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Tonight we all arrived in Orlando, which gave me the additional thrill of having some of our staff meet my wonderful parents who had driven me from Stuart. Mom treated the whole thing like she was leaving me at college, saying she’d help me get “settled in” in the room before they left. Dad was low-key, despite threats to assure everyone who would listen that “he had all the attributes of a dog, save that of loyalty.”
The Welcome Address was by Dr. Trudy Kibbe Reed, President of Bethune-Cookman University. I was struck by her notion that we are all “authenticated” by someone. Who is “authenticating” our people? Gangs, materialism, media? Clearly the church should be authenticating in the name of Jesus…isn’t that part of what our baptism is about? Learning who we are in Christ and then, as a servant of the Servant, learning how we are supposed to live?
I’m excited about what tomorrow may bring.
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