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Well, hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. If we haven't met, my name is Carlos, and I get to be a part of the

pastoral team here at Lake Point, and we get to hang out this week for a few minutes every day as we dive into the Word of God. Just a quick disclaimer. In today's episode,

we'll be briefly addressing some themes around love and sexuality as we discuss our cultural

landscape. So parents, if you're joining with your kids, I leave it up to your discretion of whether

or not this is an age-appropriate conversation

for them.

And the reason we want to lean into some of these topics is because if the church doesn't

disciple people, the world will.

Now, today's verse is found in 1 John, chapter 4, verse 7.8, and it says this, this beloved let us love one another for love is from

God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God anyone who does not love does not

know God because God is love I was born in race in El Salvador, and when I turned 18, I moved to

Grand Rapids, Michigan to go to college. And in my junior year, I met a beautiful girl who is

now my wife. Her name is Brooke. And I asked her to be my girlfriend. Now, as somebody who was

born in race in a Spanish-speaking country,

naturally, my first language is not English. So I had to learn not only how to speak English well,

but also some of the cultural differences between my culture and in this case, back at the time,

my girlfriend's culture. Now, here's what I knew. When you date somebody, you say nice things like

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