Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I'm going to be honest. I just recorded this podcast and I'm editing it and I don't know where the music is. I don't know where the intro music is. I can't find it. I can't find it anywhere on my computer. I've tried for 10 minutes and I'm going nuts. So we're doing no intro music on today's podcast. It's also my son's fifth birthday. So I'm done. I can't look anymore. So I'm leaving. No intro music.

Enjoy the show. No outro music either. So it's just going to end very abruptly. Apologies.

I'll look for it this weekend. I want to play this clip of J.D. Vance at CPAC yesterday.

And I want to break down all the wonderful things that it's just two minutes,

but there's a handful of really deep and profound themes that I want to touch on.

So this isn't quite the gospel message.

I think I said that on the radio and I was mistaken a bit.

It's not quite the gospel message.

The gospel message has to include that you are a sinner who needs to be saved.

All people have sinned and are separated from God and the penalty for sin is death.

You need to be saved.

But good news.

That's the bad news.

You're a sinner.

But the good news is that Jesus is the path to salvation. Believe in him, believe he's the son of God, make him Lord of your life. That's the good news. Then you get baptized. That's the gospel message. JD didn't quite say that, but that's okay. I'm sure he would if he gave him the opportunity. This is the closest, though, I've ever heard a vice president or president ever talk.

I've never heard Mike Pence talk about it. It is wonderful to have a vice president

who has a Christian worldview. Now, he's not going to save us. He's not, right? J.D.'s

our savior and the government's not going to be. It never should be.

But it still should be encouraging. Nonetheless, here is what he said. I'll play the whole thing. And then we'll break down the main points.

First is, I believe, like the fundamental tenet of the Christian.

First is, I believe, like, the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, it's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that.

I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the son of God became man, he died, and he raised himself from the dead.

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