“We loaded the video equipment in the car and took off for a large church in Charlotte, North Carolina. We had received permission to interview willing subjects with one simple question: What is addiction? I was stunned by the results.”
What is Addiction?
A Biblical Understanding of Addiction
What is addiction?
In Session 1 of The Breaking the Chains Seminar, I show highly credentialed professionals plus your average church goer offering definitions of addiction. What is glaringly obvious from these definitions is how they all differ. This poses an intellectual problem: These definitions cannot all be right.
Do NOT Resist Temptation!
“It may surprise you that nowhere in the Bible are we told to ‘resist temptation’. We are told to ‘resist the devil’, but that is very different….” So wrote Rick Warren in his seminal book, The Purpose Driven Life…and he’s 100% correct.
The Way Of Escape
In my last post, we learned that nowhere in the Bible are we told to resist temptation. To do so actually empowers it since it consumes our thoughts. It is a self-defeating strategy. So, how then, do we defeat temptation? Like this.
Why God Won't Deliver You From Addiction
You’ve thrown yourself face-down on the altar too many times to remember. You’ve been to Christian counseling. You’ve prayed and read your Bible tirelessly. You’ve exercised every ounce of faith you can muster. You have literally cried out in desperation for Him to deliver you from the chains of addiction—but nothing happened. God did not deliver you. Here's why
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