24tv_6The following happens between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

…Someone that sounded very familiar to me. You could tell the individual was uptight about their situation. The message itself was a little cryptic. Obviously his captors wouldn’t let him identify himself on my answering machine. These were the clues, however, that he left in his message:

  • I’d run 26 miles in your shoes, but I couldn’t in mine.
  • I don’t have to play doctor with my wife.
  • The Georgia Bulldogs are a bunch of pansies.
  • No comment.
  • My name rhymes with "Hairy Global."

Hmmm… Who could it be? Larry Strobel? Perry Noble? Very Mobile? Terry I’d-continue-naming-names-but-nothing-else-rhymes-with-“global.”

Emily: “What did you just say?”

Tony: “Nothing else rhymes with global.”

Emily: “No, before that.”

Tony: “Very mobile…like Notre Dame’s quarterback and Heisman candidate, Brady Quinn. Go Irish!”

Emily: “No, before that.”

Tony: “Perry Noble? Perry Noble!!!”

Then it struck me. Washington, D.C. Granger, Indiana. Anderson, South Carolina. It’s the triangle of death. They have Perry too. Three of our keynote speakers for the Innovative Church Conference are hostages. What am I going to do?

There was no time to ponder the implications of this predicament. It was time to activate the protocol. That meant I needed to prepare Jacob for his mission…

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