Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, the podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Jayne Father, Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, you can't run from me. I try. I know.

You're trying to run and hide, trying to distance yourself from you, create some distance.

You know, man, I will find my man.

I, I like that extra girlfriend.

You can't take her.

Oh, I won't be ignored.

I left the state.

I did everything I could.

You can find a boiled rabbit in your, in your pot on your stove when you get home. And how did you, how did you get this phone number, though? That's the question I had. Oh, how did you get my new number? Yeah, I had to call. I had to make a few calls. Yeah, I had to make a few calls and cash in a few favors. And, yeah, yeah. And actually, they wouldn't give me the number. They just dialed it on their phone. I'm using their phone. So I still don't know. Oh, okay. Well, I'm glad to hear that. All right, so I'm safe for the future, then. I got a little bit of time left, a little bit of distance. All right, so not, listen, first of all, let me just say,

because we haven't been able to see each other a whole lot, you know,

because of your, quote, you know, sickness, end quote, whatever.

But I wanted to tell you, and I really wanted to tell you on Sunday,

the 10th. Okay. That you're a good pastor and i appreciate you i'm thankful for you

you know i've got i've got other pastors here at the church it's you and and jimmy and jeff and

and pat and well i am i am jimmy so thank you and jimmy no yeah well yeah i see the thing is I can't keep all of the names straight, who belongs to who. So I kind of go through the list. But I'm just saying, like, I got lots of pastors, and I'm grateful for them all. But then I'm very grateful for you. You are a great friend. You are a great pastor. And I appreciate you. All right. Here we go. Pastor appreciation months. Here we go. Oh, I thought you're about to let me go. No, no. Are you kidding me? I thought this was a, hey man, it's time for your resignation. No, no, because then no one would do your stuff. So that would be bad. Yeah, that would be terrible. No, I'm not doing that. You're not going to take care of it? Do you think I could? There you go. You know, I'm not answered. Yeah, I'm not answering that question. I have too much respect for you. Okay, okay. Well, man, thanks for holding down the, uh, thanks for holding the podcast ship, man.

Wait, I'm sorry, the podcast, what?

The podcast, what?

Ship.

You held down the podcast ship or the fort.

What do you think?

You held down the fort.

The fort is easier to understand.

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