Give This Up for Lent: Episode 892
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A challenge to ditch your screens, plus a conversation on sexuality and the church, and when your friend says she’s bisexual and a Christian.
Featured musical artist: Je’kob
Roundtable: Join Our Screen Fast
In anticipation of Lent, our friends at Plugged In have teed up a screen fast. Wanna join? If taking a break from digital devices including your smartphone, tablet, TV and gaming console sounds challenging (work exceptions are OK), then this fast may be for you. Two Plugged In team members plus our friend Georgia join us for an honest assessment of our own screen usage and what it might look like to pause for a week and prioritize the real world.
Take The Technology Addiction Assessment
Link to Bring Your Bible’s Instagram Page
Culture: Discussing Sex in Church
Sex is a difficult topic to talk about — especially at church. But the Bible has a lot to say about it, and sadly, sexual sin doesn’t stay outside the church walls. Ellen Dykas is single and part of a ministry dedicated to conversations and restoration around sex, including addiction. She talks with us about how the church can champion a healthy and biblical framework for sexuality and how it can offer healing to the sexually broken.
Rethinking Sexuality: God’s Design and Why It Matters
Inbox: When a Christian Friend Says She’s Bisexual
If your friend is dating the same gender but still claims to be a Christian, how do you respond? Jeff Johnston weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, hey, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm going to give you a little preview of what is coming up on the show. We are now |
| 0:21.5 | squarely in March. Praise God. The days are getting longer. Sorry those of you in the southern hemisphere, |
| 0:28.1 | I don't care about you. But here is what is coming up later on in the show. We have a listener who has a |
| 0:33.2 | friend who claims to be a Christian but is in same-sex relationships. And our listener is wondering, |
| 0:39.0 | is it time to have a difficult conversation with my friend about this? And so our friend, |
| 0:43.8 | Jeff Johnston, is going to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, Ellen Dykes is back |
| 0:48.4 | with us. She joined us last week to talk about her life as a single woman, never married, no kids, all the things, and how she |
| 0:56.2 | has navigated that. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, today she is here for a conversation on how the church can better approach the topic |
| 1:02.8 | of sexuality, and specifically sexuality and singleness, but we're going to cover all the |
| 1:08.0 | bases. |
| 1:09.0 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable, and we are going to |
| 1:12.6 | challenge you to do something beginning today. So here's the deal. We're going to talk about a |
| 1:17.6 | digital or a screen fast. We have talked about this before here on the show, and we have encouraged |
| 1:24.5 | people to do it. In fact, we even tried to do it one time just for a roundtable, and I was the first one |
| 1:29.0 | that picked up my phone even during those 20 minutes. |
| 1:31.5 | It was so lame. |
| 1:33.0 | So we are partnering with our dear friends and coworkers at Pluggedin, plugged in.com. |
| 1:38.6 | And I have got Brett here. |
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