Hello, hello, hello ladies and gents.

My name is Kirby Kelly and welcome to the bot and beloved podcast.

I'm so happy that you're tuning in today and I hope that you are having a good day and

if not that you just leave this podcast feeling encouraged wherever it is that you're at

today that you just leave today feeling sharpened feeling equipped feeling known and loved because

that's exactly who you are.

Now over the past few weeks, I've had some amazing guests join me for some conversations

on here, but today it's just going to be me and I'm excited to dive deep with you all today

on the topic of sanctification and the imperfect Christian.

So some of you may know that I have a public email for my podcast where you can all send

in your biblical based questions, your topic ideas, you know, you can shoot me over the

kind of situation that you might be going through and we just get to see scripture and

what it says, how it highlights on that specific subject and that is what brought about

today's discussion topic.

I had someone by the name Jacqueline email me at bot and beloved at gmail.com and that's

all spelled out bot a and D beloved at gmail.com and this is what she wrote me.

She said hi Kirby, I'm a huge fan of your podcast and figured out email you and see if

you would use it as a prompt for an episode.

My name is Jacqueline, I'm 22 years old and I've been a Christian for a little while now,

but sometimes I can feel so bad about myself when I sin.

I thought that when I gave my life to Jesus, it would be easier to say no to sin, but sometimes

I still find myself sinning.

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