Lisa Harper
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And they'd be like, oh, yeah, we'll let the kids out of school.
And all the kids would come in at the first time I spoke.
Well, no, they wanted to get out of class.
And so there'd be like 1,500 kids, and I'd be like, oh, my heavens, to Betsy.
This is way TMI for Duck Dynasty.
You don't have as much estrogen on this often.
But I got so nervous because McGavock High School, this crazy, wonderful high school here in kind of urban Nashville, about 1,500 kids.
And I thought, I have no idea what to start out with because they don't want to hear some Bible teacher.
They wanted to get out of class.
And so the only thing I could think was, I need to start with a prayer.
And while I pray, there was just one little microphone on the stage.
While I pray, I just hope the Holy Spirit will give me something.
I know I've got to start with a story.
Well, as I started to pray, I didn't know this, but evidently when I get nervous, there's a major nerve up the back of my leg that starts to...
quake violently so my backside was quivering and you could i mean it sounded like my whole voice was quivering like i was crying well so the kids all stopped because they're like who is this chick who's crying and i realized i've got about 30 seconds and i had this crazy story being gored by a bull so i went from where they thought i was crying to telling the story of being attacked by a
How I segued in the gospel, I have no idea.
I don't know if he wants credit for it.
But watching all these kids who had come to get out of Christ kind of have an encounter with Jesus in the middle of the day, I thought, man, if I get to do this for the rest of my life, I'll walk to see Jesus.
people encounter the love of Jesus.
So that's kind of how it started.