Rededicate 250 | Ep. 03: David Blease

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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Please welcome all the way from Dallas, Texas. Patriot Mobile? Good to have you. Pleasure to meet you. So I know a little about Patriot Mobile, but tell me, tell me and everybody watching about your great company.

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So I I just came on board this week. So I've been a pastor for 14 years at Gateway Church.

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Oh, yeah, in South Lake.

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Yeah. And so I grew up there and uh was a youth pastor for seven years and then pastored at You don't have to tell me your exact street address.

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But are you are you in South Lake? Not anymore. But you live there?

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Well, I worked there, but I lived in Frisco.

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Oh, Frisco too. Okay. Those are two places that when people write negative stuff about America Online, like this country is going down, I think. I bet you you don't live in South Lake. Because when you're there, it's like Frisco. America. Yeah, they're great places, huh?

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Yeah, totally. All right.

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So go ahead. So you pastor for 14 years. Yeah. And then uh tell me how the Patriot Mobile opened up.

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I mean, really, we just uh started uh attending certain events, and I was speaking at certain events, and they were uh they were uh funding lots of these ministries and lots of these organizations that were expanding the gospel or defending our freedoms, like offense and defense. Patriot Mobile does both. And they talked to me a you know a few months ago about starting Patriot Mobile Faith, which was just overseeing the faith uh organizations that they already support, right? Growing that. And then I had a burden to really help the church. The past six years I've been at the Center for Israel and just helping church understand Israel, understand the theology, understand how do we balance biblical Israel, modern Israel. Does that mean I can support BB? Like all that kind of stuff that most of the what's really flared up the last two years. Oh, yeah, it's crazy. And you always hear the you know, far ends of the spectrum, and we wanted to bring the biblical balance. And so with Patriot Mobile Faith, we're gonna have more content, podcasts, teachings, articles to help that same kind of nuance intention when it comes to abortion, immigration, Islam, and just try to help the church and support the churches as they you know struggle with these topics.

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Tell me for everybody that's watching that has a mobile phone, which would be about everybody, what sets Patriot Mobile apart?

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Well, that's a great question. Most of thanks. I thought I have it myself. Most of the other carriers uh are are these you know big woke organizations and corporations. And most people don't realize that they give a portion of every dollar to support things like Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ activism, and there was no other solution. And so Glenn and Jenny, our founders, they said, well, we have we want to create a Christian and conservative alternative that has the same great quality of service, but we bring that same portion of every dollar and we give it to Embrace Grace, which helps moms walk through unplanned pregnancies and relance baby showers, or life wise, which is getting the Bible back into public schools, uh, or moms for gun rights and you know protecting the Second Amendment. So they they launched uh Patriot Mobile and it's using the same towers that you use at ATT or Verizon or T-Mobile. And what's even better is if you're you know in Frisco and you have great Verizon service, you can be on Patriot Mobile and get the Verizon Towers and you have the same great service. But if you move and you're like, oh, actually, ATT is big out here, you don't have to go call ATT, switch your phone plan. Want to say, hey, we'll put you on the ATT towers. So you're getting the best coverage no matter where you go.

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And you know your money's going not to your enemies, to your friends. 100%. That's awesome. Tell me when you felt called in the ministry.

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How old? I was uh going into my senior year. Youth camp or what? It was a youth camp. It was what state in Texas? In Texas, and I had my whole life planned out. You know, my family was in financial advising and stockbroking, and so I was So they were devastated when you said you wanted to go into the monastery. I was kind of devastated when I felt the Lord call me to ministry. My first response was I don't want to be poor. Right. I had never met a pastor. Uh that I or I had like you know brief relationships at churches. They never had any money. But and I never I never had like a family member. Most pastors, you're like, Oh, my grandfather was a pastor, my uncle's a pastor. I knew no past, I had no idea what they did. Literally thought that they just stayed in Starbucks' and you know, met people and planned messages. So when God called me to not far off for 80%. I get, yeah, for some for some people, I guess. So yeah, there are a lot of coffee shops. There's a lot of that that part was true, especially in Texas.

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It's hard to get in and out of a service without somebody asking if they can pray for you.

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Yeah, that's true. Go ahead. That's a good part of Texas. Yeah, so I just uh I said, Lord, if you're really calling me to ministry, you're need you're gonna need to confirm it. And not like a bird, oh, count or make it, but like really confirm it in the next week. I got asked to be an FCA leader at my school. I got asked to lead uh campus crusades for Christ at my school, and asked to be an intern at my church.

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And I was like, dang it.

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So then what what'd you do after high school? So right after high school, I mean, the only person that I knew in ministry was my youth pastor. So I said, What did you do? Because God called me to be a pastor, and he said, Well, I went to DBU and got a biblical studies major. Well, great. So I'm going to DBU and I'm getting a biblical studies major because I had no other Which is what, Dallas Bible? Baptist. Dallas Baptist University. Baptist University, yep. Beautiful campus. And you went there? I went there and and then got out of Bible school and then what? And then I was uh I became a kids' pastor for six months, and then a role opened up in the church that I was a part of as a as a high schooler to be the youth pastor. And I youth pastored there for seven years.

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How'd you get on the radar at Gateway?

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Uh I I was at Gateway. I was a student, I was student at Gateway. Yeah. So I I never left.

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Wow, I see. That's great. Yeah. What an awesome testimony. So then you felt uh the transition to do this. How'd that open up?

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Well, so before I went from youth ministry, I went to the Center for Israel, which was a crazy shift for people like where's that located? It's within Gateway, it's a ministry within Gateway.

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That's a safe distance from the Middle East.

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Yeah, we go to the Middle East quite often.

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Israel, Georgia, it's nice to advocate for Israel from Texas.

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Yeah, that's it. Much safer for sure. But we have we have so many uh messianic Jewish friends in Israel and all over the world. Yes, and we support them and we try to uh unite with them because when we do relationship as Jews and Gentiles, I mean, Jews read the Bible so differently, especially with the messianic Jewish perspective. There's things that they read and instantly understand went way over our heads, right? And so that was the first kind of big shift. People were like, why is he going from youth ministry to the center for Israel? That's not a normal stepping stool in the church. And uh, and I just had this huge heart to understand the the Jewish context of our faith. And then that led me to actually doing a Hanukkah party for the Jewish conservatives of America. I was the token Christian pastor, just talking about how really how unbiblical replacement theology is. Because there's basically the idea that God had a covenant with you know Israel, but then they rejected him, so now he has a covenant with the church. And you're like, so Israel is God's ex-wife, and we're his new bride. Does that sound like the faithfulness of God to you? But it actually it defames his character, right? Replacement theology isn't just illogical, it actually defames God's character, right?

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Because it was an everlasting covenant.

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Yeah, so we try to help people nuance. So I spoke at a Hanukkah party, and Glenn and Jenny happened to be there in the audience, and so that started the relationship, and we started doing things about you know Islam coming into tech Texas, yes, like that epic city. Yeah, and the thing about Islam is you know, we need to be uh articulate and we need to understand the Quran and Islam. But if you don't understand Israel, then you kind of are are missing the forest through the trees because Islam and Chris Christianity will often shake hands when it comes to persecuting Jews, right? And I've seen it, you see it now in the far right and the far left. Yes, the one thing that they're seeing clearly on is oh, but the Jews run the world, and you we can we can unify against Jews. Yes, and so if you understand Islam but don't understand Israel, then we're gonna find ourselves in a similar situation as the Crusades where it's Christianity versus Islam, but the Jews are caught in the middle, right? So that's a great way to put it. So you you you're uh based out of Texas still? Yeah, we're based out of Texas. The great place to base. Yeah, the uh Patriot Mobile office is seven minutes from Gateways.

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So that's awesome.

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Yeah, I lost no time on my commute. I had a 35-minute commute, now it's 33. Tell me what brought you here to this event. Uh, this is the first event that I'm on here with Patriot Mobile. So this is my first week. What are you doing with Patriot Mobile here? Uh I I did the RAV show this whole morning. So I was like, Oh, you did, huh? I was a co-host with with David and Ben and Michelle, and we were just here talking about the the the you know show behind us, and we had amazing guests, David uh Bart or Tim Barton from Wall Builders, Yako Boyans, who's planting Mercy Culture Church in DC next Sunday. Wow. So we just had some great conversations talking about the separation of church and state and what that really means, what that meant when Thomas Thomas Jefferson wrote it, and how it's been completely misapplied in our you know our current situation.

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That Christians are to have no role whatsoever in America anything. Exactly.

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Yeah, so we just we've hadn't had fun conversations. So we're here. We have some awesome t-shirts. I'd love to get to you to you guys. It's uh called a Jesus tour t-shirt. We tried to make a t-shirt that looked like it was in your mom's closet from the 80s. Like a deck.

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I would love that as long as you don't mind me cutting the sleeves off.

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Cut the sleeves, that's what they're made for. We only put sleeves on it so they could be cut off. We didn't want it to look too clean.

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Who was exceptionally powerful this morning on the stage uh that stood out to you?

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Uh I I I wasn't here and I didn't watch. Who was good? Okay, well, no one sounded as good as Chris Tomlin. He did great, he did amazing, and there were certain certain uh worship experience that didn't have that kind of sound quality. We were talking earlier, we're like Chris Tomlin's guys have it locked in. Wow. Uh so he was incredible. Uh obviously, he's anointed. Um, I know you had you had him on the show when you were interviewing the guy who did the prayer at the inauguration. What's his name? James Sol. Okay, he is he's incredible. Yes. Um, but the one that I thought was most impactful was Lou Engel.

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When what around what time was he on?

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He was uh in the afternoon, you may be like one or two p.m. But he he had everyone get on his knees and he said, We need to repent. We need to repent personally and as a nation. And so you saw this entire field filled with people on their knees. He cried out repentance, repented for personal sins, sins of our nation, and then said told everyone to stand, raise their hand, and we're gonna declare that God is you know the king of the universe, the king of the nation.

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But what really what sins of the nation? Sorry for what winning World War II, bailing everyone out.

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I think I think there was a there's a great uh there was a I knew that was gonna be a prayer meeting yesterday talking about uh this how scripture talks about the three things that will lose the favor of God. One is idolatry, yeah, one is greed, yeah, and then one is the the killing of innocent children. Yes, and so we've we've seen that happen, an increase in America, and so we have to recorrect soon, or else it's like the Canaanites, you know. It's there there's a certain level of he's giving you time has enough to repent, but we don't want to be on the other side of that.

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No, absolutely. I'm glad uh you're doing everything you're doing. You can tell you know your Bible and you're a minister, you know, and that's good that you're going into all these spheres. I'm sure you're gonna have massive impact of the kingdom of God. I appreciate it. Glad to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you guys too.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

Thanks for having me on. Thanks for being on.

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Yeah, tell everybody where they can get a hold of you uh for in your new role.

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Yeah, so you can go to patriotmobile.com. You can uh use a promo code. We have one today for RAV USA. You can go use a promo code GoFaith, and we're gonna make sure that all that money goes, a portion of every dollar goes to supporting ministries that are expanding the kingdom and defending God-given rights, like the First Amendment, Second Amendment, uh, the right to life, and protecting and supporting our veterans. So go to Patreon Mobile, switch today. It's easy, it'll take you 20 minutes on the phone, and uh, we'd love to see you anytime you're in Dallas, Texas.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

Yes, great to have you on. Thank you. Hope to see you again. Keep up the great work. Thank you so much.

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