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So we are here today with a very, very special and unique guest, and someone who is long overdue as a guest of our East Plano Islamic Center.

Because he is one of the most prominent pastors and evangelical preachers in all of America, and he's also our neighbor here in Dallas.

He's somebody who's lived here for so many years, so we have long been wanting to invite Pastor Bob Roberts.

So we're very honored that he's come here and spent some of his gracious evening to come and spend some time with us.

Pastor Bob does not really need a long introduction.

He'll Google his name, you'll find many, many web pages, but he started a church here in the Dallas area called Northward Church in the Keller District, and it's grown to be many different branches.

He has an international resume working with so many countries since the early 90s.

He was involved with the Vietnamese government and humanitarian effort over there, and then in Afghanistan as well, he was cooperating with humanitarian aid and got to know some of the warlords.

He might tell us some of the stories over there over that. So over the course of the last 30, 40 years, he's lived a very, very interesting life, and he's founded a organization called Multi-Faith Neighbors Network, which he will tell you more about.

But Pastor Bob, welcome to our East Plano Islamic Center.

Thank you, Yasir. I'm excited to be here. Thanks for having me.

It's our pleasure, and we wanted to keep it short because it is a week day, I know, but he's promised to come again, and hopefully maybe even I'll visit his community as well.

This is the beginning of something far more fruitful, but I wanted to begin with some very frank questions, Pastor Bob.

First question, for a lot of us in this audience, we don't know much about evangelicals, and to be very honest, and I'm being very blunt with you, the term sometimes is a bit frightful for us because of the experiences we've had.

So can you explain who the evangelicals are and what makes them different from other branches of Christianity?

Well, first of all, I want to apologize to you that the word evangelical frightens you.

I'm sorry about it, it scares me, too. And so one of the things that I would say is, the evangelical is the most conservative Christian.

Now, what that means is they should be the most loving.

Sadly, for whatever reason, the more conservative some people are, the angrier they get, the harsher they are.

We have that problem in Christianity. So you've got your Catholics, which the Pope is the leader of the Catholics, I've met him, I've high regard for him.

And then you've got your Protestants, and we don't believe there should be a Pope. We go straight to God when we pray. No priests like that.

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