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The Babylon Bee

The Mortal Kombat Of Abortion Ministry: The Jeff Durbin Interview

The Babylon Bee

Seth Dillon

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.42.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Jeff Durbin, a Pastor and Elder of Apologia Church in Tempe, a hospital chaplain, outreach minister, and a popular speaker. He’s a martial artist with 5 black belts, has played roles from Mortal Kombat and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and is known for sidewalk ministry and apologetics debates. The guys talk about martial arts, video games, ministry, and Jeff's crazy adoption story. Jeff co-hosts Apologia Radio and Apologia TV, both found at Apologia Studios, and you can find Apologia's outreach resources for pro-life ministry at End Abortion Now.

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Topics Discussed

  • Martial arts

  • Sidwalk ministry outside places where abortion takes place

    • We get Jeff’s thoughts on Abolitionism vs Pro-life activism

    • An abortion doctor in Phoenix pulled out a gun to threaten Jeff’s group

  • The arcades being the hangout spots

  • Jeff’s video game roles

  • Mortal Kombat: The Live Tour

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  • MTV’s The Final Fu

Subscriber Portion (Begins at 00:53:17)

  • Real life self-defence stories

  • Carman’s music inspires Jeff’s friend

  • Behind the scenes with apologist James White

    • What’s the deal with the coogi sweaters?

  • Giving knives to children

  • Jeff adopted a child who had a medical condition saved from abortion and then God totally healed him.

Also mentioned on the podcast: The King James Only Controversy by James White.

You need to check out this sweet promo reel of Jeff Durbin’s martial arts on display in MTV’s The Final Fu and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Real People Real Interviews

0:04.0

I just have to say that I object

0:07.0

Strain you as late to your use of the word Galarius.

0:10.0

Hard-hitting questions.

0:12.0

What do you think about feminism?

0:14.0

Do you like it?

0:15.0

Taking you to the cutting edge of truth.

0:18.0

Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made

0:21.0

and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars.

0:25.0

Kyle pulls no punches.

0:27.0

I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night.

0:30.0

He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope.

0:35.0

If I may, how double dare you?

0:38.0

This is the Babylon B interview show.

0:45.0

All right everyone, well we are here

0:47.0

hold up in the Babylon B offices,

0:49.0

quarantining ourselves so as not to spread coronavirus.

0:52.0

And we're going to have,

0:54.0

we're going to have Pastor Jeff Durbin join us,

0:56.0

but because of our quarantine we told him to stay in Arizona.

0:59.0

And he's joining us instead over the airwaves

1:01.0

and we don't think we can transmit coronavirus that way.

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