Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show and your host, at least for the next 30 minutes, I think.

We'll see.

Today's guest, we have Joe Heschmeier.

We're talking about the early church.

So if you have a question about the early church, anything, at least about the first 200 years, because I know Joe really specializes on those first 200 years.

Give us a call 8883-187-884. That's AAA31-Truth. Ask your question to Joe. Joe, it's cool to be on here with you. How's it going? How's your online debates going? It's going great. I want to give a shout out to you because you're covering for Sy. He can't be expected to work a full two hours a day, so he'll, you know, start from home a half an hour from now. Look. I, you know, just want to he's got some comfy chairs, you know, he just got some comfy chairs in his office. Usually we had to, you know, really pull him out of his office from his deep nap in order to get him to do the show.

But, you know, today he just decided to work from home so we can't wake him up. Sometimes he's more pulled out of the nap than others, apparently, you know. Yeah, well, you know, it is what is. Actually, he's out getting, I think, I think he's that I could say, a new car. So he's at the dealing with those. like working 90 minutes a day and getting a new car. This is not

getting better. I'm just saying, I hope we can have a lot of people call in to just talk about side living high on the hog. You don't have to tell him I primed you for it. He can be surprised. We'll see if you listen to the first part of the show. I asked him to take pictures of the dealership because I told him I've never been inside of a Lamborghini dealership. So make sure you get those nice pictures because it's probably the most of all I'm going to see of it. So it pays good to work two hours or in this case 90 minutes. I hope people know the Lambo part is a joke. Very little of the rest is. I mean, it kind of is.

All right. Well, you got a question for Joe 8883187-884. Joe, I got to say, I absolutely

love your book. This is one of my favorites that we've printed here at Catholic Answers.

Now, you go through quite a, quite a few different things within your book. You cover baptism, you go through quite a few different things within your book.

You cover baptism, you cover, you know, the hierarchy of the church.

One of the things that I've, whenever I've had conversations with Protestants that they tend to bring up

those that don't believe in a hierarchy is they, they say that the early church actually never taught or never believed in an

apostolic succession. So my question to you is, where's the evidence in the early church that we

have an apostolic succession? Yeah. So you see the importance of having some kind of succession

in the New Testament itself. You can see that in Acts

1 when they choose a replacement for Judas as an apostle with Matthias. You also see it in places

like 2 Timothy 2 versus 1 to 2. St. Paul says to Timothy, you then my son, being strong in the

grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you've heard from me before many witnesses

entrust a faithful men who'll be able to teach others also.

So think about the kind of generations there.

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