With the recent release of the movie Boy Erased, the controversy regarding reparative or conversation therapy as well as past programs of Love in Action have resurfaced. The movie is based upon a book written by someone who briefly attended one of the Love in Action programs in 2004. The leadership of Restoration Path would […]
Abuse
Pornography promotes lust and objectifying the images that are taken in. Lust is about taking and using those images to be utilized for individual gratification.Continual use of porn promotes the idea of self-gratification, self-absorption and the using of others to accomplish this. Take this belief system into marriage and parenting and see what happens.
The Secret Room
Imagine there was a secret room in which you could enter and no one, including God, could see, hear or know what you did within its walls. Behind the covering of these walls existed your favorite sin. You could indulge in this sin with no fear of consequence during your time there as well as once you left. Would you choose to enter this room?
The Blessing of the Thorn
I realized throughout these interactions that the church had a problem and we weren’t dealing with it. Probably, the most beneficial thing I did was to listen to these brothers and sisters in Christ that were in the struggle. Since that time in the early 90’s I have listened to hundreds of stories from Christian sex addicts. These were not short stories but long stories that in some cases took days to tell.My hope is that, as a body of believers, we might better understand this assault from the enemy and stop shooting our sexually wounded or in some cases ignoring their plight.
Blinded by the eclipse
How was this small moon able to conduct such a powerful feat? Even though it is 400 times smaller than the sun, it is 400 times closer to the earth. This fact is true about most anything in our lives. The things which we draw closest to us are the things that garnish the most attention and tend to block other more significant items.
Dealing with messy people
We don’t like messy things and we want them to go away very quickly. There is nothing more messy than sexual sin. We can’t keep firing, shunning and sending away our messy sexual sinners because statistics show us that close to 70% of men in the church are looking at porn several times a week. What if we become the church that says “Hey, we are in the people business and people are messy. We are not afraid of your mess because we know the One who bore and paid for them.” Maybe if we did that then we might see true revival break out across this land.
Repeated burns
You see pain doesn’t produce change. It only gets our attention. The pain only informs us “Hey, what you are doing is not working. You are in rebellion to God and rebellion causes pain. The goal is not to figure out a way to avoid pain. The goal is obedience and to submit our rebellious nature to the Lord.
Approval Addiction
What motivates your works today? Is it for the affirmation, validation and approval of man or is it because of your love for Christ? You cannot do both.
Fight Club
Just as in Fight Club, sexual sin produces a double-minded person. One seeks to serve the Lord while the other rebels and wants no constraints. In the war against sexual sin, we must come together and form a Christian version of fight club.
