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Welcome to Questions and Ethics with Russell Moore, where we apply the Gospel of the Kingdom

to cultural issues and your questions about the Christian life.

And now here's your host.

Hello, this is Russell Moore,

president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention sitting here in our Washington, D.C. offices taking up an ethical dilemma today for our program, questions and ethics. How do we follow Christ? How does the kingdom of

God inform the decisions that we make in our everyday lives? And here at Leland House

named for that great revolutionary era Baptist preacher and

fighter for religious liberty, John Leland. I'm here with my colleague Matthew Hawkins

here in the building today doing all sorts of things but we're going to stop

for a minute and take an ethical question.

Matt, what we got?

Sure thing, Dr. Moore.

This listener says, Dr. Moore, I have a friend who struggles with an addiction to prescription medication.

Now he always seems to and claims to be healed by God but then ultimately regresses in this

cycle.

How should we address this? That's a really good question because in this

how should we address this? That's a really good question because so many churches are facing this.

People who are addicted to prescription pain medications and those sorts of things. I find that increasingly wherever I go, we

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