Hi everyone, welcome to the Passion and Purpose Podcast. It's Louis Giglio and I'm so excited

about the conversation that we're going to have today with a new friend of mine, relatively

new in the last few years. Someone who's reputation arrived to me a few years ago repeatedly from the 20-somethings and 30-somethings

that I hang out with and work around. And finally got the chance to meet him. And just as advertised,

I was blown away. And the thing that struck me the most about him was he has his own rhythm.

And I like that.

I'm a connoisseur of good communicating and preaching.

And I don't know, there was something about the tone, the content, the person, the whole situation that just felt fresh to me and knew.

And then got a chance to meet him,

hang out, got a chance to know his wife, and Shelly and I've gotten a chance to be around them some, and it's been really, really fantastic.

So please welcome, if you would, the pastor of Harris Creek in Waco, Texas, the author of

Why Do I Do What I Don't Want to Do?

Maybe the most universal title in all of literature right now.

Exactly.

But welcome Jonathan Picluta to the Passion and Purpose Podcasts.

I'm so glad to have you on today, pumped.

It's so great to be on and I'm going to have the most difficult time, not just celebrating all the things about you that I have celebrated for years and years in years from afar.

And doing ministry together, if I can even be so bold as to say that is quite literally a dream come true. I mean, literally.

And so I am humbled to be on. I'm encouraged to be on and just so thankful for you.

Well, the feeling is mutual and I have a left turn in this podcast, something we've really

never done in a passion and purpose podcast. But I've got an item here, JP, that I'd like to get in view of all

the folks who are being able to watch the podcast. And if you're listening, I'm so sorry about

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