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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today, you'll hear a message from Sam Albury on sexual challenges and your church's response.

This message was originally given at TGC's 2020 Bay Area pre-conference.

Well, sexuality, the church, grace, and truth are what we're looking at now,

and those are full words that you don't always associate with one another,

but which should naturally belong together.

I was speaking at a Christmas Carol service at my church back home a number of years ago,

and someone came along for the first time he worked in a nearby office and saw that the

Carol service was happening, thought he would come into church and see what it was about.

And I had a conversation with him afterwards where he said what any pastor or preacher would

just love anyone to say after a talk. He said, I was really interested in what you said about

Jesus. Great, good. I'm glad about that. He said, would it be okay if we met up and maybe

had a conversation about what it looks like to follow Jesus? And they kind of asked this apologetically

as if it was somehow interrupting my day of what, being a church pastor's meant to be about,

but I said to him, I think I can probably allow, you know, a sneak out of the church building

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