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What if you live with your boyfriend, a girlfriend, but you don't sleep together? Or what if a man and a woman get married, but they don't love each other? Several questions, kind of related

questions from children. Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. It's time for part 39 of our series,

Kids Have Questions. Pastor Jonathan Conner joins us. He's pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Manning,

Iowa. Jonathan, welcome. Thanks, Todd. Happy to be here. A very interesting first question. What?

If a man and a woman get married but don't love each other?

Yeah, I mean, like you said, it's an interesting question. It's a fascinating question. There's one thing I love about doing these learning journals with these kids, and also one of their requirements on their sermon notes they're required to take, is they're supposed to ask one question.

And I'm just always amazed by the questions they come up with.

And so often, like, you know, a lot of these questions, we didn't talk about marriage in class.

So you just wonder sometimes kind of what's going on in the world and what's driving them to ask these sorts of questions.

But nonetheless, it gives us an opportunity to address them and to bring God's truth to bear.

And I just think that's a holy privilege we have as pastors, but also as parents, grandparents,

just a holy privilege to be able to bring God's truth to bear in all areas of life.

So let's start off with my answer to the child.

I say, this is a very good question. Now, I assume you're asking about

people's feelings toward one another. That's one understanding of love, but not the one the Bible

largely operates under. In other words, love, as the Bible understands it, is something you give to another person, something that you do, something that involves action.

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