I am so, so thankful for the conversation we've been having this week with Dana Gresh and Dr. Julie Sladdery.

And it's been helpful for me.

It's been encouraging.

It's been challenging.

And I'm just picturing that over the last several days, the Lord has been poking in his gentlemanly way at the hearts of many of our listeners

saying, this is something you need to deal with, this is something that you've kept buried

or hidden that you need to bring to the light, or giving hope for past failure, past shame, or help for how to help others who are dealing with the topic of this week is rethinking sexuality.

And we need to talk about it. We need to think about it.

It's sad that in many cases over recent decades, the world was talking way more about sexuality than the church

was. And so even many have grown up in the church have grown up with misunderstandings,

wrong thinking, or just twisted thinking about distortions, lies about sex and sexuality. And what a job the enemy has done. Starting in

Genesis chapter 3, we talked about that yesterday, to the current day in putting people in

bondage as they are led to believe things that aren't true about this area that's intended to

glorify God and be a part of connecting our

hearts and our understanding to the gospel. So when Satan steals the truth about sexuality and

sex, he's stealing the truth that he doesn't want us to know about the redeeming covenant love

of God. And that is huge. So let me be quiet here and introduce our guests,

Dana Gresh and Julie Slattery. Julie, you've written this wonderfully helpful book,

rethinking sexuality. And I hope that our conversation has just wet the appetite of people

in every season of life, every situation. You cover so many of those. This is not an

encyclopedia to give all the answers to every problem. It's laying a foundation for sexual

discipleship, for discipling us to think God's ways, renewing our minds to think God's ways about

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