Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, the podcast that explores Christian faith and practice

from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thornton. I'm the lead pastor of

Virginia Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Jimmy Fowler, because they're

gonna pastor at Virginia Fellowship. Okay, we got to talk about it. I want to get

other people's opinions on this because you and I had an argument today. We

just don't comment because you're wrong so often. We had it we had it we had it we

had an argument and part of the argument was you made a statement. Are you doing

this? You made a statement. Every joke has an element of truth to it. Every joke that

a person tells every joke that I tell and clearly every joke that you tell by

your own intuition has an element of truth to it. And I said I categorically

reject that. I do not believe that that's the case. Now many of the jokes that

we tell do have elements of truth. That's one of the ways we deal with uncomfortable

situations or failures or whatever. But I do not think that every joke I do not

even think that most jokes that certainly that I tell have an element of truth in

it. For example, all right, go ahead. When you get done preaching. I will frequently

tell you great job. Good job. But sometimes I'll be like that sucked. That was terrible.

There is never and I go home and cry. Yeah. Well, because you're a baby. I'm trying to

toughen you up. But there is no element of it. Now that's one is and it's an easy

example because obviously. So I do not think that. So do you want to reconsider

your position on this or are you still saying like, no, I think like every joke

that you tell, there's truth in it. So like when you say like on the phone

today, you're like, no, no, no, you've only wasted like 10 minutes of my time.

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