Welcome to Culture and Christianity.

I am delighted to be able to introduce you to David Nasser, my guest today.

Iran's in the news.

If you've missed that, you have been in a cave somewhere for a few days.

David was born there. Welcome to culture and

Christianity. Let's start there. It's honor to be with you. Dr. Jackson, thanks for having.

And you serve in a church in Murfreesboro these days. I do. I'm a new vision. We are neighbors and

fellow, we are co-laborers. We are. And I meet people all the time. When these are your neck of the woods, and this is where you call home, I meet people all the time that have been influenced by you. And there's a tremendous way. And so grateful for you. And it's good to have you as a neighbor. I mean, new vision loves your church. And I know it's likewise. And Pastor Brady speaks so highly of you. Man, yeah, thankful for you.

We need every good church.

Amen. We need each other. You know, there was a time we may have thought we were competitors, but we can't live in that world anymore. Absolutely. We need one another. I want to start with just the basics. You were born in Iran to get the big rock idea on the table. Right. And so, and now you're a pastor at a church at Murphysboro, Tennessee.

There has to be a God story. rock idea on the table. Right. And so, and now you're a pastor at a church in Murphysboro, Tennessee.

There has to be a God story in there somewhere. Absolutely. I was a Shiite Muslim and grew up in Iran until I was nine years old. And in 1979, when I was nine, the Iranian revolution happened.

And the Itaulah Khomeini and the zealots

basically took over our country. Iran was a monarchy, and it became at that moment a theocracy.

And when that happened, I was this kid who was watching the whole thing. The difference in a

monarchy and a theocracy. Some of the people listening won't understand that distinction.

Absolutely. We had a king that reigned and ruled.

The shaw.

Yes, sir. And so it actually was, you know, a monarchy in the sense that he had all power.

And he actually governed, you know. And so unlike what we see in the Queen of England, for example, or the King of England, where they have a position with them not really governing on the day-to-day trenches of life.

And that's what we had.

And then when a theocracy took over, it became a governance of religion.

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