Counseling Wives of Addicts

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The toxic effects of Porn addiction go far beyond that of just the addict. What about the wives of addicts? How do they suffer? And what are the Church’s worst mistakes in dealing with the spouse of an unfaithful husband? Today we have Ellen Dykas of Harvest USA to speak to such questions. Ellen is the Women's Ministry Coordinator at Harvest USA which was started and thrives in the heart of Philadelphia, caring for and serving those struggling with sexual issues. Ellen also speaks to parenting children - how do you talk to your explicit material. Today's conversation is a pressing one for the Church to have and one to be continued.Win a free book! We have several copies of iSnooping on Your Kid: Parenting in an Internet World to giveaway.Winners:Marcus W., St. Louis, MOSusan G., Drexel Hill, PAJeff C., Chambersburg, PALinda H., Rockford, ILAshley S., Irmo, SCFrancis L., Tucson, AZPhilip W., Owatonna, MNLee V., Fort Mitchell, KYShane S., Boomfield, CORachelle H., Milton, FL

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.6	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.4	Evangelicals. Pornography addiction is an ongoing issue, and the church is not immune.
0:42.0	Today we have Ellen Dykes from Harvest USA Philadelphia in the studio to talk about her experience in counseling the wives of men addicted to porn.
0:47.4	Let's hear what the team has to say.
1:10.0	Okay. Great. Well, thanks for listening today. I'm real excited about our guest, Ellen Dykis. She's the Women's Ministry Coordinator for Harvest USA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hi, Ellen. How are you doing?
1:11.7	Great to be here with you today.
1:18.0	I wanted to see if you could share a little bit about what Harvest USA is and what it is you guys do over there.
1:26.1	Sure. Harvest USA has been around for about 33 years. We started actually out of the Ministry of 10th Presbyterian in downtown Philadelphia.
1:28.7	And our mission has changed over the years to where it is today is that we want to be a gospel-centered ministry offering the hope of Christ
1:34.8	to people impacted by sexual sin, but also to equip the body of Christ to minister to sexual
1:41.5	struggles. So in what ways do you guys do that?
1:44.7	Do you provide resources?
1:46.3	Do you offer counseling?
1:49.1	We call what we do targeted discipleship.
1:53.3	We actually stay away from the C word in what we do.
1:57.3	So we offer short-term one-on-one ministry to men, women, couples, families to help them get
2:04.1	set on a direction. Our long-term ministry is in our biblical support groups that we host in our
2:09.3	offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. And then the bigger part of what we do is that equipping ministry.
2:15.5	So we do a lot of conferences, training seminars. We are
2:20.4	seeking to produce more and more materials that churches can use in their own ministry.
2:26.1	Great. So you've written a book, Sexual Sanity for Women, Healing from Sexual and Relational
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