Looking for Spiritual Maturity: Episode 815
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stories of porn addiction recovery, plus finding belonging as a Christian, and how to know if your boyfriend is spiritually mature.
Featured musical artist: Liz Vice
Roundtable: Overcoming Porn Addiction (Part 2)
Pornography addiction is increasingly common today, even among Christians. It’s a struggle many don’t want to admit, and freedom often feels out of reach. But our guests have broken the pornography cycle, and they join us this week to share more from the stories they began last week, including what worked (and what didn’t) and why through God’s grace, freedom from sexual sin is possible.
Culture: Fitting Into the Family of God
Katy McCown and her family moved six times in 10 years thanks to her husband’s NFL career. Uprooting yet again, her feelings of loneliness were acute. As an antidote, she had to aggressively pursue community at church and in smaller circles. She’ll share some of her best tips for making it work, with Scriptural applications for plugging in, welcoming others, and carrying friendships into a new season.
She Belongs: Finding Your Place in the Body of Christ
Inbox: Is My Boyfriend Spiritually Mature?
Her boyfriend is 20 years old and she’s wondering if his maturity is “on par” for his age. She’s nervous about predicting the health of their relational future with little data. How much spiritual maturity should she expect from him right now? Counselor Jerry Jones weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
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| 1:01.8 | Well, folks, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, your host with you. |
| 1:15.5 | Later on, for our inbox, we have a girl who's asking, what level of spiritual maturity should I expect from my 20-year-old boyfriend? |
| 1:23.9 | Counselor Jerry Jones will weigh in. |
| 1:26.0 | And then for our culture, Katie McCown is an author and host of the podcast Best Day Ever with Katie McCown. She's here to discuss what it looks like to find your place in the church. So stay tuned for that. She's also married to an NFL quarterback. So that's just cool. All right. We are returning now to our roundtable discussion on living in freedom |
| 1:45.4 | from pornography addiction. So let's go ahead and hear part two of that conversation. |
| 1:51.1 | Well, here we are for our roundtable, and we are continuing a conversation that we started last |
| 1:57.6 | week. I have got my friends Alex Sterling and Carrie here. Hey, everyone. Hello. |
| 2:01.8 | Hey. All right. Well, we were learning so much and having such a great candid conversation |
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