Rededicate 250 | Ep. 03: David Blease

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Podcast: Jonathan Shuttlesworth
Episode: Rededicate 250 | Ep. 03: David Blease
Date: May 21, 2026
Guest: David Blease (Pastor, Director at Patriot Mobile Faith; formerly at Gateway Church, Center for Israel)

In this episode, Jonathan Shuttlesworth talks with David Blease about his journey from pastoring at Gateway Church in Texas to joining and directing the faith initiatives at Patriot Mobile. The conversation explores Blease’s call to ministry, his transition into faith-focused telecommunications, the theological significance of Israel, and the importance of Christians engaging in societal issues. Highlights include memorable stories, lucid explanations of complex topics, and reflections on the nation's spiritual health.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

David Blease’s Ministry Journey & Calling

• Pastoral Background
  • Blease served for 14 years at Gateway Church, including 7 years as a youth pastor ([00:29]).
  • Transitioned into a role helping churches understand their relationship with Israel ([01:07]).
• Call to Ministry
  • Felt called during a Texas youth camp before his senior year ([03:41]):

    "My first response was, I don't want to be poor." — David Blease ([03:55])

  • Quickly had doors open: was asked to lead FCA, Campus Crusades for Christ, and to intern at church shortly after asking God for confirmation ([04:33]).

Patriot Mobile’s Mission & Distinction

• Christian Conservative Alternative
  • Most carriers fund causes like Planned Parenthood or LGBTQ activism, but Patriot Mobile channels those portions to pro-faith, pro-life, and pro-family organizations ([02:24]).

    “Most of the other carriers are these big woke organizations and corporations... so [we] want to create a Christian and conservative alternative.” — David Blease ([02:24])

  • Supported organizations mentioned: Embrace Grace (unplanned pregnancies), LifeWise (Bible in public schools), Moms for Gun Rights.
• Same Coverage, Different Mission
  • Uses existing towers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile), but repurposes profits for faith-based initiatives ([02:52]).

    “What’s even better is... you can be on Patriot Mobile and get the Verizon towers... if you move, we'll put you on the AT&T towers, so you're getting the best coverage no matter where you go.” — David Blease ([03:07])

• Flexibility for Users
  • Customers can have the best network for their location without switching companies ([03:08]).

Theology: Israel & Replacement Theology

• Shifting from Youth Ministry to Center for Israel
  • Left conventional ministry path to focus on Jewish-Christian relations ([06:03]).
  • Passion for explaining the continuity of God's covenant with Israel:

    “Does that sound like the faithfulness of God to you? But actually it defames his character." — David Blease on replacement theology ([07:01])

• Importance of Jewish-Gentile Relationship
  • Messianic Jews bring distinct biblical interpretations often missed by Gentile Christians ([06:10]).
• Replacement Theology Critique
  • Replacing Israel with the church is not biblical or reflective of God’s character ([07:01]).

Navigating Hot-Button Issues in Church & Society

• Nuanced Content Forthcoming
  • Patriot Mobile Faith plans to provide more nuanced content on topics such as abortion, immigration, Islam, and modern Israel ([01:49]).
• Interfaith and Intercultural Challenges
  • Urges that without understanding Israel, Christians can fall into historical errors where Jews suffer between Christianity and Islam ([07:26]).

    “If you understand Islam but don’t understand Israel, then we’re going to find ourselves in a similar situation as the Crusades where it’s Christianity versus Islam, but the Jews are caught in the middle.” — David Blease ([07:43])

Reflections on the State of America and Revival Events

• Engaging in Civic Life
  • Debunking the myth that “separation of church and state” means Christians stay out of public affairs ([08:59]).
  • Quotes Thomas Jefferson out of historical context ([09:02]).
• Memorable Event Moments
  • Blease described Lou Engle’s powerful call to repentance, during which thousands knelt together in prayer ([10:03]):

    “He had everyone get on his knees... repented for personal sins, sins of our nation, and then said... we’re going to declare that God is... king of the universe, king of the nations." — David Blease ([10:06])

• Identifying National Sins
  • See idolatry, greed, and the killing of innocent children as reasons for losing God's favor ([10:33]):

    “There are three things that will lose the favor of God. One is idolatry, one is greed, and then one is the killing of innocent children.” — David Blease ([10:33])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Ministry Calling

  “My first response was, I don’t want to be poor.” — David Blease ([03:55])

• On Faithful Business

  “Most people don’t realize that they give a portion of every dollar to support things like Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ activism... so we want to create a Christian and conservative alternative.” — David Blease ([02:24])

• On Replacement Theology

  “Replacement theology isn’t just illogical, it actually defames God’s character.” — David Blease ([07:08])

• On Historic Dangers

  “If you understand Islam but don’t understand Israel, then we’re going to find ourselves in a similar situation as the Crusades…” — David Blease ([07:43])

• On American Repentance

  “We need to repent personally and as a nation... idolatry, greed, and the killing of innocent children…” — David Blease ([10:06], [10:33])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:29 — David’s pastoral and faith background
• 01:07 — Patriot Mobile Faith: origin and vision
• 02:20 — What sets Patriot Mobile apart; redirection of profits
• 03:41 — David’s call to ministry (youth camp story)
• 04:55 — Early ministry steps and education
• 06:03 — Shift to Center for Israel; importance of Jewish-Christian learning
• 07:01 — Critique of replacement theology and biblical faithfulness
• 07:24 — Islam, Israel, and dangers of misunderstanding
• 08:59 — Discussing misconceptions about separation of church and state
• 10:03 — Lou Engle's call to repentance at the event
• 10:33 — Listing of national sins that prompt God to remove favor
• 11:26 — Where to learn more/switch to Patriot Mobile; promo details

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Additional Context & Contact Information

• Where to Learn More / Switch to Patriot Mobile
  • Visit patriotmobile.com
  • Promo codes: RAVUSA, GOFAITH ([11:26])
  • A portion of every dollar supports faith and liberty initiatives

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This episode is rich with testimonials, biblical insights, and a clear call to purposeful Christian engagement—both in spiritual leadership and daily choices like where we invest our resources. David Blease’s personal journey and articulate explanations provide plenty for listeners to reflect on regarding faith, society, and action.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth podcast. To stay connected, go to revival today dot com. And now here is evangelist Jonathan.

[B]

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 a great company.

[C]

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

[B]

Oh, yeah. In South Lake.

[C]

Yeah. And so I grew up there and was a youth pastor for seven years and then pastored at.

[B]

You don't have to tell me your exact street address. But are you. Are you in South Lake?

[C]

Not anymore.

[B]

But you lived there?

[C]

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

[B]

Oh, Frisco too. 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. Because when you're there, it's like America. Yeah, they're great places, huh?

[C]

Yeah, totally.

[B]

All right, so go ahead. So you pastor for 14 years.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then tell me how the Patriot Mobile opened up.

[C]

I mean, really, we just started attending certain events and I was speaking at certain events and they were, they were 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, you know, a few months ago about starting Patriot Mobile Faith, which was just overseeing the faith organizations that they already support, 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 Bibi? Like all that kind of stuff that

[B]

most of the time really flared up the last two years.

[C]

Oh yeah, it's crazy. And you always hear the, you know, far end of the spectrum. And we wanted to bring the biblical balance. And so with Patriot Mobile faith, we're going to 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.

[B]

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

[C]

Well, that's a great question. Most of the.

[B]

Thanks. I titled it myself.

[C]

Most of the other carriers are these 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 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 lands baby showers, or lifewise, which is getting the Bible back into public schools or moms for gun rights and, you know, protecting the second Amendment. So they. They launched Patriot Mobile, and it's using the same towers that you use at AT&T 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 Patreon Mobile and get the Verizon towers, and you have the same great service. But if you move and you're like, oh, actually, AT&T is big out here. You don't have to go call AT&T, switch your phone plan, want to say, hey, we'll put you on the AT&T towers, so you're getting the best coverage no matter where you go.

[B]

And, you know, your money's going, not. Not to your enemies, to your friends.

[C]

100%.

[B]

That's awesome. Tell me when you felt called in the ministry.

[C]

How old? I was going into my senior year. Youth camp or what? It was a youth camp. It was.

[B]

What state? In Texas.

[C]

In Texas. And I had my whole life planned out. You know, my family was in financial advising and stockbroking, and so I was.

[B]

So they were devastated when you said you wanted to go into the ministry.

[C]

I was kind of devastated when I felt the Lord called me to ministry. My first response was, I don't want to be poor. Right. I had never met a pastor. I had, like, you know, brief relationships at churches. They never had any money, and I never. I never had, like, a family member. Most pastors, you're like, oh, my grandfather was a pastor, my uncle was a pastor. I knew. No, I had no idea. 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, it is not far off. For 80%, I get. Yeah, for some. For some people, I guess so, yeah.

[B]

There are a lot of coffee shops.

[C]

There's a lot of. That part was true.

[B]

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

[C]

Yeah, that's true. Go ahead that's the good part of Texas. Yeah. So I just. I said, lord, if you're really calling me to ministry, you're. You're going to need to confirm it. And not like a bird. Oh, confirmation. But like, really confirming. The next week, I got asked to be an FCA leader at my school. I got asked to lead a campus Crusades for Christ at my school and asked to be an intern at my church. And I was like, dang it.

[B]

So then what. What did you do after high school?

[C]

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.

[B]

Which is what?

[C]

Dallas Bible Baptist.

[B]

Dallas Baptist University.

[C]

Baptist University, Yep. Beautiful campus.

[B]

And you went there?

[C]

I went there and.

[B]

And then got out of Bible school. And then what?

[C]

And then I was. 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. Right. To be the youth pastor. And I youth pastor there for seven years.

[B]

How'd you get on the radar at Gateway?

[C]

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

[B]

Oh, I see. That's great.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What an awesome testimony. So then you felt the transition to do this. How'd that open up?

[C]

Well, so before I went from youth ministry, I went to the center for Israel, which was a crazy shift for people.

[B]

Where's that located?

[C]

It's within Gateway. It's a ministry within Gateway.

[B]

That's a safe distance from the Middle East.

[C]

Yeah, we go to the Middle east quite often. Israel, Jordan.

[B]

It's nice to advocate for Israel. From Texas.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Instead of on the gas.

[C]

Much safer. For sure. But we have. We have so many messianic Jewish friends in Israel and all over the world.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And we support them and we try to 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. And I just had this huge heart to understand 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 it'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 actually it defames his character.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Replacement theology isn't just illogical, it actually defames God's character.

[B]

Right. He's accepted as an everlasting covenant.

[C]

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 Texas.

[B]

Yes. Like that epic city.

[C]

Yeah. And the thing about Islam is, you know, we need to be articulate and we need to understand the Quran and Islam. But if you don't understand Israel, then you kind of are missing the forest through the trees. Because Islam and 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 we can unify against Jews. Yes. And so if you understand Islam but don't understand Israel, then we're going to find ourselves in a similar situation as the Crusades where it's Christianity versus Islam, but the Jews are caught in the middle.

[B]

Right. So that's a great way to put it. So you're based out of Texas still?

[C]

Yeah, we're based out of Texas.

[B]

The great place to base.

[C]

Yeah. The Patriot Mobile office is seven minutes from Gateways, so that's awesome. Yeah, I lost no time on my commute. I had a 35 minute commute, now it's 33.

[B]

Tell me what brought you here to this event?

[C]

This is the first event that I'm, I'm here with Patriot Mobile, so this is my first week.

[B]

What are you doing with Patriot Mobile here?

[C]

I, I did the rap show this whole morning, so. 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 Bart or Tim Barton from Wall Builders. Jacob Boyens, who's planting Mercy culture Church in D.C. next Sunday.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

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 current situation

[B]

that Christians are to have no role whatsoever in America. Anything.

[C]

Exactly. Yeah. So we just. We've had had fun conversations. So we're here. We have some awesome T shirts. I'd love to. To get to you. To you guys. It's 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.

[B]

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

[C]

Cut the sleeve. 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.

[B]

Velcroed on who was exceptionally powerful this morning on the stage that stood out to you? I wasn't here, and I didn't watch who was good.

[C]

Okay. Well, no one sounded as good as Chris Tomlin.

[B]

He did great.

[C]

He did amazing. And there were certain. Certain 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. So he was incredible. Obviously, he's anointed. I know you have. You had him on the show when you were interviewing the guy who did the prayer at the inauguration. What's his name?

[B]

Soul.

[C]

Okay. He's incredible.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

But the one that I thought was most impactful was Lou Angle.

[B]

Around what time was he on?

[C]

He was in the afternoon, maybe like 1 or 2pm 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 in repentance, repented for personal sins. Sins of our nation, and then said. Told everyone to stand, raised their hand. We're going to declare that God is, you know, the king of the universe, king of the nations.

[B]

But really, what Sins of the nation? Sorry. For what? Winning World War II, bailing everyone out.

[C]

I think. I think there's a. There's a great. There was coming prayer meeting yesterday talking about this, how scripture talks about the three things that will lose the favor of God. One is idolatry, one is greed, and then one is the. The killing of innocent children.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And so we've. We've seen that happen, an increase in America and so we have to recorrect soon or else. Sure. It's like the, 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.

[B]

No, absolutely. I'm glad you're doing everything you're doing. You can tell you know your Bible and your a minister, you know, and that's good that you're going into all these spheres. I'm sure you're going to have massive impact. Thank Kingdom of God.

[C]

I appreciate it.

[B]

Glad to meet you.

[C]

Yeah, nice to meet you guys too. Thanks for having me on. Thanks for being on.

[B]

Tell everybody where they can get a hold of you in your new role.

[C]

Yeah. So you can go to patriot mobile.com you can use a promo code. We have one today for Rav usa. You can go use a promo code. Go faith. And we're going to 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, 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 we'd love to see you anytime you're in Dallas, Texas.

[B]

Yes. Great to have you on. Thanks to see you again. Keep up the great work.

[C]

Thank you so much.

[A]

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