Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome

you to the Joe Interview Show, which I trust and pray will be time well spent. If there was ever a

wow story, a God's story, a redemption story, and a story the world needs to hear,

it's the story of my guest, author of In Pursuit of Love, Rebecca Bender.

Rebecca was rescued from a life of addiction and sex trafficking and now advocates for victims

living in those same circumstances. What a powerful voice for the kingdom.

We talk all about stigmas people have, how it's hard to tell difficult places in our story,

and what she loves the most about Jesus. Such an incredible conversation with this woman,

and I'm thrilled to get to share it with you today. Bring that passion and fire to Joe,

Rebecca. I'm so grateful to have you on the show, my friend.

Rebecca, this is going to be a really important and kind of a different conversation for me.

And I have to just give full disclosure because that's just kind of how I roll. But this, this is an interesting interview for me because

I've sweated it a little bit. I've been really praying a lot about it. I have to say that I

wanted to handle this really well only because I feel a little bit out of my element because your story is so big,

and I want to honor it, but I also want to honor the conversation.

And so it's kind of like one of those things where I'm like, okay, we could get into a lot

of the story, we could get into the redemption piece, we're going to get into all of that. And I know this, for sure, we're going to talk a lot about Jesus because I know you love him like I do. I know he's your life like mine. I'm going to tell you right off the bat a question that I don't love when I'm interviewed on a podcast. And I want to hear your thoughts on

this. When I'm interviewed on a podcast and when people ask me, tell me a little bit about

yourself. Okay, so this is like the first question they ask me when I come on. I struggle with

that. I'm like, okay, well, let me give you like a sound bite of my life. And so I'm imagining

you might struggle with this. And so I want to ask you

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