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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Jack, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good morning, Hi there so far, first time listener

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Speaker 2: to this radio program. It was referred to me during

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Speaker 2: a few of the podcast Los Angeles and tuning in

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Speaker 2: and so far, like in two things that I've heard

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Speaker 2: that I've been able to connect to you. One is

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Speaker 2: kind of the outside perimeter of what the church has

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Speaker 2: looked like versus the inside activity and behaviors when they're

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Speaker 2: leaving there and away from there.

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Speaker 3: And I'm finding.

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Speaker 2: Myself in a really good relationship at one point had

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Speaker 2: just some very deep friendship and a very long laughing

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Speaker 2: life with a pregnancy. Even though unmarried and in a

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Speaker 2: religious difference, there was still a very common ground there

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Speaker 2: and now that it's getting closer to first just kind

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Speaker 2: of one and maybe an approach to have a religious

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Speaker 2: and non religious parents for weekend activity or daily activity

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Speaker 2: with church versus maybe working on a project at the house.

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Speaker 2: Both kind of have the same ending and meaning in life.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to push my ground, and I

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Speaker 2: don't think that other that she would want to for

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Speaker 2: sure stance of making somebody do this and that, So sure.

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Speaker 1: This becomes difficult. So I'm assuming you're the one that's not.

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Speaker 3: I grew up on a very religious background. I understand

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Speaker 3: a lot of the U you know, just a lot

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Speaker 3: of Christianity that around it. My mom and family are

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Speaker 3: still very involved in the church at a very advanced level,

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Speaker 3: and so that part of that I get and I

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Speaker 3: see them do it where as an individual versus the group,

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Speaker 3: and then when I go into the group setting, maybe

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Speaker 3: I don't care. I just don't get out of it.

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Speaker 3: I do as an individual.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what what?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Do you like any

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Speaker 1: other group activities?

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Speaker 2: There's just you know, work activities and old personal hobbies

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Speaker 2: that I like to do with a golf group or

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Speaker 2: a tennis group, or just even a project hobby with

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Speaker 2: some friends and their kids, making little birdhouses or something

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Speaker 2: on the weekend, just.

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Speaker 1: Like working with your hands apparently. But why do you

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Speaker 1: think it's different when you're in a church.

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Speaker 2: Maybe because I see a lot, I hear all the

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Speaker 2: great ways of life, but I don't see it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, think of it this way. If you're in

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Speaker 1: a garage and they're going to talk about all the

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Speaker 1: you know, great types of cars and how wonderful cars

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Speaker 1: are everything, But every car in that garage is being

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Speaker 1: worked on, so you're not going to see the cars

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Speaker 1: really souped up necessarily until they leave. Okay, So it's

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Speaker 1: kind of maybe expectations are part of the problem there,

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Speaker 1: and what the function of the church is. I think

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Speaker 1: perception is very important and when you go in thinking

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Speaker 1: it's going to be one thing. Yeah, churches is a

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Speaker 1: turn off many times. Anyways, it just is it's a

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Speaker 1: really hard concept to swallow when you've got some imperfect

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Speaker 1: guy or gal standing from the pulpit preaching or teaching something,

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Speaker 1: and all you can think and all people do is

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Speaker 1: kind of reflect off of this person and say, ah,

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Speaker 1: either they've got issues, or this person next to me

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Speaker 1: has issues and I'm not like that, or this just

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Speaker 1: seems phony. Up here comes the hat again. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: gotta throw more money in here, and they're gonna tell

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Speaker 1: me twenty minutes as to why I need to put

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Speaker 1: money in here and all that. I get that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of the crust of the experience that isn't

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Speaker 1: so wonderful. However, you get through that. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that have that experience that you blow through

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Speaker 1: whether it's going to an amusement park, whether I mean

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Speaker 1: or that, but you get through it because there's a

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Speaker 1: benefit or a payoff there, and I would hate for

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Speaker 1: you to miss the benefit of the payoff just because

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Speaker 1: of the the barnacles of the experience.

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Speaker 2: I see the benefit of what we're doing with our kid,

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Speaker 2: and I just want to make sure that there's a

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Speaker 2: that because maybe I don't go, or I wouldn't go

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Speaker 2: and now maybe so I still want to respect that,

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Speaker 2: but at the same time, I want to just kind

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Speaker 2: respected from the religious side too, to see that what

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Speaker 2: I'm doing has the same impact with our child as

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Speaker 2: going to church every Sunday. Well, there's nothing from the

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Speaker 2: religious sides of the Sure, yeah.

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of ways. Don't don't get stuck into

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Speaker 1: just the building with the your pretty windows. That's not

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Speaker 1: the point. It's not just about that structure there. There's

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't like hearing the term neutral when it comes

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Speaker 1: to raising the child. When you have to find neutral

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Speaker 1: ground in this sense, it really is neutral. Is is

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Speaker 1: like in a car, since we're on car analogies for

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Speaker 1: some reason today, it's not you're not going to move

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Speaker 1: forward or backward really unless the you're on a hill

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Speaker 1: or something like that. And I don't think it's fair

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Speaker 1: you really are wishy washy on things to try and

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Speaker 1: make everybody happy. I think you make a decision the

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Speaker 1: two of you as parents on how you're going to

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Speaker 1: kid and if if you're going to raise them without God,

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Speaker 1: then rais them without God. If you're going to raise

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Speaker 1: them with God, raise them with God. But it kind

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Speaker 1: of neutral, weird, kind of I'd rather be home but

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Speaker 1: building a you know, a birdhouse than actually working on

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, yeah, yeah, you're right. The kid will be

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Speaker 2: raised with God, and I'm fine with that. I just

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Speaker 2: would think that on the mandating Christian side that there

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Speaker 2: for a family for a day and not no breakfast, no,

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Speaker 2: and race off to a religious group. Maybe we can

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Speaker 2: have a day of independence with the family with the

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Speaker 2: same godly meaning.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's possible. I hear it in your voice. You

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Speaker 1: want to do everything you can to stay out of

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Speaker 1: that church. I understand that.

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Speaker 2: Well, because I see a church on the beach. I

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Speaker 2: see it group of fifty people on the beach, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's a great spiritual way to go learn

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Speaker 2: about God.

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Speaker 1: It absolutely can, It absolutely can. But don't fall into

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Speaker 1: the fear. No, that's not a You can worship God

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Speaker 1: any way you see fit. You really can, and there

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Speaker 1: is a lot of leeway in scripture as to how

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Speaker 1: you worship, even which day you worship and all of

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Speaker 1: those things. However, it's like anything else, why are you

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Speaker 1: doing it? And if you can really ask yourself that

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Speaker 1: know as to what you're looking for. If you're just

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Speaker 1: looking for a church that's like less structured and that

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of the you know, the stuff

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Speaker 1: you don't like. Fine, But if you're looking for a

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Speaker 1: church that you don't participate in, that you don't actually

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Speaker 1: in the sense of being part of the community, then

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Speaker 1: it's not a church. It's a group of people kind

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Speaker 1: And that's a different experience, just like you living on

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Speaker 1: it in a neighborhood is different than you living in

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Speaker 1: participating with your neighbors, you're not connecting with them. They

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Speaker 1: don't know who you are, you don't know who they are.

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Speaker 1: That's not a neighborhood. It's a house next to other houses. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So if you if you want to engage.

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Speaker 2: A very there's a very good family here, and there

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Speaker 2: a kid, and we both want the same things for

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Speaker 1: But you understand the analogy.

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Speaker 2: No, I understand the analogy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because if you don't get lost in just a

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Speaker 1: go somewhere that seems spiritual. Because I find that people

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Speaker 1: that really want to get away from so called organized

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Speaker 1: then it misses, it brushes past everything of value in

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Speaker 2: Well that's what I'm a little bit of because I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm finding myself maybe making a mistake and then holding

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Speaker 2: of it, I'm seeing her and she's admitting mistakes but

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Speaker 2: not making that attempt. And I'm just kind of on

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Speaker 2: a very patient ground right now.

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Speaker 1: It's tough, isn't it when you not when you don't

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Speaker 1: see eye to eye spiritually, it's really tough to have

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Speaker 1: it changes everything. And nobody listens to me when I tell.

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Speaker 2: Them that, no, it's it's a thing.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't It was never an issue in our relationship.

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Speaker 2: It was very well respected.

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Speaker 1: And but now you're gambling with your child.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, now it's just different, and the religion thing isn't

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Speaker 4: really so much of the issue. Well it is, but

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Speaker 4: at the same time, there's the accountability of just being

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Speaker 4: when we find ourselves in mistake mode, and that's where

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Speaker 4: I'm just you'll fight.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's just more at stake right now, Jack, And

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Speaker 1: in that process, you're gonna everyone's going to be holding

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Speaker 1: onto their own You're a smart guy, and you're an

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Speaker 1: honest guy. You're going to find the right thing. Just

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Speaker 1: be balanced and be aware of why you're doing what

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Speaker 1: want to do, and be honest with yourself first and

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Speaker 1: then with each other. Alfonso, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 5: Good morning. I just want to start with saying I'm

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Speaker 5: a loyal listener and I really love your show every weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it absolutely. Uh. I've been curious about something

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Speaker 5: and I and I wanted to call and ask about

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Speaker 5: the significance of the head coverings. Uh. Sometimes uh, you

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Speaker 5: know some religions where the where the you know, the

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Speaker 5: women cover their heads and they they don't and or

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Speaker 5: or some other religions where they where they were the

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Speaker 5: the Yamica, and and then in occasions they don't. And

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Speaker 5: and I I've seen you know, other the bishops. On

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Speaker 5: a TV interview, he had a red one on I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, I just kind of I was, you know,

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Speaker 5: very curious about that, and I knew you were the

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Speaker 5: perfect one to call and ask, well.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that the head coverings, and well, we'll focus

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Speaker 1: on Christianity just because that's the purpose of the program,

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Speaker 1: but to broaden it, they all kind of go back

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Speaker 1: to the same place. It's a sign of respect. It's

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Speaker 1: a sign of respect and humility before God. So as

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Speaker 1: far as if you read First Corinthians eleven and you

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Speaker 1: went through it, I know a lot of people will

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Speaker 1: read this and go, oh my gosh, that's you know,

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Speaker 1: the women have to wear head coverings. This is obviously

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Speaker 6: My neighbor and I were having a discussion. My husband

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Speaker 8: Jesus, thank you you are my Lord and Savior. And

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Speaker 1: prescriptive that way. It's describing that these things took place.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: So then we have to look at scripture the same way,

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Speaker 1: it being prescriptive or is it describing something? We play

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Speaker 1: a lot of secular music on the show for that

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Speaker 1: very reason, because a lot of it is describing how

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Speaker 1: that's okay. Now, if it's telling you to go out

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Speaker 1: and commit a sacrifice. If it's telling you go out

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Speaker 1: and take a life. If it's telling you to go

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Speaker 1: If it's describing them, you have to have the sense

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Speaker 1: of an old cow and eat the hay and leave

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Speaker 1: the sticks. That's the key in life altogether. Just because

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Speaker 1: you don't like something doesn't make it evil. I know

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Speaker 1: Christians have gotten to a place where where they're very

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Speaker 1: comfortable in letting, in putting their stamp of disapproval on everything.

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Speaker 1: But I assure you, as they point to all these

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Speaker 1: movies and songs, that the scripture is at the top

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Speaker 1: of the list on what you wouldn't want to see

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Speaker 1: and wouldn't want to hear about if it was accurate

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Speaker 1: in a song or in a movie. Kf I am

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