Legacy Arena in Birmingham is currently filled with about 13,000 people for the three-day Motion student conference that began Thursday.
Zoe Church Pastor Chad Veach of Los Angeles, who officiated the wedding of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker last year and has had celebrities such as actor Chris Pratt attend his church, was the speaker on Friday morning.
“This is the coolest thing going on in America today,” Veach told the Motion audience. “This is the coolest thing going on in the whole country.”
Veach asked how many people were good at memorizing song lyrics and how many “Swifties” memorized all the lyrics to Taylor Swift songs. “What if you put the same energy into memorizing scripture as you do in memorizing songs?” he said.
Veach said as a teen he had his walls covered with Michael Jordan posters and was a fanatical basketball fan. “I don’t want us to be…
