From Australia the following question was received:

We have friends who are ‘believers’. Her husband often visits our house and out of love, my friend wants to send food with him. The food that she wants to send is food that we regard as impure according to our Scripture-perspective. In this case, do we eat what she wants to send for the sake of love, or is it more important to say ‘no thank you’, with love, for the sake of eating pure food?

Answer:

In answer to this we again quote from our Master’s own Word: And it says, it is not what goes into the mouth, but what verbally comes from it, which determines whether man is pure or impure in his being.   Therefor each person can feel free to eat according to his own conscience. But please note, it is a thousand times better to, for the sake of Peace and Love, to accommodate the friend’s well-meaning food gift in his/her conscience, whether it meets kosher or other religious standards or not, and this with the firm knowing that what God has really made pure now through the right attitude of man, may not be regarded as impure by anyone.