Alan Graham

But I end up in this retreat for 30 hours of hand-holding and bromance, hugging it out, and had a pretty powerful experience that –

really just led me to going, God, what do you want me to do?

I mean, I wasn't asking for anything big.

It's just, you know, what are the little things that I can go out there and do?

And it was through that and a series of things that led to the founding and then ultimately the founding of the community.

You know, out of the retreat, the idea was fundamentally to –

What can I do at church?

I can become a lector.

My wife can go do the nursery.

We get our kids involved in the thing.

The intellectual relationship that I had with Jesus

because there was an intellectual side to this, during that retreat just kind of dropped a floor into the depths of the cave of my heart.

And so there was a different relationship that I was experiencing with Christ.

Well,

Well, look, there are elements of the Christian faith that would, you know, first begin with, you know, that the angel of the Lord came to a poor Jewish 14-year-old little girl and impregnated her with the power of the Holy Spirit.

That's a weird thought that you got to buy into.

From that, the Son of God is going to be born, a virgin birth.

He's going to be on this earth for a period of time, and then he's going to end up being executed.

And he's going to rise from the dead, descend into hell, then ascend into heaven.

But prior to that, he hangs out for another 40 days with his brothers.