Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I am super pumped about today's interview with Jonathan

Pocluda, JP. A lot of you guys probably know him because maybe you followed the porch.

That was the ministry that he was the head of when he was a pastor out of Dallas. And now

he pastors a church in Waco and he's just an incredible pastor, an incredible communicator.

He focuses especially on dating and relationships and singleness and helps us navigate that or

helps single people and dating people navigate that with the gospel. And so today that's exactly

what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about dating apps. We're going to talk about

purity culture. We're going to talk about what the church in the world get right and wrong about

dating and how and how you can do it in a way that is glorifying to God. And so I'm just super

excited for you to hear from him. He is an awesome person that has personally had a big impact on

on me. I attended the church that he was the the singles pastor of several years ago when I was

in college and he's just an amazing dynamic communicator of the gospel who God used in my own life

to strengthen my own faith and my understanding and love for scripture. And so I'm just very excited

if you don't know who he is to introduce you to him. So without further ado, here is JP.

JP, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell everyone who may not know who you are and what

you do? Yes, I'm Jonathan Pecluda, JP for short. And I guess for 12 years, I worked at a church

in Dallas called Watermark and let a ministry call the porch to young adults inside the privilege

of watching that ministry grow from about 150 people to 4,000 there, but really 10,000 watching 20

campuses around the country and and then another large online audience. And that was just God showing

off. And then two years ago we left Dallas to pastor a church, a pastor a church here in Waco,

Texas. And so 145 year old Baptist church that we've kind of taken the baton on and continue

into building kingdom and advance the gospel. You talk a lot and have talked a lot for as long as

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