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Pure Desire Podcast

024 - Church Hurdles

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Rodney Wright, pastor at Lake City Church in Idaho, about the struggles and hurdles pastors face when addressing sexual addiction in their church. We discuss what level of pastoral involvement is appropriate, why sexual addiction is a taboo topic, and why it is so important to have groups for people struggling in the church.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Pure Desire podcast, where we partner with you to bring hope and freedom on your journey to purity.

0:16.1

Hey there, I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and we're so thankful you're taking time out of your day to hang out with us.

0:20.7

I'm here with my co-host as always, Nick Stumbo.

0:23.1

It's a Christmas miracle.

0:25.3

I just want to apologize for all our listeners out there for this intro.

0:28.5

This will come out before Christmas, right?

0:29.7

That's right.

0:30.3

Okay, that'll make more sense that way.

0:32.4

And today we are graced by the presence of the tender teddy bear himself Rodney Wright. Rodney, thanks for hanging out with us

0:38.0

today. Stop that. That is a crazy. I don't know where that's even coming from. The tender teddy bear,

0:43.2

if you don't know Rodney, Ronnie's a pretty tall guy. He's a nice build and he is just the most

0:48.7

gracious dude I know. So for me, you were just the tender teddy bear. Okay, so be it. All righty. Well, Rodney is on

0:57.8

with us today. He's a pastor at Lake City Church in Cordelaine, Idaho. Don't try to spell that.

1:02.7

I tried earlier. I'm awful at it. Rodney is also on the board here for pure desire. So we're

1:08.9

excited to have Rodney on with us to talk about

1:11.1

really the struggles or the hurdles that pastors and churches have when thinking about starting

1:16.0

a purity ministry or peer desire groups. This worked out nicely because Nick and I also have

1:21.5

pastoral ministry in our background. So we hope to speak to really any pastors or church leaders

1:26.0

or just lay leaders out there about

1:28.3

why and how to bring pure desire to your church. So if you guys are ready, let's get going.

1:33.7

Let's do it. Yeah, it's exciting. Well, Rodney, glad to have you with us today. Why don't we

1:39.1

start out by just letting you tell a little bit of your story. Give us some of your background.

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