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Paddock Pastor: How Tim Stewart Found His Calling in Motorsports Ministry · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Invariably, on Sunday mornings, many of us joke that being at the
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track is like being at church.
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The holy trinity of duct tape, zip ties, and petrol is how
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we do the sign of the cross.
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In reality, many of us forget that there are many motorsports complexes
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that have churches on site, and many others have chaplains in presence.
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And with us this weekend as part of SRO GT America, we're delighted to be talking
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with Pastor Tim Stewart for Motorsports Ministries about what he does here as
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part of the larger motorsports community.
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So Tim, we want to welcome you to Break Fix to tell us a little bit
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about what Motorsports Ministries is and how you got involved in all this.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, that's a good story.
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I'm no redneck stock car guy.
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I mean that in a wonderful sort of way.
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I'm from Bristol, 220 miles due west of where we're sitting in southwest Virginia.
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Bristol Motor Speedway was, uh, built in, like, 1960.
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And my dad came home from work one night and he called me Bud.
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Said, Bud, you want to go to that race out at the speedway this coming Sunday?
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I said, well, yeah.
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And so we went.
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and I got hooked.
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We left that racetrack that day in 1960.
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And I had, I was a fan forever of a fellow named Richard Petty.
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And my daddy was a fan forever of a fellow named Junior Johnson.
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Y'all remember Junior Johnson?
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And so it was stock cars with a smattering of drag racing because
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five years later, they built Bristol Dragway, which is where they're having
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the NHRA Nationals this very weekend.
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And then I would watch some sports car racing on TV.
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But again, this is back in the sixties and TV coverage of
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things was not what it is today.
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Fast forward a bunch of years to 1994 and my wife and I are at
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the summertime race in Daytona.
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It's gone through different iterations of names.
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I still remember it as the firecracker 400.
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We were there.
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NASCAR is called pit passes.
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We had scored pit passes somehow or the other or garage passes as
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opposed to here where it's paddock.
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We went.
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And it was hot.
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It was hotter than it was as hot as it was here.
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Two days ago, we were walking around in the garage area.
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We got some water sat down under this tent, and I was
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a fan of all things NASCAR.
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And I recognized a man who was sitting at that table.
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Think he's still with us.
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I'm not sure.
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Max Helton and Max Helton was the founding chaplain.
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I'm the chaplain of MRO, Motor Racing Outreach, which does the chaplain,
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uh, chapel stuff in, in NASCAR.
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And so I'm not a shy person, so I introduced myself and we chatted, and
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he invited us to chapel the next day.
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Well, anybody could go to chapel, but he said, just come and see what we do.
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And so race weekend is over, my wife and I are driving back home.
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We live in Florida, so it was only a four hour drive.
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We're driving back home, and I said, how in the world does one get a gig like that?
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To marry two things.
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I love being a minister of the gospel and being able to do ministry
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with people and motor sports.
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1994.
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Fast forward to 20 19, 25 years later, I was at Sebring.
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That's kinda my home track.
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It's only an hour and 20 minutes away.
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And so I was at Sebring for the 12 hour and I went down to the Motorsport
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Ministry's tent where they have a silent auction that that's a big fundraiser
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for us every year, every non covid year.
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And so I went down there to see Terry Borella.
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Backup just a little bit to 2001.
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There was a man in our church.
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I was the pastor of a, believe it or not, burnt store, Presbyterian
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church in Punta Gorda, Florida.
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And two of our members were Charlie and Anne Earwood.
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People listening to this podcast will be familiar with the Earwood name.
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Charlie and Ann, they had two sons.
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One son is named Terry Earwood, who is name is ubiquitous
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throughout the motorsports world, not just sports car racing.
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And then Steve Earwood, Terry's brother, Steve owns the Rockingham,
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North Carolina drag strip.
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And so Charlie invited me to Sebring in 2001.
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He said, come over as my guest.
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And I had, you know, stuff to wear around my neck and could go anywhere.
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It was brand new to me.
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I mean, I was a virgin and I was just looking at stuff and I saw the baddest
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looking race car I'd ever seen in my life.
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The number 26 Saleen S7R, driven by Franz Conrad and Oliver
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Gavin and Terry Borcheller.
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And so when I went back up to Charlie to see him throughout the
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day, I told him about that car.
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And he said, one of the drivers is a fellow named Terry Borcheller
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and he's a very devout Christian.
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And I said, well, this is cool.
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I have a favorite car and a favorite driver.
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And so I was a fan of that car and of that driver.
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Fast forward to 2004.
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I went over for Thursday night practice.
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I enjoyed doing that.
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I'd drive over and drive back.
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Like I said, it wasn't a long drive, and it was kind of rainy, and I had an
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umbrella, and I saw the number 63 Simcoe Saleen that Terry was driving, and they
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were aiming the headlights or something like that, and Terry was walking around,
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and I walked up to him, and maybe he stopped and chatted with me because I had
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an umbrella, and it was raining, and he didn't have an umbrella, but not really.
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He's a nice man.
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And I introduced myself and we met each other then 2004 in 2007,
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he preached at a Saturday night worship service at the church.
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I served in Punta Gorda and our fandom became an acquaintance,
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which became a friendship.
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And of course we were all along brothers in Christ without even
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knowing each other because that's the way the Christian family works.
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And so I would see and chat with Terry from time to time about
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stuff back to 2019 Sebring.
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I walked down to the tent to see Terry, gave him a hug.
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How are you doing?
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He asked me, what are you retiring?
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I said, well, I'm not exactly sure, but it's coming up pretty quickly.
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Why?
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And he said, I want you to come and be a chaplain with Motorsports Ministries.
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And I said, can we talk about that?
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And what do we do next?
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And so we've carved out some time.
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What do we do next is why don't you go with me to a race and then you'll do a
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race by yourself and see if it works out.
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In other words, see if you like it and see if we like you.
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That's life.
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And so we went to Watkins Glen in 2019.
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That's where I met Tom Dyer.
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And there was a hurricane.
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Well, I can't remember the name of that hurricane.
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Doreen, I believe it was.
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Something like that.
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Yeah, it was bearing down on Florida.
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Terry's flight on Sunday was canceled, so he had to fly out on Saturday.
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Well, we were going to do Chapel on Sunday.
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Terry said, I've got to go home.
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You've got to take me to the airport because I've got to get home.
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And it's your baby now.
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And I appreciated the trust.
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That meant a heck of a lot to me.
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I was going to do Chapel anyway, just because that was going to
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be my maiden voyage, and he would be there, et cetera, et cetera.
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And then the second race I did by myself, and that was at the Road America.
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And then of course, uh, then 2020, Daytona was wonderful.
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And then I went to St.
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Petersburg for our SRO race and the GT4 cars were on track and about 20
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minutes into their session, the world stopped, the race was canceled, track
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went silent and everybody go home.
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That's not exactly the way they put it.
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We kept racing that year.
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So I did the COVID year and I did 2021 and here I am now.
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And so anyway, was God married those, you know, I told my sweet wife, Karen,
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how does a person get a gig like that?
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I guess just pray and be patient.
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And it took God a while, you know, 25 years, but God made it happen.
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And here I am getting to do something that I love to do ministry and motorsports.
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That's my story.
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And I'm sticking to it.
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So listeners, if you've been to many races, you're probably familiar
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with the fact that at the opening ceremonies of many of the events,
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Especially the larger events.
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There's always some sort of dedication by a pastor.
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You look at things like petite Lamont or the Indy 500 or the Daytona 500.
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There's always some sort of short little service or blessing to the
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entire crowd, to the drivers, et cetera.
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I'm assuming that's just one of your responsibilities here at SRO.
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So what do they have you doing throughout the weekend while you're here?
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Let me say two things.
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One, we don't have.
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invocation, a prayer at the beginning of our SRO races out on the racetrack.
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We don't do that.
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And two, Motorsports Ministries is not a part of SRO.
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SRO is a gracious, gracious host for us.
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And they support us.
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And they welcome us.
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I'm not in a position, and neither is Motorsports Ministries, to say
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we're going to have an invocation before the start of each race.
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Who are we to say something like that?
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And so we don't.
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Interestingly, there's another sports car racing series in our great nation
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that does have an invocation before that.
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And I'll go to another venue this summer as I did last year, and I will pray
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there will be the presentation of the colors and the Star Spangled Banner
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performed somehow or the other, either by instrumentally or someone will sing
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it, and then there will be an invocation and a prayer, and I was invited to
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do that in another venue in another.
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in our great nation.
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It's a wonderful observation and a great question to which I don't have an answer
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with respect to our SRO series because we don't do that yet every single race.
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So let's speak in generalities.
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What does a motorsports chap do?
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Yeah.
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Let's say, you know, across all the different disciplines of
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motorsports, I'm sure you're busy every weekend with different
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organizations at different tracks.
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So What are your responsibilities?
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Yeah, well, there's some time at home doing stuff, and that's preparing a chapel
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service, deciding what I want to do.
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Then there are logistical things that need to be done.
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Where and when is chapel going to be?
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We were fortunate this weekend, as I mentioned, I got to pray at the
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beginning of the driver's meetings, and that's where we talk, yeah.
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I got to mention the when and the where and tell everybody
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about them, which was fantastic.
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And then to advertise.
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I, you know, a lot of people resist using that word with respect to things,
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uh, ecclesiastical things to do with the church, but it is advertising.
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If I know ahead of time, when and where I can make these wonderful
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four color posters and put them out.
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And I only had one poster this time and it's between the men's room
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and the women's room over there.
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Well, but that's a good spot because everybody's going to, so many
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of the fans are going to see it.
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Now that's for the fan to reach out to them and let them know.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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for the people on the inside.
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I mean, the drivers and the crews and all that stuff.
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I have mentioned it, like I said, three times at driver's meetings,
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but also we have this wonderful app.
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Do you have the SRO MA GT America app on your phone?
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And it's wonderful because, and it's free at the Apple store.
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So I don't think I'm giving away a, you know, a trade secret or anything.
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And you get all the notifications.
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You know, you see who's in trouble, and you get a picture of the penalty,
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you know, Tim Stewart got a penalty for causing a red flag or something.
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And so, I'd use it very judiciously, but I'd take a, a JPEG of the poster
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that I'm going to put out, make it the right size so it'll fit into the window
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on that app, and then send it out.
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So everybody who receives all that other information receives a color poster of
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when and where our chapel's going to be.
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So that's how I get the word out.
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At the racetrack, when I get to the racetrack.
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If I have posters to distribute, I'll do that like on a Thursday night or early
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Friday morning and just walk around and meet people and talk to people.
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A lot of the ministry is personal, relational ministry to see with people.
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It's neat.
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It's gratifying to be asked out in the paddock when I'm walking around
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to a pastor coming or Tim, I like Tim.
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Tim, it's worked for 69 years, so I prefer Tim.
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Tim, come and pray with us, and I love to do that.
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I'll walk on the grid, you know, and I'll just look at drivers and
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give them a thumbs up and say hi.
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You know, I don't want to be in anybody's way.
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I get it.
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They're in their office, they're working, and so I want to
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treat that in the right way.
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I pay attention at the race, and when the track goes silent, we either have
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a yellow flag or, worse, a red flag.
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And so at that point, I begin to focus my attention on the medical center.
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Sidebar, I'm going to try to see if my old Bearcat scanner that I took to NASCAR
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races, bring it here and let the fellas at the Racing Electronics trailer see
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if I can listen to the race control.
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And that way I'll know if there's someone being transported to the medical center.
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But pretty much now, you know, you can see the lights, you know, it's easy.
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And so I go to the medical center and see if, uh, I'm wanted or needed.
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I was there three times yesterday because we had people who were take the obligatory
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ride over to the medical center.
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So I do that.
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And again, it's just a ministry of presence and being with people and
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making myself and what I do available.
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You mentioned The advertising, you advertise, you put it in the app,
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which means the general audience can see it if they have access to the
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app, as well as the drivers, because you're also in the drivers meeting.
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Is there a separate service for the audience?
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Absolutely not.
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No, no, it's one service for, and in fact, on the bottom of the bill.
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poster.
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It says everyone is invited.
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It says it's a non denominational.
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I have a denominational affiliation.
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I prefer interdenominational service, but everybody knows what
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we mean by non denominational.
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And so, yeah, that everybody's invited.
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Everybody's invited.
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Going back to the medical center scenario that you painted there.
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Yeah.
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For those that are unfamiliar with the Christian faith, that's to be there in
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case you need to do last rites or laying on of hands or anything like that.
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Protestants don't do that, but we affirm two sacraments.
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In the Protestant Church, to only be real specific, in our Presbyterian Church.
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And it's, uh, the sacrament of baptism, whether it's an infant or an adult,
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and the sacrament of Eucharist, Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper,
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whatever language people want to use.
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That's it.
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So we don't have the unction at the end of life.
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We don't do that.
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You know, I'm not burning on that.
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I'm just saying, no, I just go to see if someone wants a prayer.
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My boss, Terry Borcheller, told me, I've used this line a hundred
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times, and it's absolutely true.
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He said, Tim, if you go to the medical center, and the drivers, or the
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driver, are, or is, okay, all you're going to find is an angry driver.
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And you know, he's about right.
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There's someone I saw yesterday, and I pulled out that story, and
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the driver, and I said, So, I called the driver by the driver's first
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name, and said, Are you angry?
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And the driver said, Well, yeah.
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But I'm angry at what happened.
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I'm angry at whatever this driver meant by that.
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But then there are some times that I see someone who, you know, I said,
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would you like to have a prayer?
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And so, yeah, absolutely.
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And so it's that driver and I praying that before family has
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come in and the medical people.
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It's very gratifying to see them fall silent.
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Sometimes they will bow their heads and close their eyes, not
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necessary, but they'll do that.
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But in other words, there is still some respect, even in this day
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and age of clergy difficulties and clergy getting sideways with
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the law and with the law of God.
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You know, there's still a wonderful respect that I see for.
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The church, not me, not Motorsports Ministry, not the Presbyterian
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Church, but the Church of Jesus Christ, and that's a good thing.
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So Motorsports Ministries itself is comprised of a collection of different
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clergy from different backgrounds as well?
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Yes and no.
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We have several different chaplains.
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Some are clergy and some are not.
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I'm one of the few.
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Motorsports Ministries was the brainchild of the late Richard Anderson.
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Richard died a few years ago.
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Terry Borcheller was a chaplain with Motorsports Ministries.
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And of course on the weekends he wore, to be cliche, he wore a cap and a helmet.
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You know, he was a chaplain and he was also out there, you know,
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battling it out on the racetrack.
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And when Richard died, we have a board of directors.
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The decision was to ask Terry, if Terry would consider if Terry would be the
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president of motorsports ministries.
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And he said, yes, of course, that's a lot more obligation, but Terry wasn't
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racing as much as he was in prior years.
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That's the Genesis and the current situation with motorsports ministries.
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And it's motorsports ministries address.
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Is Terry's house and then in Vero beach.
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So if there are other members of the clergy, priests, pastors, et cetera,
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that would be interested in doing what you did, you know, combining their
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passions, maybe they do have a background in motor sport or they're retired.
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They're looking for something new to do.
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Are there opportunities to join up with motor sports ministry?
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Eric, that's above my pay level.
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I don't know the answer to that.
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Certainly a call to or a communication with Terry Borcheller.
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So if people wanted to find out more about Motorsports Ministries, do you all
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have like a social media or a website or anything like that where someone
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could go to find more information?
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No, our website has been in the oven for many months now and again, I don't
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want to veer outside my lane, but no, but no, we have a Facebook presence
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and we don't do any other social media.
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Terry's racing this weekend.
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My boss.
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Yeah.
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Terry's driving the number 21, uh, super in GT four and
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his co driver is Nick Shanny.
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Yeah.
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Terry's out there.
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Not right this minute, but he's out there on the racetrack.
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So you talk about your love for motor sports, always downs
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to stock car and drag racing.
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Have you ever had any aspirations of being a driver or is it just
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for the love of cars in general?
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That's a good question.
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I had the privilege of doing skip barber racing school twice.
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I did the elementary school, what the beginning school.
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And I did the advanced school.
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I did both of them on the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway.
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Our first school, we were able to use the full 24 hour course.
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When I went back for the second school, we were doing it at the
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same time that NASCAR was testing.
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And so I can legitimately say, That, yeah, I was driving a race car on
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track the same time Jeff Gordon was.
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But of course, we're in the infield, just in the infield course, and I'd
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be driving in the infield, looking up on the high bank, and there
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goes number 24, the rainbow car.
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And so, uh, I like to tell people that when my Skid Barber experience
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was all said and done, my instructors told me not to quit my day job.
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No, I have no aspirations because I don't have the chops to do that.
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I don't have the gifts.
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I have the love, but I don't have the gifts.
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But I have to admit that after finishing the Skip Barber school and I live in
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Florida, so we don't have a lot of twisty roads, but today coming from the hotel
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to the racetrack in the past three days, doing that, I kind of look for apexes.
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But the thing is, you can't, you know, it's talking about staying in your lane.
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You kind of got to do that because there might be somebody coming the other way.
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But no, no aspirations, and I'm not a gearhead.
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I have a neat little Audi TT that has some aftermarket stuff under the hood.
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My wife bought that car for me and gave that car to me.
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It's an old Audi.
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It has been tweaked by a company called APR.
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You know APR?
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Okay, it's got some APR.
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It's got a stage 3 kit and, uh, I can say those things.
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Mine makes 396 horsepower.
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She is a demon.
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And it's wonderful.
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I'm an old man and someone said, have you taken it to the racetrack
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for one of those track days?
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No, because my car is 18 years old.
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It's a 2004 car and that means everything's 18 years old.
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To go to Sebring and to drive and to go down the Alderman Strait and no
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one's gonna be driving that without the accelerator matted and go down from 16 to
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17 and the race car drivers I've talked to say no one has ever gotten turn 17 right.
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Ever!
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Ever.
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I don't know if that's true or not, but imagine going into turn 17,
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it's a right hander and the front suspension give way on that old car.
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Who knows what could happen?
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You know, the car has no roll cage, no protective stuff.
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So no, no, that would not be wise on my part to do something like that.
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So long answer to a short question, but I tend to do that.
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So you mentioned before your boss, Terry is here.
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He's running as part of the SRA motor sports weekend.
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So he doesn't have you turning wrenches in the paddock, huh?
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Oh my word.
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No.
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No.
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Since you brought it up many times before, what's the connection to Audi?
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What gets you excited about that?
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How did you get into that?
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I know how I got into Audis growing up in a VW Porsche Audi
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family and watching Group B rally and things like that as a kid.
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So where's your connection?
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You know, that's a, that's a good question.
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When Audis were ruling the roost, Alan McNish, and Dindo Capello, and Mr.
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Lamont, Tom Christensen.
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Yeah, back in those days, I was kind of thinking, man, this car wins everything.
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You know, kind of like the Green Bay Packers won everything, and
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the Jeff Gordon wins everything.
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You know, there's sometimes a kind of animus that can be built up against that.
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But then, I don't know exactly what the deal was, except that we bought an Audi.
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We used to have just two door cars.
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And so we bought an adult car, and it was an Acura, and we sold that to our
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child, and bought an Audi, an A6, and it was a 2014, we didn't buy it new, but
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anyway, so I became an Audi owner, so that probably was it, and then there's
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this place in Port Charlotte, Florida, called Avenue Garage, they're the best
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in the world, and that's where we have had our cars serviced for 15 years, maybe
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20 years, and the owner, Kurt, amazing black Audi TT coupe, not a convertible.
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I'm not a convertible guy.
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And every time I'd go, I'd say, is that all broke down Audi for sale yet?
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And he would always say no.
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But this one time I went to get my car service.
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I asked him that he said, well, yeah.
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And so we talked about it.
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Long story short, he said, make an offer.
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I did.
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I didn't hear from him.
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So I figured he had decided not to do it because he had added all that APR stuff.
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It was kind of his baby.
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I didn't know that my wife had involved herself in the conversation.
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And so on Christmas day, 2012, we had guests at, you know, two
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or three o'clock or something.
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And so I helped clean up.
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I was doing dishes.
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And my wife went outside, and she came back in and she said, Tim,
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can you come show me how to turn the Christmas lights on outside?
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I remember saying, OK, sweetheart, I'll be right there.
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She remembers me saying something like, Can't you see I'm washing the dishes?
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She was probably right.
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Anyway, I went outside and in our driveway was that Audi with a big red bow, you
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know, like 18 inch bow on the windshield.
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She bought that car and gave it to me.
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You know, it's just, it just went from there.
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And then so I've watched races.
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I'm an Audi owner.
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So guess what?
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I'm an Audi and now Audi's, you know, is exiting.
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The sports car world, I understand.
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I'm not talking about the LMDH stuff and all that kind of thing.
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Supercars and whatever.
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I'm talking about GT cars.
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And of course, we don't have any.
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We have a few.
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There's Tom, you know, the car number 930.
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Big Audi found.
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I don't know why.
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We're members of this little Audi club in our part of the world.
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And go to Audi dealerships and get a swag bag and some information
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about new cars that are coming out.
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Okay, so if you could be a chaplain at any track, what would For the weekend, spend
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the weekend at any, any of these amazing tracks that we've got around the world.
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Where would you do service?
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You know, that's a wonderful question.
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I'm the most boring person in the world.
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Just ask my wife, we'll do something.
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She said, well, you're no fun.
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I said, sweetheart, I told you that 30 years ago.
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My needs are so easily met, but the bucket list, the real answer should
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be something like spa or Lamont or the Nürburgring, boy, that's it.
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I'm way too open with people.
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I have a fear of flying.
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There's not a chance in this world.
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I'd get on an airplane and fly across the ocean.
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And that's a horrible thing for a person of faith to admit shame on me.
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But flying, you know, my wife will say, you know, when it's coming up on a race
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weekend and I'm packing, she'll say, you excited about going, I'll say, no, I'm
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not excited about going or coming, but I'm excited as heck about being there.
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So, my need is, my bucket list need is met.
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You know what my bucket list would be?
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I'll tell you what it would be.
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It would be to have this room full of people for a chapel service.
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That's it right there.
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Irrespective of the venue, to have a room full of people for a chapel service.
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That would be the coolest thing.
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It's not about numbers, I don't mean to imply that, but it would be cool.
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Well, on that note, Pastor Tim, it has been an absolute pleasure to get This side
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of motor sports sometimes overlooked, but it's part of the larger ecosystem here.
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Sometimes, you know, the big Rue Goldberg machine that makes
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these weekends successful, right?
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There's so many different pieces and facets to the motor sport
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weekend, and you're one of those.
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And that's why I wanted to talk to you about your corner of the
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motor sports world, what you're doing with motor sports ministries.
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And we can't thank you enough for coming on the show.
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It's been a pleasure.
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An absolute pleasure.
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Thank you guys.
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This was fun.
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Thank you.
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For those of you still tuned into this episode, we want to first thank you for
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your continued support and let you know that in the second half of this episode,
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we have a live in service recording from one of Pastor Tim's Motorsports Ministries
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Sunday morning meetings for worship.
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Understanding that our listeners come from different faith communities
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and backgrounds, you have the option to stop listening now as
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you've already reviewed the majority of the content for this episode.
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But we also invite you to stick around and sample what a Sunday
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service is like trackside.
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Please note that the service will commence momentarily.
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Good
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morning.
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Good morning.
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Clock is not ticking yet.
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And so what I normally do, well, of course, it doesn't matter.
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Got a mic on.
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I sit out here with the folks, you know, if we had a room full of people.
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Morning.
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Remember the old churches that had that wooden rail across
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the, before the, the front pew?
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Remember that?
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That's called a privacy rail.
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And so people kind of liked it.
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Yeah.
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I thought it was a kneeling rail.
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Oh, no, no, no.
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It's, it's just, it's like a fence, like a wall, like a wall, yeah.
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And then behind that is a kneeling rail, of course, at every pew, at every row.
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You know, when we ordain and install people in our church as
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officers, if they've never been ordained before, they kneel and we
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lay on hands and pray over them.
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And I tell them, you know, if your doctor says you have no
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business kneeling, don't do it.
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But if you do want to kneel, we've got some people right here
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to help you get you back up.
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Non linear digital audio editing, right?
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Is that what it's called?
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So you can put it all, yeah.
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Remember the days before that when you had to actually, no, you guys are too young.
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People had to cut tape and, and, er, yeah.
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Yes it is.
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This may be us, but that's okay.
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Let's have a prayer.
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Gracious Lord.
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Thank you for this gorgeous day.
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Holy smokes.
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What happened overnight?
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It's uh, not chilly, but comparatively speaking it is but we thank you for that.
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What a breath of fresh air So be with the folks today.
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Oh God as we enjoy ourselves.
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We have people here who are spectators coming for fun And we
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have people whose business this is and everything in between.
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So I pray that you would protect anyone, oh God, who is here for whatever reason.
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May we have a good time, a good fellowship.
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May, uh, people meet other people whom they've not met before and
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begin at least an acquaintance.
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Who knows?
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Maybe even things like that will blossom into a friendship and that's a good thing.
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Oh, thank you for the opportunity to set apart a few minutes and
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have a Christian chapel service.
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Thank you, oh God.
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Thank you for the fellows, oh God, who are here to help promote GT racing
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and even this particular flavor of GT racing that we're doing this weekend.
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Bless us and keep us, oh Lord.
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Cause your face to smile on us.
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In Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.
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Are you guys going to stay for a communion?
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If you have time.
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So the answer is yes, if you have time.
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All right, then let's get her going.
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I wanted to do just a devotion that had relativity with respect to communion.
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There's a great story.
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Think back to Easter day, Jesus has been raised from the dead and people are
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excited and some people have actually seen him on all that sort of thing.
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Sometimes.
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We read scripture and just let the scripture speak to us without
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having to say a whole lot about it.
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I may say a thing or two, but listen to this wonderful
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story from the gospel of Luke.
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It's the story of the pilgrims on the road to Emmaus.
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And so here, listen to the word of the Lord.
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On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices
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they had prepared and went to the tomb.
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They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they
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didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus.
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While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed
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like lightning stood beside them.
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In their fright, the women bowed down with their faces to the ground,
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but the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead?
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He is not here.
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He is risen.
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Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee?
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The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified,
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and on the third day be raised again.
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Ah, then they remembered his words.
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When they came back from the tomb, they told all these
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things to the eleven disciples.
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Eleven?
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I thought there were twelve.
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Yeah, Judas is dead.
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That's exactly right.
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Judas is dead.
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It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and the others
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with him who told this to the apostles.
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But they, the apostles, didn't believe the women.
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Imagine that.
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Because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
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Imagine that.
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Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb.
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Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and
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he went away wondering to himself, what in the world has happened?
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Now, on that same day, this is still Easter day, uh, two of them,
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now we're not talking about two of Jesus eleven disciples, we're just
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talking about two other followers.
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Two were going to a village called Emmaus, which is about seven miles from Jerusalem.
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They're walking, seven miles, they've been in Jerusalem and
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they're walking home, okay?
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They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
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As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself
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came up and walked along with them.
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But they were kept from recognizing him.
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If Jesus were a Southern boy like him, he'd say, Hey, y'all wait up a minute.
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And so Jesus caught up with him and walked, but they didn't know who he was.
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Interestingly, the scripture says they were kept.
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From recognizing him, some will say that it was the Lord God who was keeping them
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from recognizing him until the right time.
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Some say just in their grief that sort of clouded their understanding and they were
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just so burdened with grief that they were kept from recognizing him because of that.
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I go with the former, frankly.
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Jesus asked them, what are you discussing as you walk along?
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And they stopped dead in their tracks, their faces downcast.
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One of them named Cleopas asked him, Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem
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who does not know the things that have happened in these last days?
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What things Jesus asked?
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Jesus is just, you know, setting the hook.
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What things Jesus asked?
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About Jesus of Nazareth, they replied.
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He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.
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The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death.
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And they crucified him.
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But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.
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And what is more, it's the third day since all of this took place.
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What's important about that?
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But Jesus had said, you know, destroy this temple and three days later.
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And so they knew something about three days, but it's been three days.
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It's Sunday, it's Easter Sunday.
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To their knowledge, nothing has happened because they weren't, you
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know, a part of the people in Jerusalem who were able to witness the Lord.
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They continue.
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In addition, some of our women amazed us.
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They went to the tomb early this morning, but didn't find his body.
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They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels
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who said that he was alive.
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Then some of our companions went to the tomb, and found it just as the women
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had said, but they did not find Jesus.
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The companions were, of course, Peter and John.
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And John talks about, in his gospel, about running toward the tomb.
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Peter set out first, and John followed, and John got to the tomb.
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Remember what he did?
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He bent down and he looked in.
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But Peter, the impetuous one, when he, finally got to the
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tomb, he went right inside.
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Right inside and looked around, you know, that's a, that's just a great story.
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Finally, after hearing all of this, Jesus said to them, how foolish
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you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
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Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?
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And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, in other words, all the way
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back through the Old Testament, Jesus explained to these two what was said in
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all the scriptures concerning himself.
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The seven miles are about up, and as they approached the village to which
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they were going, Jesus continued on as though he were going further.
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And so they said, Wait, stay with us, for it's nearly evening.
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The day is almost over.
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So Jesus went into their house to be with them.
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You know, these two men on the road to Emmaus, or two people on the road to
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Emmaus, we know one of them has a name, and it's Cleopas, and that's a male name.
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The other person's not named.
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A lot of people think these are two fellas.
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I don't.
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I think it's a husband and wife.
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Because they go into the house where they live.
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That's not to say that, you know, people of the same sex
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can't, you know, share a house.
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But I think they're husband and wife.
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Plus, they don't mention the other person's name.
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And of course, in this day and age, a woman was not the same status as a male.
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And so that for my money, Cleopas and his wife are the
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ones who were joined up by Jesus.
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And they said, come on inside.
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And Jesus went in with them.
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When he was at the table with them.
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So they did what you did in that part of the world and that you fed someone a meal.
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Yeah.
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Now listen to this.
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What's this sound like?
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When he was at table with them, they're just eating.
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He's at two new acquaintances house and they're just eating.
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He took bread.
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He gave thanks.
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He broke it and he began to give it to them.
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What's that sound like?
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Communion!
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Sounds exactly like the words that you hear, that we all hear, or some of
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us get to speak in a worship service, and we'll hear it in a few minutes.
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Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him.
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And then he disappeared from their sight.
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Interesting choice of words.
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It doesn't say that he got up and excused himself and said,
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See y'all later, I gotta split.
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He disappeared from their sight now remember this is the risen Lord, and
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it was an interesting existence There are books about all of this that won't
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try to bore you with anything, but Jesus has his heavenly body after the
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resurrection But of course he hung around because the ascension wasn't
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for 40 days and so for 40 days Jesus was walking around in this interesting
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brand new body that The scriptures say we will receive one of these days.
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Anyway, he disappeared.
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And they asked each other, Were not our hearts burning within us?
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You know, burning in the Bible sometimes is not a good thing.
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But sometimes it is a good thing.
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Like a passion.
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A good sort of passion.
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This is a good one.
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Were not our hearts burning within us?
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While he talked with us on the road and did what?
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And opened the scriptures to us.
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Weren't our hearts burning when we heard the voice of the Lord and
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when he opened the scriptures to us?
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They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem.
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How far is that?
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Seven miles they walked seven miles home.
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They had this amazing experience, which I would imagine was a fairly Energizing
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experience and they said we got to go we got to go back and and and be a part
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of all of this And share our story and hear the other people's stories there.
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They found the 11 And those with them assembled together and saying, it's true.
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The Lord Jesus has risen and he has appeared to Peter.
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Then the two told what had happened on the way to Emmaus and how Jesus was recognized
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by them when he broke bread with them.
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You know, that's a great story.
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Doesn't need a lot of attention and a lot of, you know, it doesn't
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need me to explain it at all.
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That's for darn sure.
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But there are some things that we can take out of that.
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It certainly sounds like when Jesus took bread and he blessed it and
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he broke it and he gave it to them.
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Certainly sounds like communion.
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It wasn't.
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It wasn't, it was just a meal, but maybe Luke, when he wrote
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that, you know, fashioned it in a way who, you know, remember Luke
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wasn't, wasn't, it was his gospel.
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He was writing this up, but he wasn't standing there watching it.
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So he had to hear about it from someone.
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And so maybe he heard about it from Cleopas and his wife, who knows.
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And then I think the salient part is when they said how our hearts burned
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within us, when we heard his words.
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And you know, right now today, and I'm not going to talk about other
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people's experiences, but I've never experienced the Lord speaking
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to me in an audible voice, like you're hearing my voice right now.
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But people have said that and they claim that and I affirm that God is
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God and God can do whatever God wants to do with respect to, you know,
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communicating with God's people.
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You know, typically when I say to someone, well, the Lord spoke to me, I'm talking
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about a feeling that I feel in my bosom.
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that I really feel the power and presence of God's spirit.
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The power and presence of the spirit of Christ are prodding me.
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I believe that with all my heart, but I've yet to hear a voice in my head.
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Like you said, when we first walked, yeah, Pookie walked in the door and
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she called my name or something, and she said she Was afraid that I might
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think that was a voice in my head.
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No, it wasn't.
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No, it wasn't.
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No, it wasn't.
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You know, this is one of the passages of scripture that people use to talk
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about a service of Christian worship.
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I come from the Presbyterian tradition, which is a little more
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liturgical than some other traditions.
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That's not a boast.
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It's not a lament.
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It's just the truth.
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And our worship service does have, dare I say it.
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Structure.
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In the Presbyterian Church, there's a structure to the worship service.
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And the structure is the gathering.
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When people gather in the name of the Lord, and you have things like
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a call to worship, and an opening hymn, and an opening prayer, and a
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confession of sin, and an assurance of pardon, that's the gathering.
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And then following the gathering is the proclamation of the word.
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When scripture is read and proclaimed, preached about.
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And then there's a response.
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And sometimes the response involves the celebration of the sacrament
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of Holy Communion, the celebration of the Eucharist, whatever
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word someone is familiar with.
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That's what we're talking about.
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If in a church tradition like in mine, we don't do communion every Sunday.
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And some traditions, if you're a Roman Catholic or Episcopalian or Luther's
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communion is every Sunday, and I'd love to have it every Sunday, but You know,
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you get some blowback because guess what?
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It takes a few minutes longer, et cetera, et cetera.
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After the proclaiming of the word, there's a response to the word.
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Sometimes it's communion.
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All the time, it's usually that's when we, uh, hear from people about what
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the mission work of our church is.
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You know, like a moment for mission.
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Sometimes you'll see that in the printed bulletin.
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And of course, the offering is received during that time as well.
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A response to God's word.
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And then we have a prayer and then we sing.
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And then the last part, some people call it the dismissal.
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I prefer the sending.
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Dismissal says we're done, y'all go home now.
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Sending says go and do.
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Go and put into practice, out there in the world, what you feel you should do as
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a result of our fellowship together and our time spent listening to the voice of
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Jesus, metaphorically or maybe literally, or certainly listening to God's word.
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And then we go home.
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So that's what I wanted to share this morning.
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Just a devotion that kind of has relates to the sacrament to communion.
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And I want us to focus on, do our hearts burn within us when we hear the voice of
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the Lord and when scripture is opened?
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to us.
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When I say open to us, I don't mean it has to be interpreted by some clergy person.
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I mean, when we read scripture on our own and do our own devotion, when we
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read God's word, does it speak to us?
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You know, that's what Jesus was talking about.
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And that's what those two pilgrims were talking about.
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Didn't our hearts burn within us when he spoke to us and when he opened
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the scriptures to us, that's the thought I want you to carry with you
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today, it would have been better to.
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Put this day before yesterday because it was so blasted hot outside.
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But anyway, if you get cold today, think about your heart burning within
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you because of the words of the Lord.
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Alrighty, let's have it now.
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Is everyone going to stay for communion?
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You're cordially invited.
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As I said.
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At the driver's meeting, in my tradition, anyone who is a believer
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is invited to the table of the Lord.
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And so, I know that different faith communities understand communion
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differently, and I certainly don't want this to be off putting to anyone, but
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it is a Protestant communion service, and anyone who is a believer is invited.
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And some of these words may be familiar to you.
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I don't know.
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I want you to know that, oh, let me show you something.
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Half a dozen years ago, church supply places came out with something new.
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And we clergy thought it was the silliest thing we had ever seen in our lives.
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And it's a kit.
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You ever seen one of these?
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It's a communion kit, and at the very top is a clear plastic thingy that
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you peel back and expose the wafer.
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And then when it's time for the cup, you peel this little purple tab back.
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Be careful because, you know, you can spill it.
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And that's the cup!
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We thought, who in the heck would ever use something like that?
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And don't you wish you had bought stock in that?
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But then along comes COVID 19 and churches bought them by the truckload because they
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really work nicely and they're sanitary.
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And I want you to know also that in my tradition and this morning, the beverage
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that's in there is in fact grape juice.
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And that's important because if someone came expecting grape juice and it was
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wine and he or she was in a situation in life where that's not a cool thing,
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that would not be a cool thing at all.
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Alright, and we're going to do a very short Eucharistic prayer.
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I don't know if you know the responses or not, but in a church when, when
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the person up front says, the Lord be with you and also thank you.
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Okay.
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How about do we go a little further and lift up your hearts?
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Oh, you are so good.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.
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So let's pray.
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Blessed are you, O Lord, our God.
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You come with power to save us, destroying the works of the wicked.
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So we praise you, joining the song of the Universal Church and the Heavenly
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Choir, when we say together, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might,
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heaven and earth are full of your glory.
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Hosanna in the highest.
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Blessed is Jesus Christ, our Savior.
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Jesus fed the hungry, cast out demons, healed the sick, liberated the oppressed,
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and extended your grace to all people.
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Remembering your goodness and grace, we offer ourselves to you with gratitude
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as we share this joyful feast.
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For great is the mystery of faith, that Christ has died, Christ is risen.
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Christ will come again.
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So pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and upon this bread and cup.
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Make us one in the body and blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Teach us truly to love our neighbors, honor every person,
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and tend to the needs of all.
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Through the Lord Jesus Christ, the unity of the Spirit, we bless you,
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God of glory, now and forever.
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So as our Savior has taught us, hear us as together we pray that familiar prayer.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Amen.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts
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as we forgive our debtors.
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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You've heard the words a hundred times a year on the night that Jesus was
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arrested and betrayed in scripture.
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We read that he took bread and after giving thanks to the
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father for it, he broke it and he distributed it to his disciples.
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And he said, this is my body given for you.
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This is my body broken for you.
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Take.
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And then we read that during that meal that they shared together,
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Jesus poured a brand new cup and gave it a brand new name.
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And he said, this is the cup of the new covenant sealed in my
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blood for the forgiveness of sins.
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All of you.
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Jesus said all of you drink of it for as long as you eat this bread and drink
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this cup You proclaim the Lord's death until he returns sisters and brothers the
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gifts of God for the people of God You may go ahead and take the bread in the
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cup when you're served We don't have to wait till everyone is served Be careful
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the little clear one on top you peel back and expose the wafer Like I mentioned the
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purple one you peel back and expose the cup Jesus said, I'm the bread of life.
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Whoever comes to me will never be hungry.
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Whoever trusts in me will never be thirsty.
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The bread of life.
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Amen.
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Jesus said, I'm the vine and you are the branches.
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But if you cut yourself off from me, then you can do nothing.
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The blood of Christ, the cup of salvation, and let's pray.
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God of glory in this meal that you have made for us, you
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have made us one with Christ.
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And with that great multitude of the faithful, those who hunger and thirst
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no more and worship night and day in your temple, we are also one with them.
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Lead us in the paths of righteousness and guide us to the springs of the water
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of life until we join the choir of the redeemed saying salvation belongs to
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our God who was seated on the throne and to the lamb, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Amen.
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We forgot to pray for Dominic Darkweather.
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Had a crash yesterday in the, in the GT4 race, yeah.
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Went into the tire wall and tore, in the Supra, that's right, that's right.
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And I saw him in the medical center yesterday.
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And then, uh, I saw, I said the three, Samantha Tan and Sada?
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Is that his name, the Ferrari guy?
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And I can't remember who was driving the 93, I don't know if it was her or him.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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And they were in and out of the care center.
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So, uh, y'all be careful out there.
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Don't let anyone hit you and don't hit anybody else.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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If we were in church, you would hear the person say, like they did in the
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New Testament times before they left that upper room, they did what together?
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They sang a hymn.
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We're not going to do that, okay?
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But go in peace, serve the Lord, enjoy your day, go fast, and stay safe.
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Again, I'm an outtie guy, I'm an outtie guy, so I should be non
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partial, you know, but go outtie.
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And you all stay safe out there, and God has blessed you with a
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cooler day, that's wonderful.
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It's only going to be 140 in the car today.
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No problem.
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God bless you all.
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And I'm Tim Stewart and I represent that which I believe.
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I am privileged to do it through Motorsports Ministry.
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Thank you all.
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Thank you for coming this morning.
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Thank you.
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This is wonderful.
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Yeah.
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And what time is it?
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8 24.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Take care, man.
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All right.
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Go Audi.
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