Hello, beloved family and friends.  I pray this finds you well, drawing closer each day to your Father in Heaven who loves you dearly.  I am pleased to bring you this report on what’s happening at our little church with a big heart.

Last week was our first time back in the building since the shelter in place orders were given in March.  Almost everyone who could come did, and it was such a joy to be together again!  I hope they’ll loosen restrictions at the nursing homes soon, though we want to be sure those who live there will be safe.  Kelvin is eager to rejoin us.

I owe an apology to those who tried to dial in through the conference line that we said would remain available.  I did not consider that if no one was dialed in except me, there would be hold music.  That would have been disruptive to leave playing while the service continued, so I hung up the line upon finding no one had dialed in right at starting time.  I have turned off the music as well as name announcement, so we will try again this Sunday.  Unless someone else lends their phone to the cause, I may have to discontinue it before the message begins, but you can find that through Facebook or from our podcast once I get it posted.

You’ve heard the phrase, “opposites attract.”  we say it because it seems so often to be true.  Howe many couples do you know who are so different from one another that you wonder how they got together?  I think God has something to do with that.  Those opposite traits often complement each other, making the whole greater than the sum of the parts.  I certainly feel that way about my relationship to Linda.  I have to know that if God really wanted me here at BBT He’d have used something else, but I know that He used Linda, and barring such intervention I would never have ended up here on my own.

But there is one thing that makes a couple truly incompatible, belief.  I say this with caution for obvious reasons.  Many Christians are in such relationships for a variety of reasons.  I am not suggesting that they should get out of them in cases of marriage or even business contracts.  In fact Paul addresses marriage specifically in 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 and says one should not.  What a terrible reflection on the Lord that would be!

Our text will be 2 Corinthians 6:14-20.  This passage is often used to discourage marriage between Christians and unbelievers.  It certainly does have that application, but that’s not the subject Paul is writing about here.  Let’s look at the context and see what he is really saying.

I look forward to seeing all of you again.

Love y’all!

Larry