Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, the podcast that explores Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective.

My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jimmy Father, Executive Pastor at Redeemer 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,

which isn't uncommon, because you're wrong so often.

We had it, we had an argument.

And part of the argument was you made the statement.

Are you doing this?

You made the 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 admission,

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, 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 it would 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 tough you up.

But there is no element.

And now that's one example. 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.

Like, go ahead.

Like, go ahead. 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. Like, go ahead. Like, go ahead and tell me more. So I'm supposed to say like, wow, he actually feels that I have wasted his time to some degree. Why are you doing this here? I'm just asking. I want, I want, I want to, I thought, why are we doing this? Because, well, you know, like we asked,

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