Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. My name is John Harris and as you can see by the

background behind me there I am not in my wife's laundry room today. I am

in a hotel room in Nebraska and across the river behind me is Iowa. I'm in Sioux City and I'll tell you why in just a moment but I'm using the hotel light here so it's washing out my face a little

more white privilege this episode unfortunately so you'll have to put up with

that and put up with a little fatigue I'm I'm doing this late at night I've got an early flight tomorrow, but I've been

living this way for the past week and a half or so. And so I want you to know, especially those

are my supporters, kind of what I've been up to and I think it will

encourage you and after that we're going to talk a little bit about something

long overdue and that's the First Baptist Church of Naples Florida. I went there in December and I haven't really given a report on this

podcast and I think I need to. I know there's a mini documentary enemies within the church

is going to be putting out about this and

that's taken I guess a little longer than was anticipated hopefully it'll be out in the next few weeks but

figure I'll just you know give you kind of my. It'll be different than the documentary anyways.

And for those who don't know, that situation is just kind of a heartbreaking situation.

The leadership of First Baptist Church of Naples

and mega church in Florida decided to write an open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention

last year condemning former members in their church of racism and

repenting for it. And it's all a lie because I went down there and the fact that

this church is in a large Republican donor base area in a swing state of Florida. I mean you sway a

10,000 person church you can sway a national election and so there are not just

theological and you know done and denominational ramifications.

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