- Welcome back.

It's time for your questions

and some honest answers from Gordon.

We're gonna start with this question,

really interesting question from Sally.

She says, "My husband and Ihave taken care of our grandson

"for much of his first year of life

"and have had custody ofhim for over two years.

"Our son agrees with ourefforts to adopt his son,

"but the birth mother is fighting us.

"She's not had regular visitations

"and has never supported our grandson.

"She's been in and outof mental institutions

"since we've known her.

"She's had violent behaviors

"that put the baby indanger and suicide attempts.

"She is not a believer,

"and I've tried to witnessto her and help her.

"However, I felt I had to make a decision

"between protecting my grandsonand being a witness to her.

"I feel awful.

"Am I wrong to stopsharing Jesus with her?"

- You can continue toshare Jesus with her.

But, good grief, takecare of this grandson.

His protection is paramount here.

All the laws and the courts,dealing with custody issues,

the welfare of the child,

is the number one issue before the court.

And so, don't think that somehownot protecting his welfare

is going to help you witness to her.

It's not.

This is time for what I call strong love,

where we are going toabsolutely protect our grandson.

No child should bearound suicide attempts.

And, if there's violentbehavior happening,

no child should be around that.

So, do your best to protect your grandson.

That's number one.

Now from that position, ofyour grandson being protected,

by all means, witness to her.

That doesn't mean shegets to have custody.

Doesn't mean that sheeven gets visitation.

That's up to the courts to decide.

But you can do both.

And realize that doing both is actually

the best witness you can have.

People need to know theirboundaries on their behavior.

That's why we have theseinstructions in the Bible

as to what to do.

And so, take care or your grandson.

What do you think?

- Well, I think, I agree with you.

I also think she should,

if the mother is unstableand mental and in and out

of mental institutions and dangerous,

perhaps take a breakfrom actually witnessing

to her about Jesus.

- Interaction.- Interaction thank you.

- Have your own boundaries.

- And pray, (laughs) just pray for her.

Pray for her every night.

And, I love the fact that the son, though

is siding with the parents, or the mother.

So, she has that going for her,

which kinda let's youknow that, okay, this is

really important that theson be protected in here.

- As you were saying that,the verse came to my mind.

Sometimes, it's okay toshake the dust off your shoes

and walk away.

- Yes, sometimes.

Or even just for awhile.

- If they refuse you, ifthey don't receive the peace,

then it's okay.

- It's okay.

- And you can still pray for them.

- And you can still pray.

Alright.- Alright.

And that was a long questionand an even longer answer.

(Wendy laughing)

And now they're playing the music,

so we don't get to the second question.