#327 Josh Howerton - "In 50 Years, China Will Have More Christians Than America"

**Shawn Ryan** (0:00)
I see you. Avatar Fire and Ash is now streaming on Disney Plus.

**Josh Howerton** (0:05)
It's the film critics are calling the best Avatar yet. Go, go, go, go!

**Shawn Ryan** (0:09)
A true epic and completely jaw-dropping.

**Josh Howerton** (0:12)
This is the only pure thing in this world.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:15)
Return to Pandora on Disney Plus. It will be an adventure for the whole fam. And watch the Oscar-winning phenomenon at home. This is sick!

**Josh Howerton** (0:26)
Avatar Fire and Ash, now streaming on Disney Plus. Rated PG-13.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:30)
What if I told you, you only have 12 hours to legally have sex?

**Josh Howerton** (0:34)
To finding true love. Or just like a good guy.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:38)
From the director of EZA and Anyone But You.

**Josh Howerton** (0:40)
This whole thing is nuts.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:42)
There's nothing traditional about this night.

**Josh Howerton** (0:45)
On August 7th, the clock starts on the summer's biggest rom-com. I'm Owen. What about you and me? Monica Barbaro, Callum Turner.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:53)
I've been told I'm a 7th. By who, your mom?

**Josh Howerton** (0:55)
No, she drinks summer time.

**Shawn Ryan** (0:57)
One night only.

**Josh Howerton** (0:58)
Rated R. Only in theaters August 7th.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:05)
Josh Howerton, welcome to the show, man.

**Josh Howerton** (1:08)
It's an honor, my friend.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:09)
It's an honor to have you.

**Josh Howerton** (1:10)
It's an honor.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:11)
So yeah, I've been, you know, my chief of staff came from Dallas and she kind of put you on my radar. And I was watching some of the stuff. Like, I don't remember how you popped up, but she had made a suggestion about you coming on. And I was like, he's already on the list.

**Josh Howerton** (1:28)
Well, dude, I think she's a former Lakepointe member.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:30)
She is. Yeah, dude.

**Josh Howerton** (1:32)
Yeah. So that was a very cool connection, man. Well, and you know, it's cool to meet the people you listen.
I've been watching you for a minute.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:39)
Yeah.

**Josh Howerton** (1:40)
I appreciate you.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:41)
Well, thank you for saying that.

**Josh Howerton** (1:42)
Yes, sir.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:43)
But so yeah, we've got a lot of stuff to talk about today.

**Josh Howerton** (1:47)
I'm in, man.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:48)
I'm pumped.

**Josh Howerton** (1:48)
I'm in. Hey, before we get started, can I give you something?

**Shawn Ryan** (1:50)
Yeah.

**Josh Howerton** (1:51)
I got to give you a gift.

**Shawn Ryan** (1:51)
Of course.

**Josh Howerton** (1:52)
So I appreciate what you've done for our country. This is a big deal to me. It took me a long time to find this. Here's what this is. You may have seen this and you heard of a HeartShield Bible. You ever heard of this? No, this is like this make my eyes sweat a little bit. So here's what this is. I want you to hold that.
So that's the 1943 HeartShield Bible. And what that is, 1943, President FDR, he partnered with, I think, the Gideons. And they handed out these little pocket New Testaments to active World War II soldiers and wrote, what they did is, here's why that thing, I don't know if the viewers can see, the front of that thing is plated brass.
And the reason they did that is they designed it so that it could fit in the front pocket of active World War II soldier. So that it could stop a bullet.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:44)
No way.

**Josh Howerton** (2:45)
And dude, so that guy, you'll see it on the inside, the one I found, that guy, there was I think an Air Force Colonel that wore that into active duty. And Shawn, honestly, man, one of the reasons I said, I don't do this, I don't travel and I don't travel. I got kids and I'm focused.
One of the reasons I said yes to this is, this is what I see God doing in you and through you. And the reason that that thing means so much to me. Dude, that's what that is. That's a prayer that the president wrote for those soldiers to read that book. Wow. And the reason I want you to have that is, man, you know, I'm in it with you. There's that thing that above all, it would sit right over a soldier's heart.
And there's that thing above all else, how do you guard your heart from it, flows the wellspring of life? And how do you guard your heart? I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not send against you. So there you go, man.