put dreams in their heart.
00:49:09.136 --> 00:49:11.238
You've put ideas, visions, um, maybe some things that they've
00:49:11.238 --> 00:49:15.575
Been hesitant to step into, trying to figure all get all
00:49:15.575 --> 00:49:19.146
The pieces in before they take the first step.
00:49:19.146 --> 00:49:21.048
God, i pray that you'll give them the boldness and the
00:49:21.048 --> 00:49:23.083
Courage to step into what you've called them to do.
00:49:23.083 --> 00:49:28.255
Father, we're just so humbled, each of us, that we even have
00:49:28.255 --> 00:49:33.060
The privilege to be used by you and your, your big plan
00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:37.364
And your work.
00:49:37.364 --> 00:49:38.432
Like, you could do this all by
00:49:38.432 --> 00:49:39.499
Yourself, god. you don't need us.
00:49:39.499 --> 00:49:42.102
Um, but you choose to do your work in us.
00:49:42.102 --> 00:49:45.338
And we see that in ephesians when we know, we say when paul
00:49:45.338 --> 00:49:49.142
Writes that you can do infinitely more, immeasurably
00:49:49.142 --> 00:49:51.978
More than we can ask, think or imagine, but it's through your
00:49:51.978 --> 00:49:55.982
Power at work within us.
00:49:55.982 --> 00:49:57.551
Father, i pray right now that the people that are watching,
00:49:57.551 --> 00:50:00.620
That they'll just seek your wisdom, your guidance, and step
00:50:00.620 --> 00:50:03.757
In boldness into what you've called them to do, that they'll
00:50:03.757 --> 00:50:06.760
Listen to hear your voice, that they'll, they'll,
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:08.829
They'll be in your word.
00:50:08.829 --> 00:50:10.730
Make it a part of their everyday life, god, so they can
00:50:10.730 --> 00:50:13.400
Walk in step with you.
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:14.935
Not not missing a step, but knowing that this step is
00:50:14.935 --> 00:50:17.737
Guided by you.
00:50:17.737 --> 00:50:18.939
You're giving them a step for
00:50:18.939 --> 00:50:20.207
Today and the step for tomorrow,
00:50:20.207 --> 00:50:21.575
Father, knowing that you're going to have incredible fruit
00:50:21.575 --> 00:50:24.578
And do immeasurably more through them, through their
00:50:24.578 --> 00:50:27.681
Steps of faith.
00:50:27.681 --> 00:50:28.915
Father, we pray this and we declare this in jesus' name.
00:50:28.915 --> 00:50:31.918
Thank you lord. amen.
00:50:31.918 --> 00:50:33.186
Amen. in conclusion, uh, bobby,
00:50:33.186 --> 00:50:37.691
Uh, the beyond a billion celebration that we, um,
00:50:37.691 --> 00:50:46.433
Aired right here on tbn live,
00:50:46.433 --> 00:50:48.568
And we're going to air it again
00:50:48.568 --> 00:50:49.803
A number of times and celebrate with you.
00:50:49.803 --> 00:50:54.508
Um, in conclusion,
00:50:54.508 --> 00:50:59.246
God chose you to do something in that mystery, that he
00:50:59.246 --> 00:51:03.450
Flows through us,
00:51:03.450 --> 00:51:05.652
But i think the biggest takeaway for me is you didn't
00:51:05.652 --> 00:51:10.023
Run out and build a deck and raise money to build something
00:51:10.023 --> 00:51:17.264
You had no idea how to build.
00:51:17.264 --> 00:51:19.533
And i think that's what god loves.
00:51:19.533 --> 00:51:22.035
I think that's what he loves to, to show himself.
00:51:22.035 --> 00:51:25.539
Because the word says he has chosen the foolish to
00:51:25.539 --> 00:51:28.775
Confound the wise.
00:51:28.775 --> 00:51:30.277
And that's happened here.
00:51:30.277 --> 00:51:32.045
I love that.
00:51:32.045 --> 00:51:33.046
Thank you for your bold steps.
00:51:33.046 --> 00:51:35.282
Yes.
00:51:35.282 --> 00:51:36.316
Even if you didn't even know what you're doing,
00:51:36.316 --> 00:51:38.785
Uh, god got the glory.
00:51:38.785 --> 00:51:41.154
Uh, and that's awesome.
00:51:41.154 --> 00:51:42.455
Well, can i, can i just add to it because i don't want there
00:51:42.455 --> 00:51:45.859
To be any any confusion by anyone.
00:51:45.859 --> 00:51:47.861
It is 1,000% something that god has done.
00:51:47.861 --> 00:51:51.231
I often tell people, if you used a group of people from
00:51:51.231 --> 00:51:54.701
Silicon valley to create the bible app, people would have
00:51:54.701 --> 00:51:57.070
Said, that makes sense.
00:51:57.070 --> 00:51:58.138
Those guys are smart in silicon valley.
00:51:58.138 --> 00:51:59.806
If he had used a publisher in new york to do it, they would
00:51:59.806 --> 00:52:02.509
Say, that makes sense.
00:52:02.509 --> 00:52:04.110
But the fact that he used a church in oklahoma to do it is,
00:52:04.110 --> 00:52:08.748
I think, for one important purpose, and that is it
00:52:08.748 --> 00:52:11.184
Doesn't make sense.
00:52:11.184 --> 00:52:12.919
It could only be him.
00:52:12.919 --> 00:52:14.287
Yeah. he gets 100% of the credit.
00:52:14.287 --> 00:52:17.624
It's nothing that we could have ever done on our own.
00:52:17.624 --> 00:52:19.826
And so it's all him.
00:52:19.826 --> 00:52:22.362
We just trust god when we step in faith and he provides, you
00:52:22.362 --> 00:52:25.565
Know, each step along the way.
00:52:25.565 --> 00:52:26.766
And so i, there is a purity in that, that i try to,
00:52:26.766 --> 00:52:29.936
Try to always walk in.
00:52:29.936 --> 00:52:31.538
But yeah, i'm an imperfect person for sure.
00:52:31.538 --> 00:52:34.674
This is definitely not something i've done.
00:52:34.674 --> 00:52:36.743
It's something that god's done, for sure.
00:52:36.743 --> 00:52:38.845
We can claim we're the generation that can start
00:52:38.845 --> 00:52:43.283
Putting in the phraseology of things that god wants to do in
00:52:43.283 --> 00:52:47.320
Our generation with the word billions.
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:50.123
Let's think billions now, because that's what god
00:52:50.123 --> 00:52:53.326
Wants to do.
00:52:53.326 --> 00:52:54.194
He's proven it through you, bobby.
00:52:54.194 --> 00:52:55.962
Thank you for what you've done.
00:52:55.962 --> 00:52:57.597
Youversion. uh, it's available and it's most likely on all
00:52:57.597 --> 00:53:01.534
Your phones already.
00:53:01.534 --> 00:53:02.869
Uh, thank you for what you've done.
00:53:02.869 --> 00:53:04.704
We'll see you next time.
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Bye bye.
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♪♪
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His favor be upon you
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And a thousand generations
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And your family and your children and their children
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And their children
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For his favor be upon you
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And a thousand generations and your family and your children
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And their children and their children
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His favor be upon you
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And a thousand generations
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And your family and your children and their children
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And their children, may his favor be
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Upon you
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And thousand generations
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And your family and your children and their children,
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Their children, may his presence go before you and behind you
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And beside you, all around you and within you
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He's with you
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He's with you in the morning and the evening, and you're
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Coming and you're going and you're weeping and rejoicing
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He is for you
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He's for you
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He is for you
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He's for you, he is for you
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He's for you
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He is for you
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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May his favor be upon you and a thousand generations
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And your family and your children and your children and
00:55:31.017 --> 00:55:36.356
Your children, may his presence come before you, and behind
00:55:36.356 --> 00:55:42.395
You, and beside you, all around you, and within you
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He is with you
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He is with you in the morning and the evening, in you're
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Coming and you're going in your weeping and rejoicing
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He is for you
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He's for you
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He is for you
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He is for
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Amen
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Amen
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We celebrate your promises.
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We celebrate your word.
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. come on.
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Praise the lord.
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Thank you, god.
00:57:29.469 --> 00:57:29.469

Beyond a Billion: Celebrate the Bible

April 24, 2026 | 57:34

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