Aug 13, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jon Pratt and Greg Deckert, friends for over 50 years, as they take us back to Owatonna, Minnesota, where two faculty families arrived at Pillsbury Baptist Bible…
Jon PrattGuestMicahHost
Greg DeckertGuestYeah.
How have you been intentional? You talk about just some of the natural ways.
I mean, you're both going to law school and seminary, or you've got an apartment.
What are some of the more intentional ways that you've had to fight through, even geographically within the Twin Cities and your different places? What are some of the parts that you've intentionally said, hey, we want to cut out this time of our month, our week, our year? to continue that? What does building friendship look like even now in today's?
Well, I think we go all the way back to when we were I got married after my first year of seminary.
But we would, even back then, cultivated our friendship by getting, we got together for lunch regularly.
and it wasn't that long of a walk for him to get over there and it wasn't bad for me.
Yeah.
And, uh, were they any dynamics of that? The lunch conversations there, just even accountability questions, things that you would wait ways to go deeper than that.
Well,
I mean, I think that's really important for people that you're just getting to know.
But John and I have gone, we have such a deep history that, you know, it's not like we have to say, okay, we've talked about the weather and we've talked about sports.
Yeah.
How have you been intentional? You talk about just some of the natural ways.
I mean, you're both going to law school and seminary, or you've got an apartment.
What are some of the more intentional ways that you've had to fight through, even geographically within the Twin Cities and your different places? What are some of the parts that you've intentionally said, hey, we want to cut out this time of our month, our week, our year? to continue that? What does building friendship look like even now in today's?
Well, I think we go all the way back to when we were I got married after my first year of seminary.
But we would, even back then, cultivated our friendship by getting, we got together for lunch regularly.
and it wasn't that long of a walk for him to get over there and it wasn't bad for me.
Yeah.
And, uh, were they any dynamics of that? The lunch conversations there, just even accountability questions, things that you would wait ways to go deeper than that.
Well,
I mean, I think that's really important for people that you're just getting to know.
But John and I have gone, we have such a deep history that, you know, it's not like we have to say, okay, we've talked about the weather and we've talked about sports.
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