Welcome to another edition of the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. I have a very special guest with me today.

We're going to talk about what I think is one of the most interesting and it is the story in my mind for this audience you're familiar with what we talk about as far as the social justice movement especially in Christianity but broadly speaking

this this story that I'm about to tell to you

and I'm gonna get the first-hand source.

We got Juan Riesco with us, he's gonna tell us about it.

This story is, it needs to be told in a way that we can't do justice through on this interview, but it hits the Black Lives Matter movement. The gospel, you know, the Christian social justice stuff. I mean it's all in this story and I just

want to welcome Juan Riesco. Juan, thank you so much for being willing to tell this amazing story.

Hey brother, to God be the glory man.

Thank you for having me.

Juan, we talked on the phone a few days ago and I was actually pretty impressed.

I had read about your story, the story of Nini's Delhi in Chicago months ago.

And I mentioned it on one of the podcasts, some of the audience may remember, and it's just, it blew my mind to read about this business owner who was a Christian, but also the son of immigrants, the saved out of a homosexual lifestyle, just, you know, God, God did a work in you, and then to have this highly rated restaurant

destroyed by the Black Lives Matter movement

for you to be called the names you were called.

I just thought to myself,

this story is, this is what's going on. This is, this encapsulates

2020. And if Christians aren't paying attention, if we don't take heed of the warning that the story gives to us,

we're gonna be in trouble.

So I wanna start kind of at the beginning, Juan.

Tell us a little bit about yourself before what happened

a few months ago.

Tell us about your conversion.

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