hank you if you have your Bibles with you open them to Genesis 1. I I think I’m supposed to get you out of here by nine don’t don’t think don’t think that’s going to happen but uh as you open the Genesis chapter one tell you a story again we’ve been in in Lusaka for the last seven years and went to help start the African Christian University and and a story that just sort of brought home to me what that was all about and what it was going to be about occurred not long after we had been there we’ve been there I guess about a year and and we we got a dog and we we got a
Boerboel now for those who don’t know uh bourbals were were one of two Southern African breeds that were bred to hunt lions and the verbals that the Dutch Southern African farmers were called boers the Boerboel is The Boar’s dog and uh so the warbles would protect the farm and protect cattle against Lions they’re big dogs they’re they’re they’re they’re South African Mastiffs and and they’re and and they are they’re they’re just really big Fierce dogs who ain’t scared of nothing they’ll defend you against man or beast and your kids can ride them and they
won’t mess with the kids as long as your kid’s not a lion just wonderful dogs and so our our boerble that we had then as he was a puppy and and um his name is Atticus Finch so I was I was training Atticus and we’d gotten to a point in this training where we needed sort of increase distractions so we lived across the street from this this restaurant that had a big field out in front of it and it was a roundabout and cars riding by all the time so I would take him over there on a really long lead and just worked through some of his commands
