Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxis.

Folks, it's the Eric Mataxis show.

I've got a big surprise for you.

Is the surprise that I'm in a hotel room in Dallas? No, that's not the surprise. The big surprise is my guest right now, Sean Foyt, F-E-U-C-H-T-F-T-Foyt. Sean Foyt. Welcome to this program. Hey, thanks so much for having me. Honored to be here.

You need to get a haircut, my friend. Okay. Jesus can never want here. What's wrong with you?

I'm so excited to meet you. There are many people who know you and what you've been doing,

and there are many people who don't. And so I'm excited for both of those groups. Why don't you tell my audience, if you can,

what you've been doing, who you are, and why you and I are doing something together in New York

City on July 3rd. I am so excited. I get to be a part of that because I'm a New Yorker.

But tell my audience, Sean, what you do. Well, for probably the last 20 years, I've been really focused as

more of a missionary to some of the hardest and darkest places in the world, including

Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, a lot of these places the Lord sent us into. Well,

fast forward to when COVID happened, America just erupted, you know, not only in a tyrannical

government that was, you know, suppressing our rights, not allowing the church to gather,

but also, you know, you have

this unrest, the rioting, all the crazy stuff. And we really felt like the Lord had called

our assignment in that season to America. So we started an accidental movement,

meaning that we didn't have this grandiose plan or strategy. We just really, it was July 9th, it was the day after the governor of California,

Gavin Newsom said, you can't sing in church any longer, which was so outrageous to me.

Not really the fact that he said that because he's crazy,

but the fact that people were actually abiding by that, that people were complying. That's, that's kind of the key, isn't it? Like anybody can say any crazy thing, but when people go, oh, okay, that's when the trouble starts. Yeah, and that's when I started to realize, okay, this is wild. And not only is it unconstitutional it's unbiblical goes against everything we believe

and i've spent enough time with the persecuted underground church you know to to where when that was

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