Satur-deja Vu

There was no Deja Vu last week and this post is already late but I’m gonna keep trying. Maybe I should take the summer off and regroup but I know if I stop I will never start again. We’re gonna push through it so here we go.

Online quiz is sus – I clicked on one of those stupid quizzes that show up in Facebook newsfeeds. It was Bible trivia and not asking for my pet’s name or the street I grew up on. (If you don’t know why you should not respond to those kinds of questions, ask me in the comments.) I think I scored 37 correct out of 40. One question I legit got wrong; looked it up, I was mistaken. One question I didn’t like the answers so I would deem that question and answer confusing. Then there’s the question about plagues in Egypt. The correct answer is 10. I picked C: 10. According to the graphic above, C is wrong and the correct answer is D. Then the explanation goes into why 10 is correct. And that’s why I got 37 responses correct and not 38.

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Satur-deja Vu

Pastor, author Tony EvansI wrote Tuesday morning that I was in Augusta, GA for the bicentennial meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention. There had already been a missionary sending service on Sunday evening, a preaching conference Monday afternoon and the first session of convention meetings Monday evening. The Tuesday afternoon session features the convention sermon each year, brought this year by pastor, author, orator and radio/television host Tony Evans from Dallas, Texas. I don’t know the official seating capacity of Warren Baptist Church in Augusta but the attendance Tuesday afternoon exceeded that. I did have a seat in the sanctuary, in a row of chairs put out for the overflow crowd. The room was stuffed and I retreated to the lobby where I found a much more comfortable chair parked in front of a flat screen. A small group of us watched together and listened in to the remote broadcast and each time the crowd in the room broke into applause we could hear that for real. I did step into the back of the sanctuary to take part in the standing ovation at the very end. Anyone can stream individual sessions or the entire 3 day meeting from the GBC website.

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