Hello, all listeners and viewers. I know I spend a lot of time at the beginning of this video greeting all the saints. I thought for awhile that maybe it should be edited (it goes on for about nine minutes), but now I think it's important because all the saints are important and it is good to call them out as such. I love the saints. I love all of you.
Thus, I like what Rodney did at the beginning when he ran the text of Paul at the end of Romans, in chapter 16, listing all the saints—greeting all the saints. And then Rodney showed a clip from the SC conference, showing me among the saints (literally) during the Q & A session. That was brilliant.
It is difficult to live mild and quiet lives in this era. Slow, quiet, and simple are rare treasures in an eon where fast, loud, and complicated are touted as progress. There are three things I really despise in this world: 1) fast, 2) loud, and 3) complicated.
Is this why I bicycled across the United States alone in 1980? Damn straight. I haven't changed. This is my default setting whether I'm riding a bicycle across a continent or not, and it carries over into the way I teach the Word of God. How do I teach the Word of God? Slow, quiet, and simple.
Thanks again to Rodney Paris for his creative visual interpretations of my audio presentation, presented here to an ecclesia of about 60 saints in Willard, OH, in 1998.
Grace and peace to you all from the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,
Martin
