Here's today's email, Pastor John, hello, and thank you for this podcast.

Is it okay for me an older Christian man to marry a Christian woman half my age?

I know I will be scoffed for asking such a question.

Many will assume I'm chasing sex, youth, and beauty, however that's not the case.

It wasn't until this past year in my late 40s that I found myself for the first time attracted

to women.

I've struggled with same-sex attraction all my life, but I've never acted on those

feelings.

Just recently I've experienced the spirit moving me to walk more closely with him simultaneously.

I've been filled with the desire to get married to a woman and to become a father.

I never had such desires before nor did I think it was ever possible.

I have felt ignored by God as I watch my friends get married and have children and seemingly

get blessed by God, whereas I was always alone.

Now in middle-aged Jesus seems to be changing me, shaping me to become a husband of a wife

and the father of her children.

There is a young lady I'm friends with, and I find myself thinking about her a lot, she's

exactly half my age.

I'm old enough to be your father, is such an age gap acceptable among believers.

I think the first thing I would like to say is a word of thanks to God, and then a word

of commendation to our friend in his late 40s, that in spite of the brokenness of this

fallen world, manifesting his same-sex attraction all his life, he has not been disobedient

to God's call on his life to be sexually upright in abstaining from homosexual practice.

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