Hey everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. I'm doing something

today that I love to do, and that is interview pastors who know what time it is politically.

Scott Bottoms is joining me today on the show. He is running for governor in the great state of

Colorado. And we're going to hit on some of the issues of the day. We're going to be talking about

Venezuela. We're going to talk about human trafficking the issues of the day. We're going to be talking about Venezuela.

We're going to talk about human trafficking.

But more than that, I really want to focus our attention on why God's people should engage in politics.

It matters more now than it ever has.

And I think we're going to make a good case for it today.

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I think you're going to be encouraged. Thank you guys for listening today. I hope you're going to share this,

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he may or may not be a Christian nationalist. We're going to talk about that a little bit today.

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without further ado, I'm really excited to have Dr. Scott Bottoms here. He currently serves as a representative

for the Colorado House District 15 in El Paso County. He's in his second term. He's also, and this is what makes me so excited, the lead pastor of church at Briargate in Colorado Springs, where I have attended in the short time that I lived in the springs. And he's been there for 13 years prior to this role. He served in churches all across Colorado. He holds a bachelor's in church ministries, a whole bunch of other stuff I'm not going to read to you, except for the fact I want to highlight that he's a proud U.S. Navy veteran, served eight years active duty. Dr. Scott, welcome to the show. Welcome to the Northwest. Yeah, thank you. I love being here. Just a small correction, I was in the Navy, but I served most of that reserves, not active duty. Not active. Do you need to fix it? I do need to fix it. Is that on my stuff? I mean, they sent it to me and I don't think we made it up. So, yeah. Pretty great, though. You've been married to your wife for 35 years? 35 years? Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated 35 years. That's fabulous. So you got married in 90? We got married in 90. We were both 20 years old. I had also just got in ministry before that. I'd been a youth pastor for about three or four months. And then we get married because I got a full-time job. I think you're like right behind me. I got married in 89. 89. So when you said 35 years, I was like, I bet that's 90.

Yeah, I was just a kid in 89. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we were 20 years old. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good age to get married. I was just talking to a pastor friend of mine, Pastor Sean out of battleground, and he was saying that his daughter is thinking about getting married. And he was like, dude, I say get married young.

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