How are biblical stories different from ancient myths? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the

Christian life every day. We'd love to hear from you, and you can call us any time. In fact,

you can leave us a voicemail as well. Here's our phone number. It's 833-3-4-3-2673. You can also

email us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today,

let's go to Cindy calling in from St. Louis, Missouri. Cindy, what's your question for, Adrile?

Thank you for having my call. I recently have started attending a church, medium size, I would say,

wanted to do a fresh start.

I hadn't been attending for a while, so I found this church close by.

So I've been going for quite a bit.

We were at a service, my husband and I were at a service, and there was a lady there that I did not know attended that,

that her and I have a not so good history.

She was a office manager for a place that I worked for.

She was actually the reason that I left.

So to see her at that church was kind of shocking, she turned around and looked at me and said,

well, what are you doing at this church?

So it took me off guard, and I just stood in for a minute. Not the warmest welcome, Cindy.

No, that bothered me.

And then I said, well, I said, are you a member here?

And she hesitated, said yes.

And then said, we work in a nursery.

And so I just let that go.

So before the service started, I had to actually sit there in my pew and pray very hard

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