Lisa Harper

Leviticus is an invitation to relationship.

They thought the gods wanted to kill him.

And the God of Abraham says, no, I want you.

Here's a way for you to be in relationship with me.

They'd marry these pagan hotties and kick their old Jewish wives to the curb.

And he was like, no, there's got to be a way for them to be provided for.

I always think with Malachi, or Malachi if you have Italian in your background, we've gotten that so out of context that God hates divorced people.

I'm like, no, God hates divorce because of what it does to His people.

He loves His people.

But it's changed things for me because the performer in me wanted to get it right.

And when you go, oh, yeah, if you'll think of the imperative of Scripture where God says, this is what I want you to do.

I now, this is so simplistic, but I can hang on to simple stuff, and I'll misquote the dead guys.

When I first brought my daughter home from Haiti—

Um, you know, we just did all kinds of things I'd never done before.

I've never been a big bowler.

Then I found that they're single guys, the bowling took Missy bowling.

And you know, I'd never seen those velvet bumpers.

And so I got the little velvet bumper.

So she wouldn't roll her ball in the gutter.

And I was trying to explain the law to her.