Prank-call To a Pastor

Well, I just dropped off real quick there. You can catch us at 4 to 6 p .m. on Saturdays. I'm in the studio with my other elder and pastor at Apologia Church.

His name is The Bear, Luke Pearson. What's up? And we're also with Joy Tembe here. Hello. Well, again, 4 to 6 p .m.

on Saturdays. You can catch us and also catch the back episodes at ApologiaRadio .com. Here's the deal.

We were trying to squeeze into this one little episode. We were stealing the episode from Tom.

We were trying to squeeze in sort of a little flavor of Apologia Radio, so we were trying to do a prank call, some theologically rich stuff.

And so we're going to give it a shot again, and if it doesn't work live here on the air, you can listen into the show on the weekends and listen to the past episodes of us prank calling

Christian bookstores, other pastors. We like to have fun, and again, we have serious moments of well -known theologians and scholars and scientists on.

We like to have a good time, and so I make this show something enjoyable to listen to. So here we go. I'm going to call

Duncan as a character, by the way. I don't think I mentioned that. I'm not calling as Jeff Durbin. I'm calling as Leroy.

So here we go. I'm going to get myself ready here. Okay, here we go. Okay. And yes, Luke, turn around.

Shut your mouth. Don't talk to me. Hello, Luke Pearson.

Pastor Duncan. Yes. Pastor Duncan, it's Leroy. Sorry? It's Leroy that ran the deal.

Tell him I'm calling you. Yeah. Pastor, this is Leroy Hubbard from Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

Oh, okay. How are you doing there? Good, man. Yourself? I'm doing well. Doing real well.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, Pastor Duncan. That's okay. You linked up with that Vision Arizona, correct?

Yeah. Tell me about yourself, Pastor Duncan. You got quite a little accent there. What's that from?

It's from Australia originally, man. From where? Australia. I would have guessed maybe

New Zealand. That's a joke, Pastor. That's a joke.

Tell me why you wanted to link up with the Vision? With Vision Arizona? Yes, sir.

Well, you know, I've been at Church of Celebration for five years now, which is the

Vision Arizona Church. Pastor, let's cut to the chase for a moment now. What is your doctrine? What is my doctrine?

What part of my doctrine are you asking about? You know, Baptist by nature or what?

Baptist by nature. I'm a follower of Christ by nature, I think. Right. So do

I believe that baptism is for a person who professes a faith in Christ and therefore and its full immersion?

Yeah, I guess so. That's what I was going to ask you now. Again, this is Zion Missionary Baptist Church, and we want to help support your work there in Austria.

And so what we're doing is asking your doctrinal questions because we want to serve you.

We've learned how to find things to say about you. So, Pastor, again, this is Leroy and I to ask you, we want to ask you about if you sprinkle, if you tinkle, pour or dunk,

Ned. That's a joke, Pastor Duncan. I'm just joking with you.

Yeah, yeah. No, sir. I mean, I would say dunk. You know, I think the nice thing about Australia is there's plenty of water everywhere.

And so, you know, I'd have baptism as a celebration and I'd dunk folks. Well, when are you planning going on out there,

Duncan? Have you ever been to Austria? Yeah, I mean, I lived there 26 years before I moved out here.

Pastor, what kind of, are you a young man? Are you an old man? What kind of state are you in?

What kind of shape? I'm 33 years old and I'd say I'm in fighting fit shape.

I had a tournament for Jiu Jitsu two weeks ago. You do what now? Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the mixed martial arts.

That's amazing. Pastor, I'm also into this wrestling. Maybe I would do this.

My name, again, is Pastor Leroy. Yeah. From Missionary Baptist Church. Maybe, perhaps, for the funding for your church, you and I could wrestle for it.

That's a joke, Pastor. That's a joke, Pastor. Pastor Duncan, listen,

I'm what some people might refer to as a big man. I got a bit of a jiggle neck.

That's a joke, Pastor. What translation of the scriptures, Duncan, do you use?

What translation? Yes, sir. Typically, I preach from, only because all my memory verses are in it,

NIV, but usually I study and preach more these days, ESV. ESV?

Yeah. I would have figured maybe you use the ASV. The American Standard Version? No, the Australian Standard Version, Pastor.

That's just Leroy, and that's a joke, Pastor. Listen, Pastor Duncan, I want to ask you a bit more in the future about with the other elder clan at my church.

What type of church government do you believe in? Well, I guess

I'm typically... You follow the Moses model? You part in the

Red Sea and all the people of Israel follow you through it? Oh, okay. Yeah. Is it

Jebediah who spits it up and says you got leaders of... No, listen, primarily

I'd say kind of elder -driven. So, you know, elders and deacons, I think elders...

Well, you're only 33 years old. You call yourself an elder? I beg to differ,

Pastor Duncan. That's a joke, Pastor. Listen, I got to go evangelize or fossilize.

All right, Pastor? I'll call you back. Evangelize or fossilize. That's a joke,

Pastor. That's a joke. I love it. It worked.

It worked. Oh, Duncan. I love Duncan. I can't believe it actually worked.

I told you it would. That was amazing. Yeah, that was awesome. That was legitimately amazing.

He's probably like, what has just happened? That's just incredible. I can't believe we actually got him. It seemed like he really enjoyed that, though.

It did, it did. Like, he wishes that you're a real person. Maybe let's just never tell him.

You can just always be this character. I wanted so badly to go over the top with Leroy, but I couldn't.

Like, I had stuff written down here I was going to say to him. Like, I was going to say, Pastor Leroy! Leroy Hubbard, Pastor!

And I know my body, the temple to hold it's built! And I'm trying to watch what

I eat. And so I only order off the dollar menu at McDonald's. That's a joke,

Pastor! That's a joke! But I knew that was over the top. Wouldn't have worked. Oh, man.

So how are we going to let them know? I don't know. Just let it happen. Yep. Let's just let it happen.

And so, Duncan, gotcha. I was completely skeptical. I did not think that was going to work.

So now this is perfect. Everyone got to get a little flavor of Apology Radio, what we like to do. We like to listen.

I think a lack of a sense of humor shows a lack of intelligence. So, yeah. We like to have fun and enjoy life.

I think it should be full of joy. And so, Duncan's a good friend of ours. He's a hilarious dude. Yeah. You didn't get that just now.

No, he actually held back a little. Yeah, Duncan is hilarious. Like, you will laugh every minute you're with the guy.

He is hilarious. He was completely serious there. So I want to thank Randy Deal from Vision Arizona for hooking us up, like calling ahead of time, and like setting this whole thing up.

So we thought someone was really calling to support him. Apologize. We don't have any money to give you, Duncan. Now he's probably all upset because he's like, whoa,

I thought this guy was going to help me out. He could give him like a dollar or something. He's at home right now with his wife thinking, that was the strangest phone call.

I don't want to play in a church anymore. Have you ever been to Australia?

He said he was from Australia. I know. I love it. Your ASV, that was good.

That was clever. Yeah, Joy hooked me up with that one before we started. I was thinking this was good stuff to do. I guess

I should tell my story of Duncan real quick so people know how funny he normally is. So Jeff and I saw him a couple weeks ago now and he came up to me totally serious and says, whenever I see you and Jif, I'll think of two precious unicorns.

That's Duncan. And you didn't get that from the phone call. He obviously didn't hear the undercurrent of unicorns.

I want you guys to hear, so we have limited time here. We have a two hour show normally for us, but this is Tom's show, so we're just busting out the hour show we can.

I want you guys to hear me talking to a friend of mine I've known for over 10 years at the temple. He's LDS. I'm going to let you hear a funny part of the clip of us being at the temple.

No thanks, Paul. I disagree. That's why it just shows that Mormonism collapses. It hasn't restored prophets and apostles to the church because a biblical prophet, you wouldn't do that with.

I'm willing to bet if I handed you a copy of Luke. Luke. You talk so fast.

Okay, I'm willing to bet if I handed you a copy of, let's say one of Paul's writings. Can you slow down? Yes, absolutely.

Do you know about the fallacy of fast talking? I might because I had some yerba mate before I came.

It's a tea. Are you on caffeine or some, or are you hyperactive? No, no, no, no.

I'm just excited to talk to you. What is your thing? See, this is the thing is that you overwhelm people.

You are into karate and fast talking. Do you drink 20 cups of coffee a day?

Actually, I don't drink coffee. What are you on? Are you on some kind of medication?

No, no. Metamines or something? No, no, Stefan. What do you take? No, no. Stefan, when you ask me a question,

I'm going to answer it honestly and I'm going to give you the scriptures. I mean, you are just overwhelming.

Okay. All right. Well, we'll go as slow as possible because I love you. Okay, Stefan.

Your point has been made. I feel like I'm in a karate tournament and I don't even have a belt.

You do have a belt. You have a black belt on. No, I don't. That's a black belt, Stefan. Yeah. The color is black but I'm holding up my pants with one hand and you are,

I don't know how many degrees black belt. Five. I have five black belts. And I'm unmatched. You are a rocket scientist theologian.

No, no, no, no. I'm not. I'm not. I just love you. I love you and listen, I care. And so when you ask me a question,

I want to answer it and I'm going to answer it fully and faithfully. I don't think that it's genuine. On your tract, you don't answer anything fully.

You take sound bites from Brigham Young and he said his volume,

Journal of Discourses is what? Like two feet or three feet wide? It's big. It's big.

Yeah. And in your tract is like one page front and back.

Well, yeah, because I have to hand out thousands. I don't have books to hand out, Stephan. Look, Stephan, look what you're doing.

Anything that he said positive, you totally leave out. Because how much poison does it take to kill you,

Stephan? Oh, like freedomfromreligion .org would argue the same thing. Stephan.

And they take only the foul things that they can figure out from the

Bible and they say Christianity will poison you. Well, if I could answer the point that we were on, what

I was showing you was that a Biblical prophet, a Biblical prophet, I'm not allowed to disagree with a

Biblical prophet's revelation from God. What you're doing is you're claiming as your foundation that we stand on the

Biblical view of prophets. We have them restored to our church. But then when I press you on something that your quote -unquote

Biblical prophet said, you say I reject that. He says you're damned. Well, what about Thomas?

There's a little sampling of the caffeinated Jeff Durbin black belt ninja.

What are you on, Jeff? Amphetamines? No, seriously. ApologiaRadio .com

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Apologia Radio filling in for Tom. His Koinonia show has been taken over and hijacked by Apologia Radio.

This is Koinonia today with Pastor Jeff Durbin, Luke Pearson, and Joy Tembe. You've been listening in and you can catch us at ApologiaRadio .com

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Fool. It's with Si Ten Bruggencate. It's how to do biblical apologetics. Psalm 14 is where it comes from.

Luke, quick comment you want to give for the show? I love compologetics. Did I say that? Yeah, you did.

I like to, on our show, I like to share comments that people have left us on iTunes. This is a very good one.

I think I'll share it just to give you guys a taste of what we do. How many stars is it, first of all?

Oh, it's five. We have 26 five -star ratings. And the subject is,

Your beard is so loud. Clearly, that's referring to me and not Jeff. Oh, no.

It's by Puritan Apocalypse. That's a great name. It says, Love the show. Discovered you guys through KittyKat.

That's Jeff, by the way. Like all of my anti -Papal comments on Facebook. So, I know you were legit.

Everything you mentioned makes me think you stole my diary. I hope to join you on the battlefield sometime. Being as I am a

West Valley guy, keep it up. Praying for you three. Right on. Thank you, Puritan Apocalypse. What did you say about my beard?

Well, your beard's not very loud. It's there. Luke. Why on this show do you do this to me?

It's not even our regular time period. In front of the drive time hour, you're just going to be... Well, you know what?

He doesn't have any friends. But my beard's loud. Nobody likes you. Someone else had something to say for you just there.

Grow your beard, Jeff. And you guys can have a loudness competition. I want to tell you guys real fast. Joy... This is some chill music, by the way.

I know. I'm easing out of this show with Tom Brown. Yeah.

This has been Tom Brown's show. Welcome to Corner Nia. Yeah. Joy has a spirit beard.

That's all I wanted to say. She has a spirit beard. This is Jeff Durbin, Luke Pearson, Joy Temme, ApologiaRadio .com.