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Eric Metaxas is responding with his thoughts after a video surfaced of him and President Trump at a wedding discussing Heaven. In a video of the two men attending a wedding for Metaxas’s friend Mike Wilkerson, the President jokingly referred to Metaxas, who serves on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission, as “the guy who’s going to get me to heaven…” Metaxas shared the video of the comment, as well as his thoughts. “I laughed and told him, ‘I’d really like to talk to you about that… but another time,’” he reflected. “Then I reminded him, ‘Don’t forget—you’re America’s Supercentennial President.’ Truthfully, I would love to have that conversation with him one day. But this wasn’t the place.”

Metaxas reflected more on the encounter, thanking the President for his presence at his friend’s wedding and asked his followers to pray for an opportunity to share more with the President. “[Trump] was SO gracious to show up at my friend’s wedding and obviously taken with the happy couple,” he wrote. “When he saw me he joked that my evangelistic efforts were having an effect but he was pulling away so it wasn’t possible for me to say more. I would have loved to! [Please] pray for that!”

Trump has reflected on his eternal resting place in a number of recent comments. Most recently, he shared his hopes that his historic peace deal between Hamas and Israel would earn him a place in Heaven. He made a similar comment on Fox News when discussing brokering peace between Ukraine and Russia. “If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that’s pretty — I want to try to get to heaven if possible,” he said. “I’m hearing that I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”

Metaxas has shared that the President says he listens to his show, where he discusses faith, “all the time.” “I’ve teased him about it, but he insists,” he told People. “So I assume he’s aware of my Christian faith and has heard me talk about it a fair amount on the show, which was what prompted him to say I could conceivably play some role in bringing him to a deeper faith.”

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