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Well I'm sitting down again with Tom to ask a number of questions and we get all kinds of questions

in fact we get questions every day come in via the website believe it or not Tom and so it's always

hard to pick and choose

between them. But some I never quite know which category to put into. So today I'm sort of

putting a few under the general banner of pastoral and puzzled questions. So this is quite a,

I'm just flinging a whole load of different stuff at you today on the podcast. Caviats again, as before, when it comes to pastoral issues,

you can't be someone's pastor on a podcast, always seek to be part of a community where you're,

you can be helped through those issues. But we'll do our best to give some thoughts on some of

these issues. So here's an interesting one to start off with. Scott, who's in British Columbia, Canada, says,

I'm an adult convert to Christianity at 55 years old and would appreciate your insight on a question.

I've had a long journey to faith, started about 12 years ago. But I'm the only believer in my

household, which includes my wife of 30 happy years. Recently, I found out that the church I've

been attending teaches

that couples should not be unequally yoked, as Paul describes it in Second Corinthians.

I think this has taken out of context, was wondering what your thoughts are on this verse, please.

Right. That's a passage in 2 Corinthians 6, where Paul, quite suddenly, after a whole chunk on the nature of his

apostolic ministry, issues rather severe warning. And it seems to be against a Christian and a non-Christian

now entering into marriage. And that seems to be the Christian version of the Jewish endogamy, that is to say,

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