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Is anybody in this building? Come on give God some glory. Well tell two or three people
around you and say "this is exciting!" I want you to look at this. These are the biggest
rows...in this church but ilding. Is these front rows. They're three sided. And they
hold more people than any other row. And we've got em back all the way to the camera booth.
Uh...with just youth. And this'll happen twice today. And last year, there was more in the
second one than in the first one. Well I guess that means young people don't like to get
up early. Amen? But uh....today's gonna be a little bit different. I didn't do this last
year. I did it the year before last. And it was a remarkable day. But I preached. And
uh...if preaching worked, we wouldn't need to do this cause I preach three times a week
here. So today I'ma take a different approach. I'm not gonna ben preacher. I'm gonna be "daddy."
And um...and talk to you out of my heart. And I don't want you to be nervous. I'm not
gonna make you do nothin'. Some of you sittin' here like you're scared out of ya mind. "Oh,
God. What's he gonna make us do?" I'm not gonna make you do anything. I just wanna talk
to you, and love on you. I'm not near as old as you think I am. I'm not near as irrelevant
as you think I am. And I have three teenagers in my house that keep me up to date on everything
that's going good and going bad in the world. I'm gonna pray for you. And I'm gonna talk
to you, for about 18-20 minutes. Then I'ma stop. And then I'ma give you a chance to respond
to what I said. And uh...I put a lot of prayer into this. I was here in this building by
myself in the dark late last night, praying for you. I was up early this morning before
the light came up, praying for you. There's some things that I'm gonna share with you,
that had happened in my oldest son's life, who is not with us this morning. He is somewhere
else in another state and I have talked to him this week. And asked his permission, to
share his story with you. My dream, is that one day he will come and share his own story.
(applause) But as of right now, I'm gonna share it
for him.