Ep 401 | Joy in Jail & Peace Through Persecution | Guest: Pastor James Coates

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today we're excited to speak with Pastor James Coates, who thankfully has been released from jail after refusing to comply with Canada's COVID-19 guidelines. Authorities in Edmonton, Alberta, demanded that Pastor Coates stop holding his church service at full capacity, but he found that to be in violation of his duty to God and the church congregation. We'll talk about what it was like for Pastor Coates in jail, the events leading up to his imprisonment, and the next steps for Grace Life Church, which now has a chain-link fence surrounding it to prevent services from being held. --- Today's Sponsor: Fast Growing Trees: Skip the big box stores and head to Fast Growing Trees dot com - the WORLD’S LARGEST ONLINE NURSERY. Whether you’re looking for shade, privacy, fruit trees, or just added color for your yard, every plant is shipped with a well-developed root system - ready to explode with new growth. Now through June 30th go to FastGrowingTrees.com/ALLIE for 15% off. --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New Year, new me. Nah. I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things I love. Like enjoying
0:07.7	a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My only resolution is
0:14.8	to enjoy more of what I love. Like switching up my usual with oat, soy, almond or coconut.
0:22.0	All delicious non-dairy alternatives available at Starbucks. For no extra charge. While stocks
0:27.9	last subject to availability.
0:39.3	Hey guys, welcome to your late ball. Happy Monday. So today is the first day the
0:45.3	true listening to this of my maternity leave 12 weeks pre-recorded episodes, lots of interviews,
0:51.1	lots of Q&As answering some of your controversial questions, a couple hot topics like KJV onlyism and
0:59.9	the death penalty. All those will be coming up today. However, we are talking to Pastor James
1:05.7	Coates of Grace Life Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I talked to his wife, Aaron Coates,
1:11.6	a couple weeks ago. This, you probably remember that interview. This pastor was jailed in Alberta for
1:18.2	continuing to preach the gospel in person openly to his church and refusing to limit his congregation
1:27.6	to the capacity that the health officials in that area were telling him that he had a limited
1:34.6	to. So he ended up going to jail. Well, he got out of jail. Thankfully, there was a lot of back and
1:40.0	forth there where there was a trial and we didn't know what was going to happen. They tried to
1:46.4	appeal it. And during that time, there were two child sex predators that were released in the same
1:53.7	area without conditions that Edmonton police said are probably going to recommit their crimes.
1:59.4	And so because of that hypocrisy, because of what seemed like a dystopian persecution against
2:04.6	a man who simply allowed people to come to his church and whatever numbers they wanted to come,
2:09.4	they wanted to wear a mask distance, whatever. There was a lot of uproar in the United States about
2:14.2	that. There's a lot of uproar everywhere about that saying, this is clear bias from the government.
2:20.1	And yes, this is a form of persecution. No one saying it. It's the same kind of persecution as
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