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You're listening to KFI AM sixty on
demand. Mary, welcome to the Jesus

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Christ Show. You know, in
all the years I have listened to you,

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I don't think anybody's called themselves a
dork on your shore before. But

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I'm a dork. I'm pretty sure
no one has. And if you looked

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up the true meaning of that word, would use it either. How can

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I how can I help you today? Mary? If you keep making the

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same bad decisions, the same ones, over and over, why would you

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forgive me again after we already know
it's wrong and we repeatedly do it.

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Well, there is a point where
that's considered to be the unpardonable sin.

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That's exactly and that's where I'm scared. Well, the only thing is that

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people that truly rebel don't care.
They don't get scared. I don't really

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rebel. I'm actually like this little
chick who you would know I would.

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I'm not a rebel in my own
sense, I am so as far as

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consequences, now, there's a differ. Friends, Let's say you rebel against

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good nutrition and there's a particular food
that you eat. There's a food that

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you eat that whether it causes you
indigestion, or it causes you whatever problems

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or whatever it might be. Well, there is built in consequences to that

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in your life that doesn't have the
same spiritual there are moral issues, father,

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and I don't particularly like my paths
at all. Well, then why

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you want it? Correct? Well, you tell me what is it about

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this path that that is so intriguing
to you or exciting because it's the only

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one I know. I have no
family, and I have no one.

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It's just kind of like it's the
So it's men. Oh there, yeah,

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they're involved. Okay, So it's
men. And is it sexual sin

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that could happen? Okay, so
it's in scripture that becomes very serious because

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hey wait, let's back up.
Let me just back up really quickly.

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This is a question I want to
know just because, Okay, in your

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time, when people were pregnant and
they got pregnant at sixteen, they met

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mister Wonderful and like to walk them
the donkey out of it. If God

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doesn't put in your path the man
you're supposed to live with, and I'm

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forty four years old, I'm just
supposed to be celibate the rest of my

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life. And just like sit there
and just it's okay. When everybody else

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around you it is like has a
family six excuses? Mary? If you're

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constantly with the wrong guy, how
could God do anything. I'm not going

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to put you in a holy headlock
and force you into something. You have

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free will. You have the abilities
just like a child that's raised from your

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birth parents. They teach you skills
and abilities and give you tools to use

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in everyday life. We're incredible that
I was just like the perfect Irish Catholic,

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perfect person, and all I wanted
was mister wonderful to I ticket fence

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and three puppy dogs and three children. That's all I wanted. I didn't

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want to live through this holy hell
every day of being alone. But why

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do you choose the men that you
choose? Why choose wrong men? Where

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do you find the other ones?
They do exist? Where did you find

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these? Where do you find the
right men? At forty four years old?

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Well, I'm curious where you found
the wrong ones? No? They

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were what bars, clubs? No, not all of them. Church.

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I wish I found them my church. No, I couldn't find them.

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I'd sit in the front row every
week and sit there and be little miss

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perfect, and I'd go to work
and everybody go. And you were speaking

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earlier about trying to be a righteous
person, and I used to have people

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walk up to me at work all
the time and say, you're so funny,

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You're so cute, you're so nice, You're just you're so good to

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people. So why did God decide
that I should be alone? He hasn't

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you have? I mean, I
wish it was easier than that. I

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wish you could blame me, but
it's not me. The truth is Mary.

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If in scripture when it talks about
being single or not being married,

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there is a specific creature like Paul, that were designed in a way that

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it wasn't a desire of theirs.
You have the desire. Therefore, if

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you thirst, there is something that
will quench that thirst. But if you

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reject the things of God and keep
taking that which is quick and easier or

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around or available, and not wait, who's to say that you're supposed to

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get married at any specific time to
begin with. That's a societal demarcation.

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So you are to wait until you
find somebody appropriate. But if you continue

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to put somebody inappropriate in your path, they'll be never. They'll never be

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an opportunity for somebody who is appropriate, and you hold on to the inappropriate

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ones too long because there's something and
you continue to do that that's not God

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at all. I'm not judging that. I just have not seen mister appropriate.

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He hasn't knocked on my door in
the last and he won't. You

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know, there's the type of person
that walks around going you know what,

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I'm waiting for my ship to come
in. And there's people that cut down

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trees, tie them together and make
a raft. Okay, but why are

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there people? Why are there people
who get married to the loves or the

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lives at eighteen and lead like a
blissful life, And there are other of

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us who have gone through basically hell
and we still sit here just going okay,

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that doesn't seem fair. I know
life's not fair, but explain that

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one. Why Why isn't life fair? I'm not sure what you would decide

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is fair or not fair. It
seems that what you decide is fair or

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not fair is based on what Mary
wants and what Mary gets, which is

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a little more of the Aruk assault
type theology from Willy Wonka than it is

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biblical and I am so not that
person and you don't even know me.

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But Mary, you focus on Mary. If you learn to enjoy your own

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company and the things in life that
are fruitful to you, and you explore

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those things. Let's say you like
reading, and you explore those things and

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you're around places where there's books,
then you will find people of similar desires.

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But the quest cannot be for a
man anymore than the quest for a

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man is for a woman. This
is what confuses me. Men will look

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for adventure and a quest, and
then a woman becomes the adventure in the

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quest, and when they have the
woman, then they're disappointed because the quest

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is over. The woman is not
the quest. The woman is another adventurer

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in the quest of life, your
partner. And it's this kind of skewed

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thinking that ends up getting people in
trouble and it makes you start to feel

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like you're being singled out. But
the fact of the matter is that you're

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just as desirable as anyone else,
that there is plenty not one man for

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you, but there are plenty of
that type of man that would be good,

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that would suit you, that would
be fitting for you. But you

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continue to pass and by for the
ones that want to have sex, that

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don't care, that don't have your
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your same ideas, or at least
similar enough as far as their faith,

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to be someone that would propel you, that would allow you to shine and

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be one hundred percent who you are. And that doesn't always come quickly,

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but people keep wanting it, or
worse, feeling they deserve it. Crime

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and everything bad in the world happens
because entitlement. People feel entitled to something.

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The man stealing, the woman stealing
feels they're entitled to whatever it is,

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regardless of working, having money,
or any of those things. Don't

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get in that mindset of entitlement,
Mary, if you come to a place

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of entitlement, you've lost it.
Now. If you continue to make bad

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decisions in this particular case, Mary, the consequence is the consequence. You

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continue to find people that are not
good for you and to give them,

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give yourself to them. There's going
to be problems, there's going to be

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big problems. And you give a
little bit of yourself each time to these

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people, and there's less of you
to give to the right guy that you're

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so focused on obtaining live life,
Mary, enjoy yourself, do things you

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enjoy, expand yourself, learn,
explore life, and you'll bump into other

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explorers. Sit in your house and
you'll sit with Mary. Monday, Tuesday,

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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Get out,

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explore, live life and others will
follow. Andrew, Welcome to the Jesus

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Christ Show. Oh Jesus, Is
it a sin for a divorce person to

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marry? It can be, yes, it depends on the circumstance. And

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now understand that throughout the entirety of
scripture, there's nothing that says that divorce

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is a good thing. As a
matter of fact, throughout scripture it says

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that God hates divorce. But there
are situations where it is okay. And

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you if you remember Paul speaking about
it is better to marry than it is

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to burn, and that means burn
with lust, not like you're in hell

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or something. But so there's a
point where you have to factor that in

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and say, if you are a
divorced person and you're going through a state

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of lust, it's better. If
you are a very sexual person and you

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keep having that reoccurring in your life, then that it is better for you

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to gird that in the proper concept
and content of a relationship than it is

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to just let it run wild.
What is your particular situation, Andrew?

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My wife just walked out on me, so she didn't want to continue the

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marriage, so we just ended it. Did you know that if she had

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an affair or not? I'm not
sure that. How long were you guys

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together? About seven months? Wow, that is a that's a very short

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marriage there. How long did you
guys know each other before you got married?

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About it year and a half.
What do you think went wrong?

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Andrew? What it was? She's
a foreigner and she used me for the

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green card to get here. But
that's not long enough. Seven months isn't

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long enough. No, so it
doesn't help her at all. No,

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Well, if did you know that
going into the situation, now she's using

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me for the green card? No, you didn't have any inkling about that.

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No, why don't you just get
the marriage and all? Well,

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that's what I'm doing, but by
law, it's it's pretty difficult to prove

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to do it. Yeah, there's
a good highly chance I can lose the

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annulment. M Well, in the
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that that if you are going into
marriage with with the idea of divorce being

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an option, that it just becomes
a problem. People get lost in well,

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I can do this and then I
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everything becomes temporary. What I don't
want you to go into marriage is thinking

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that it's like a dixie cup and
it can be thrown away. And that's

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why divorces is so abhorrent to God. But there is an understanding, and

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if somebody breaches the contract and you're
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then there is always the possibility and
the option for remarriage. But I wouldn't

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recommend getting remarried anytime soon. Andrew, obviously there's not anybody in your life,

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correct. No, I don't have
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couple. I just want to know
what a certain stance. That's a pretty

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controversial question. And during the year
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whether the relationship was real or not. No, I loved her very much,

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and I could have been some signs
I just didn't really notice. It

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gets difficult sometimes. The key is
to not be blinded. Love is a

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wonderful thing and a very powerful thing. Andrew, but it's also something that

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can As they say, love is
blind and you should keep your senses about

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you during the process if you find
somebody, and I would recommend spending a

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lot of time to get to know
yourself and why you would choose somebody like

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that, and how you got so
far in a relationship that really was synthetic.

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I would definitely focus in on that
before I got into any relationship whatsoever

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with the opposite sex. Angel.
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Jesus,

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It's an honor to talk to you. My pleasure. How can I

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help you? Thanks. I would
like to know if it bothers you if

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I were a cross around my neck, because will Some friends have asked me

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why do I do it? If
it was the instrument of your so I

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told them that I was going to
ask you and see what you have to

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say about this is It has become
very fashionable to some people. I know

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Madonna and others have used it as
as just a kutman and then in the

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Christian world there are many that use
it as a symbol to remind them of

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their faith and the price that was
paid. And that's a lovely sentiment.

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I know some churches get upset and
say, you know, you shouldn't have

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anything or any graven image of any
kind, and and it wasn't what took

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place in the cross. And you've
got you know, Catholics and Protestants,

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you know, one wears a cross, one wears a crucifix, and you've

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got them saying, why would you, you know, show the death.

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Anybody could die on the cross.
People did next to me, if you

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remember the thieves. So it's not
about dying on the cross. It's about

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the resurrection. And there's those that
my producer Neil's always walking around with a

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smirk on his face saying, how
come Christians don't have the empty tomb around

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their neck? That makes more sense. But the fact is, for your

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purposes, it simply reminds you of
the price that was paid. Correct,

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Yes, yes, well actually it
was given by my grandfather when I did

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my first commune and when I was
eleven years old. Yes, and I

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have been learning it since. Yes. So it ties into the dedication of

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your faith and that has become an
important part to you. And it's fine,

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that's what it means to you.
That is absolutely fine. It was

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a means of torture. Absolutely,
as a matter of fact, the term

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excruciating, it's excruciatingly painful. That
term actually comes from the word cruse or

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cross comes from the death on the
cross, the word excruciating. So I

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understand that your friend was trying to
point out that it was an instrument of

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death, but to Christians, it
was an instrument of life. It was

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the doorway in the physical life of
death. That was a public way of

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showing that I was going to overcome
that death on earth in a way that

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would free those that believe for eternity. And if it's some people may just

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wear it as well it's a pretty
symbol, or it was given to me,

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or what have you. But if
it's something that is tied into your

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faith, you hold on to it
and you enjoy it for what it is.

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Sometimes people get caught up in the
specifics of things and start thinking,

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oh, well, the law says
this or scripture says this. Well,

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those laws are there to protect from
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of worship. I've met people that
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or that it is somehow it is
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to that point. You have issues, there's problems, and I don't want

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it to be in your life because
it becomes overpowered. It overshadows me and

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the death and the cross. But
if it's just something lovely that's a reminder,

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or an heirloom, or something passed
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or what have you, nothing wrong
with that, Andy, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ. Hi, Jesus,
Hi, Andy. I have a question

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that's been concerning me about my face. Me and my mom, we differ

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in the way we have our points
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moved out to a five acre parcel
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area here in southern California, and
I hardly ever rained. We live on

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a well, and when we first
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flowers too, And I said,
mother, shouldn't we be a little bit

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more resourceful with our water? We
do live on a well. It's not,

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you know, infinitely abundant. And
she said, oh no, oh,

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no, God's going to provide.
And I said, well, that's

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fine, and I'm pretty sure he
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shouldn't we conserve? And she said
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God will provide. I said,
okay, that's fine, so we

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keep planning. Eventually the well went
dry. I mean there's water back now,

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but it went dry for a couple
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went to this whole state of panic, and I said, no,

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no, there's no need. You
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nothing to do with God. It's
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a while it's not abundant, has
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question is do we want because she
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says so. So is that so
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says, oh, only God will
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he wants me to do. But
the way I asked you it is,

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I think he says, well,
whenever you're ready, i'll take step for

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step with you, and I have
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until you're ready to take that step. And she says, no, we

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cannot take a step until God allows. So that's the question I have.

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Well, there's in It's it's not
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there's scripture. You know. Even
earlier we talked about Proverbs twenty one to

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twenty in the house of the whys
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But a foolish man devours all he
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being done correct right, So it's
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wise steward of that which you have. And in the case of somebody who

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overly spiritualizes everything, you have to
remember this handy God puts you on earth

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first. Now, Earth is not
the perfect world. It's the best way

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to the perfect world, which is
Heaven. But you're here because God says

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so, and there's a practical method
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do. You would never put a
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and say God will provide me protection
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wouldn't do that would be stupid,
and you die. So the way there's

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a difference between trusting God and tempting
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you are to use them, and
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is your brain. It says in
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your heart, all your soul,
and all of your intellect. So your

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mind is a tool and you were
using it. You were saying, no,

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God's giving me this tool to think, and I'm looking over the situation

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and I don't think this is a
practical way. Now aprop in something that

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is more providing in nature, meaning
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water from the well and trust that
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different. You have to drink it. But just going well, we want

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flowers, or we want this,
or we want that. That becomes a

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state of pride and vanity, that
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want them, and that you're saying, well, God, you you cover

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the text on this, you cover
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it works. And so in the
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she actually, you know, being
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going against the very word of God. And that happens. You know,

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people do that and wanting to follow
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are breaking down the law and going
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be wise with that which you have. And if you only have a little

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bit, you know, it's flowers
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a little bit over here would be
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there. But understand that you have
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well, you know what, we're
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I'd like to go see a movie
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isn't that. A movie's not necessary. Flowers aren't necessary. God provides what

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you need when you need it,
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And uh so be patient because what
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their love and their deep faith.
But you, guys, are a family

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and your balance is there for a
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way in love and respect to offer
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this, how about we compromise and
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something that is pretty but retains its
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you know, split the difference a
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it's not always in logic. It's
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either or. Sometimes there's either or, and okay, we we're not going

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to plant all the flowers, but
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flowers or this, uh succulent or
cactus or something that that is not going

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to need the watering so that your
mom gets the joy, which there's nothing

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wrong with having joy and the beauty
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balance understanding that you are economizing and
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Well, thank you very much for
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a blessed day you as well.
Andy. There is a balance in all

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things, and throughout scripture you'll find
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theme is is that God loves a
proper balance. You'll see that throughout when

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it talks about merchants in Proverbs.
But the imagery there is specifically dealing with

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merchants talking about the scales that they
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what's being purchased. Right, so
you get, you know, the image

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of someone putting a rock in there
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more, and then the image of
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the scale so that it weighs less
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And that God abhors that. You
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recycling started becoming popular in the early
early eighties and people were filling their cans

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aluminum cans with sand or with rocks, and then crushing them, then stomping

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on them so that each can was
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how you get paid. And it's
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they've changed the methods now to fend
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attitude about the false balance is a
great illustration about how you live your life

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spiritually. You're here on earth for
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don't be so heavenly minded, you're
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The reason why I came in the
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about some of the miracles that took
place when I multiplied the fish and the

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loafs. What did I say,
pick up the crumbs? Doesn't that seem

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strange If I'm about to produce this
miracle, if I'm about to feed thousands,

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don't you think I could pick up
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fail swoop, some wave of the
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course, the purpose was to have
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the practicality of what needed to be
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When I raised the girl from the
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to eat. The same thing applies. I could have filled her stomach.

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But you have to be here in
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are practical things that need to be
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put you on earth for a reason
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things to be learned, things to
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I will be at the end of
the rope. But don't just constantly

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pull to the end of the rope
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God's going to provide. That's not
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things you're gonna have to learn,
and there's going to be times where you

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will run out if you are not
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are to tend to the field,
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you are to tend to your finances. That commandment goes throughout the entirety of

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scripture. And be a good steward
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to do, and I will be
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the Jesus Christ. Show hi Jesus, I got a question. Sure,

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listen. I'm of the Pagan faith. I have been just about all of

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my life. My family's taken most
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split between Pagan and Irish Catholic.
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a Catholic church, Like I don't. I just feel the need to.

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I don't know if that makes any
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the need to. I don't know. Maybe it's turn around my life.

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Maybe I'm just getting older. I
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to. Do you have to be
Catholic to go? Do you? I

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mean, can you just show up? Do you have to make it a

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point of no? Nope, and
don't don't partake in a church that ever

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makes you do that. See,
I didn't know that. I'm not familiar

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with that or anything. I've gone
to churches before, I've listened to your

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show before, you know, so
I'm not completely in the dark about anything

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Christian or Christianity period or Catholicism.
I just didn't know about that specifically.

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churches can be a little intimidating, and

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Catholicism is very structured and sometimes people
fear that, but really that's it's a

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beautiful thing. That structure can be
very empowering and it can be very helpful.

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So if you find a church in
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attend, the biggest important thing is
to go when the time says to go.

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So whenever the service or the mass
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that time and find a place where
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that in the Catholic Church they're going
to ask that you don't participate in certain

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things like taking communion and that type
of thing. But as far as experiencing

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and learning and asking questions, absolutely
you should be welcoming any church. And

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the process is that when people are
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or they are a member of a
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want you to participate, you know, if it's something you feel led or

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moved to do and participate whether it's
with you know, children or what have

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you as you get involved in a
church. But if you're just seeking and

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are curious and want to ask questions
or want to sit and be left alone

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and just kind of you know,
soak up things, yeah, you should

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be you should walk into any church. You know, there was a there

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was a day where churches were open
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in and were silent if there wasn't
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and you just prayed. And so
I want you to feel welcome wherever you

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go. And keep in mind that
God's people at times are very open,

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and which they should be, and
if sometimes they're closed, which they shouldn't

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be, but don't hold that against
me. Please be open to receive whatever

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you can as you walk in and
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that particular time. Okay, well, well the part of the thing is

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is that I was passing by and
it was like you passed by churches all

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the time, but it just for
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to pull in there and I didn't. But I'm going to And that's why

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I wanted to find out, because
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reason, like no at all.
You're absolutely right. I'm knocking on that

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door of your heart, but it
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But I'm going to ask you something, Stacy. I want you to do

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that, if you're feeling that,
to do that, I want you to

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do that, but I want you
to call back or contact me and give

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us a call when you go,
because I'd love to hear about your experience,

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good or bad. Okay, okay, all right, excellent. Then

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I expect to hear back from you. That's wonderful. I love hearing that

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that people are motivated to try something
new, and you should always be welcome

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in the church. Kf I am
six forty on demand