Garrett Kell: The Day My Secrets Got Out
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Author and pastor Garrett Kell lived in the agony of his own secrets and porn addiction. But God used his breakdown for healing in Garrett--and his church.
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus was very patient with sexual sinners. He was very tender with them. But he |
| 0:06.8 | was hard against religious hypocrites. And you've got to pick, are you going to be |
| 0:11.2 | a broken humble sinner who needs him, or are you going to be a religious |
| 0:14.2 | hypocrite? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships |
| 0:29.4 | that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at |
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| 0:51.0 | So I can remember often men in our church would set up an appointment to |
| 0:55.8 | come see me. Constantly. Yeah, I mean, you know, you're a pastor and you talk about |
| 0:59.9 | different things and you hit a cord with somebody. So they'll come in. Wait, so |
| 1:03.4 | when they would come in, did you think, Oh, I know what this is about? Well, |
| 1:06.5 | often they would sort of stumble around because I could tell they're afraid to |
| 1:10.3 | really talk about why they're, you know, you're talking or laughing, but I'm |
| 1:13.1 | I can sense them getting nervous. And usually, and I'm not kidding, it felt like eight |
| 1:19.2 | out of 10 guys had a porn struggle. That they, and because I had from the |
| 1:23.9 | pulpit said, I have struggled with that they felt comfortable. Like, well, if he |
| 1:27.7 | struggled with it, I can go in and talk to him about it. But they were a little |
| 1:31.7 | afraid to bring it up. So they bring it up. And I'll never forget this one time |
| 1:34.1 | Bruce, one of the drummers in our band. And I played bass. So I knew Bruce really |
| 1:37.7 | well, he sets up this appointment. And I'm like, why would Bruce want to me? I mean, |
| 1:41.9 | we talk all the time. We're in the band together, right? And he comes in. |
| 1:44.7 | He's him, Han around. And I finally go, okay, Bruce, I know why you're here. |
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