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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, I really want to use it either.

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How can I how can I help
you today? Mary? If you

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keep making the same bad decisions,
the same ones, over and over,

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why would you forgive me again after
we already know it's wrong and we repeatedly

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do it. Well, there is
a point where that's considered to be the

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unpardonable sin. That's exactly, and
that's where I'm scared. Well, the

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only thing is is that people that
truly rebel don't care. They don't get

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scared. I don't really rebel.
I'm actually like this little chick who you

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would know I would. I'm not
a rebel in my own sense, I

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am so as far as consequences,
now, there's a difference. Let's say

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

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a food that you eat that whether
it causes you indigestion, or it causes

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you whatever problems or whatever it might
be. Well, there is built in

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consequences to that in your life that
doesn't have the same spiritual there are moral

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issues, father, and I don't
particularly like my paths at all. Well,

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then why you want it? Correct? Well, you tell me what

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is it about this path that that
is so intriguing to you or exciting because

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it's the only one I know.
I have no family, I have no

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

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

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sexual sin that could happen? Okay, so it's it's in scripture that becomes

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very serious because hey wait, let's
back up. Let me just back up

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really quick. Okay, this it's
a question I want to know just because

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Okay, in your time, when
people were pregnant and they got pregnant at

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sixteen, they met mister Wonderful,
and MI like, walk them the donkey

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out of it. If God doesn't
put in your path the man you're supposed

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to live with, and I'm forty
four years old, I'm just supposed to

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be celibates the rest of my life
and just like sit there and just it's

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okay. When everybody else around you, it's like, has a family excuses

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Mary? If you're constantly with the
wrong guy, how could God do anything?

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I'm not going to put you in
a holy headlock and force you into

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something. You have free will.
You have the abilities just like a child

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that's raised from your birth parents.
They teach you skills and abilities and give

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you tools to use in everyday life. We're incredible at that is just like

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the perfect Irish Catholic, perfect person. And all I wanted was mister wonderful

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to white picket fence and three puppy
dogs and three children. That's all I

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wanted. I didn't want to live
through this holy hell every day of being

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alone. But why do you choose
the men that you choose? Why choose

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wrong men? Where do you find
the other ones? They do exist?

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Where did you find these? Where
do you find the right men? At

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forty four years old? Well,
I'm serious? Where you found the wrong

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ones? No? They were what
bars? Clubs? No, not all

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of them. Church. I wish
I found them my church. No,

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I couldn't find them. I'd sit
in the front row every week and sit

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there and be little miss perfect.
And I'd go to work and everybody go.

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And you were speaking earlier about trying
to be a righteous person, and

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I used to have people walk up
to me at work all the time and

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say, you're so fun, You're
so cute, you're so nice, You're

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just you're so good to people.
So why did God decide that I should

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be alone? He hasn't you have? I mean, I wish it was

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easier than that. I wish you
could blame me, but it's not me.

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The truth is Mary. If in
scripture when it talks about being single

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or not being married, there is
a specific creature like Paul, that were

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designed in a way that it wasn't
a desire of theirs. You have the

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desire. Therefore, if you thirst, there is something that will quench that

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thirst. But if you reject the
things of God and keep taking that which

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is quick and easy or around or
available, and not wait, who's to

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say that you're supposed to get married
at any specific time to begin with.

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That's a societal demarcation. So you
are to wait until you find somebody appropriate.

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But if you continue to put somebody
inappropriate in your path, they'll be

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never They'll never be an opportunity for
somebody who is appropriate, And you hold

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on to the inappropriate ones too long
because there's something and you continue to do

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that that's not God at all.
I'm not judging that. I just have

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not seen mister appropriate. He hasn't
knocked on my door in the last and

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he won't. You know, there's
the type of person that walks around going,

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you know what, I'm waiting for
my ship to come in. And

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there's people that cut down trees,
tie them together and make a raft.

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Okay, but why are there people? Why are there people who get married

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to the loves or the lives at
eighteen and lead like a blissful life,

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And there are other of us who
have gone through basically hell and we still

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sit here just going okay, that
doesn't seem fair. I know life's not

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fair, but explain that one.
Why Why isn't life fair? I'm not

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sure what you would decide it is
fair or not fair. It seems that

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what you decide is fair or not
fair is based on what Mary wants and

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what Mary gets, which is a
little more of the Aruk assault type theology

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from Willy Wonka than it is biblical
and I am so not that person,

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and you don't even know me,
but Mary, you focus on Mary.

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If you learn to enjoy your own
company and the things in life that are

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

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and you explore those things and you're
around places where there's books, then

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you will find people of similar desires. But the quest cannot be for a

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man anymore than the quest for a
man is for a woman. This is

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what confuses me. Men will look
for adventure and a quest, and then

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a woman becomes the adventure in the
quest, and when they have the woman,

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then they're disappointed because the quest is
over. The woman is not the

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quest. The woman is is another
adventurer in the quest of life, your

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partner. And it's this kind of
skewed thinking that ends up getting people in

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trouble and it makes you start to
feel like you're being singled out. But

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the fact of the matter is that
you're just as desirable as anyone else,

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that there is plenty not one man
for you, but there are plenty of

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that type of man that would be
good, that would suit you, that

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would be fitting for you. But
you continue to pass and by for the

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ones that want to have sex,
that don't care, that don't have your

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same religious affiliation, your same worldview, your same ideas, or at least

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similar enough as far as their faith
to be someone that would propel you,

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that would allow you to shine and
to be one hundred percent who you are.

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And that doesn't always come quickly,
but people keep wanting it, or

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worse, feeling they deserve it.
Crime and everything bad in the world happens

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because entitlement. People feel entitled to
something. The man stealing, the woman

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stealing feels they're entitled to whatever it
is, regardless of working, having money,

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or any of those things. Don't
get in that mindset of entitlement,

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Mary, if you come to a
place of entitlement, you've lost it.

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Now. If you continue to make
bad decisions in this particular case, Mary,

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the consequence is the consequence. You
continue to find people that are not

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good for you and to give them, give yourself to them. There's going

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to be problems, there's going to
be big problems. And you give a

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little bit of yourself each time to
these people, and there's less of you

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to give to the right guy.
That you're so focused on obtaining live life

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Mary. Enjoy yourself, do things
you enjoy, expand yourself, learn,

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explore life and you'll bump into other
explorers. Sit in your house and you'll

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sit with Mary. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

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and Sunday. Get out, explore
live life and others will follow.

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Andrew, Welcome to the Jesus Christ
Show. Oh Jesus, Is it a

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sin for a divorce person to marry? It can be, yes, It

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depends on the circumstance. And now
understand that throughout the entirety of scripture,

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there's nothing that says that divorce is
a good thing. As a matter of

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fact, throughout scripture it says that
God hates divorce. But there are situations

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where it is okay. And if
you remember all speaking about it is better

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to marry than it is to burn, and that means burn with lust,

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not like you're in hell or something. But so there's a point where you

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have to factor that in and say, if you are a divorced person and

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you're going through a state of lust, it's better. If you are a

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very sexual person and you keep having
that reoccurring in your life, then that

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it is better for you to gird
that in the proper concept and content of

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a relationship than it is to just
let it run wild. What is your

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particular situation, Andrew? My wife
just walked out on me, so she

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didn't want to continue the marriage,
so we just ended it. Did you

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know that if she had an affair
or not? I'm not sure that.

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How long were you guys together?
About seven months? Wow, that is

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a very short marriage there. How
long did you guys know each other before

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you got married? About a year
and a half. What do you think

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went wrong? Andrew? What it
was? She's a foreigner and she used

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me for the green card to get
here. But that's not long enough.

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

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No, Well, if did you
know that going into the situation,

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now she's using me for the green
card. No, you didn't have any

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inkling about that. No, why
don't you just get the marriage and all?

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Well, that's what I'm doing,
but by law, it's it's pretty

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difficult to prove to do it.
Yeah, there's a good, highly chance

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I can lose the annulment. Well, in the eyes of God, the

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concern here is that that if you
are going into marriage with the idea of

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divorce being an option, that it
just becomes a problem. People get lost

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and well, I can do this
and then I can get out of it

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and everything becomes temporary. What I
don't want you to go into marriage is

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

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that's why divorces is so abhorrent to
God. But there is an understanding,

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and if somebody breaches the contract and
you're not the one that breached the contract,

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then there is always the possibility and
the option for remarriage. But I

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wouldn't recommend getting remarried anytime soon.
Andrew. Obviously there's not anybody in your

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life, correct. No, I
don't have any plans. I just had

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a couple of bit I just want
to know what a certainstance. Pretty controversial

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question. And during the year and
a half you didn't notice anything about whether

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the relationship was real or not.
No, I loved her very much,

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and I could have been some sign
that just didn't really notice. It gets

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

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

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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 round my neck, because well, some friends have asked

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me why do I do it?
It was the instrument of your death.

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

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

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I know Madonna and others have used
it as as just a kutman and then

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in the Christian world there are many
that use it as a symbol to remind

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them of their faith and the price
that was paid, and that's a lovely

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sentiment. I know some churches get
upset and say, you know, you

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shouldn't have anything or any graven image
of any kind. And and it wasn't

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

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Protestants, you know, one wears
a cross, one wears a crucifix,

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and you've got them saying, why
would you, you know, show the

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

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

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It's about the resurrection. And there's
those that my producer Neil's always walking around

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with a smirk on his face saying, how come Christians don't have the empty

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tomb around their neck? That makes
more sense. But the fact is,

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

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

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

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and I have been learning it.
Yes, So it ties into the dedication

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

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

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was it was a means of torture
absolutely. As a matter of fact,

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

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cruse or cross comes from the death
on the cross, the word excruciating.

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So I understand that your friend was
trying to point out that it was an

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

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

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

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

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may just wear it as well it's
a pretty symbol, or it was given

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to me, or what have you. But if it's something that is tied

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into your faith, you hold on
to it and you enjoy it for what

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it is. Sometimes people get caught
up in the specifics of things and start

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thinking, oh, well, the
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Well, those laws are there to
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a point of worship. I've met
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their neck, or that it is
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it gets to that point, you
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don't want it to be in your
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me and the death and the Cross. But if it's just something lovely that's

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a reminder, or an heirloom,
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families, or what have you,
nothing wrong with that, Andy, Welcome

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to the Jesus Christ. Hi,
Jesus, Hi. Andy. I have

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a question that's been concerning me about
my faith. Me and my mom,

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we differ in the way we have
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just recently moved out to a five
acre parcel here in a It's a pretty

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dry aired area here in southern California, and I already ever rains. We

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live on a well, and when
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all these flowers too, And I
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little bit more resourceful with our water? We do live on a well.

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It's not, you know, infinitely
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oh, no, God's going to
provide. And I said, well

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that's fine, and I'm pretty sure
he will, but you know, still,

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shouldn't we conserve? And she said, no, no, no,

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don't worry. God will provide.
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so we keep planning. Eventually the
well went dry. I mean there's

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water back now, but it went
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was just like, I went into
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said, no, no, there's
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think it's that has nothing to do
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that we live on a while it's
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and so my question is do we
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can happen until God says so.
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do something, she says, oh, only God will allow me to do

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that, if that's what he wants
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actually it is, I think he
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i'll take step for step with you, and I have the road paid for

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you, but only until you're ready
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no, we cannot take a step
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question I have. Well, there's
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she's wrong, but there's scripture,
you know, even Earlier we talked about

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Proverbs twenty one to twenty In the
house of the whys are stores of choice,

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food and oil. But a foolish
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is essentially what was being done.
Correct. So it's there's scripture that talks

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about being a wise steward of that
which you have. And in the case

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of somebody who overly spiritualizes everything,
you have to remember this handy God puts

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you on earth first. Now,
Earth is not the perfect world. It's

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the best way to the perfect world, which is Heaven. But you're here

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because God says so, and there's
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things you can't do. You would
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bullets in it and say God will
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head. You wouldn't do that.
That would be stupid, and you die.

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So the way there's a difference between
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if you have tools, you are
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tools you are to use is your
brain. It says in scripture that you're

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to love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all of

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your intellect. So your your mind
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it. You were saying, no, God's giving me this tool to think,

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and I'm looking over the situation and
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way. Now in aprop in something
that is more providing in nature, meaning

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you know, we have to drink
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God will put more in it.
That's different. You have to drink it.

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But just going well, we want
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or we want that. That becomes
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you want things certain way the way
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well, God, you cover the
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rest. And that's not the way
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manner that she was approaching this,
she actually, you know, being a

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loving godly woman, she actually was
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And that happens, you know,
people do that in wanting to follow the

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letter of the law, they actually
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of the law. You need to
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flowers in the like may bring joy
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be a good idea or a little
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have limitations. It's the same as
going, well, you know what,

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we're almost broke, but you know
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movie and God will provide. No, this isn't that. A movie's not

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necessary. Flowers aren't necessary. God
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not what you want when you want
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your your parents do come out of
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you, guys, are a family, and your balance is there for a

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purpose, and you have to find
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correction or other ideas, or how
about this, how about we compromise and

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we get you know, some succulent
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water longer, and uh therefore,
well, you know, split the difference

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a little bit. Be smart.
So it's not always in logic. It's

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called a faulty dilemma if you have
just either or. Sometimes there's either or,

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and okay, we we're not going
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we're going to plant a small amount
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or something that that is not going
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gets the joy, which there's nothing
wrong with having joy and you of God's

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creation, but also there's a balance
understanding that you are economizing and saving water

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conserving because of the situation. Well, thank you very much for answering my

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questions, and you have a blessed
day you as well. Andy. There

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is a balance in all things,
and throughout scripture you'll find that to be

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a theme. And the theme is
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You'll see that throughout when it talks
about merchants in Proverbs. But the imagery

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there is specifically dealing with merchants,
talking about the scales that they use to

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weigh whatever the product was or what's
being purchased. Right, so you get,

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you know, the image of someone
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it heavier so that you pay more, and then the image of the person

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buying it putting their hand under the
scale so that it weighs less so they

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don't have to pay us more.
And that God abhors that. You know.

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There was a day when recycling started
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and people were filling their cans,
aluminum cans with sand or with rocks,

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and then crushing them, then stomping
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because they weigh it by the pound. How you get paid. And it's

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not like they just count them.
Now they've changed the methods now to fend

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off that kind of person. But
that attitude about the false balance is a

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great illustration about how you live your
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a reason. There's an old saying, don't be so heavenly minded, you're

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no earthly good. There's a balance. The reason why I came in the

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flesh was to show that balance.
Think about some of the miracles that took

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place when I multiplied the fish and
the loafs. What did I say,

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pick up the crumbs? Doesn't that
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miracle, if I'm about to feed
thousands, don't you think I could pick

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up the crumbs too, all in
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wand some twinkle of the nose.
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the disciples there in the moment to
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done. Picking up the prumb the
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the dead, I said, get
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applies. I could have filled her
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in the now, in the practical. There are practical things that need to

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be done. Don't be caught up. I put you on earth for a

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reason and not directly into heaven.
There are things to be learned, things

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to be understood, and there are
practical things. I will be at the

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end of the rope. But don't
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rope and say God's going to be
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not the way it works. There
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and there's going to be times where
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not a good steward of those things. You are to tend to the field,

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you are to tend to your home, you are to tend to your

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finances. That commandment goes throughout the
entirety of scripture. And be a good

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steward to these things. That's what
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be there with you. Stacy,
Welcome to the Jesus Christ show. Hi,

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Jesus, I got a question.
Sure, listen. I'm of the

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Pagan faith. I have been just
about all of my life. My family's

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taken most of them are and some
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Catholic. But I've been wanting to
go to like a Catholic church, Like

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I don't. I just feel the
need to. I don't know if that

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makes any sense, of course,
I just feel the need to. I

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don't know. Maybe it's turn around
my life. Maybe I'm just getting older.

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I don't know. I just feel
the need to. Do you have

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to be Catholic to go? Do
you? I mean, can you just

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show up? Do you have to
make a point of no? Nope,

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and don't don't partake in a church
that ever makes you do that. See,

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I didn't know that. I'm not
familiar with that or anything. I've

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gone to churches before, I've listened
to your show before, you know,

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so I'm not completely in the dark
about anything Christian or Christianity period, or

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was Catholicism. I just didn't know
about that specifically. No, you go

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up or sometimes churches can be a
little intimidating, and Catholicism is very structured

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and sometimes people fear that, but
really that's it's a beautiful thing. That

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structure can be very empowering and it
can be very helpful. So if you

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find a church in your local area
that you want to attend, the biggest

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important thing is to go when it
when the time says to go, So

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whenever the service or the mass is, you want to go during that time

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and find a place where you can
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the Catholic Church they're going to ask
that you don't participate in certain things like

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

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

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is that when people are you know, a member of a parish or they

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are a member of a church,
or at that point, I want you

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to participate, you know, if
it's something you feel led or moved to

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

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

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and want to ask questions or want
to sit and be left alone and just

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kind of you know, soak up
things, yeah, you should be You

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

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day where churches were open twenty four
to seven and you just walked in and

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were silent. If they're wasn't a
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you just prayed. And so I
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And keep in mind that God's people
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which they should be, and if
sometimes they're closed, which they shouldn't be,

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

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can as you walk in and see
what God is saying to you at that

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particular time. Okay, well,
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that I was passing by and it
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time, but it just for some
reason, like something was telling me to

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pull in there and I didn't.
But I'm going to And that's why I

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

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of your heart, but it opens
on your side, not mine. But

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I'm going to ask you something,
Stacy. I want you to do that

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

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but I want you to call back
or contact me and give us a

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

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or bad. Okay, all right, excellent. Then I expect to hear

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back from you. That's wonderful.
I love hearing that that people are motivated

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to try something new, and you
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