This week we welcome to the podcast, Parenting Guru Ted Tripp, as our guest on the podcast,

Dr. Tripp is the author of two bestselling books, Shepherding a Child's Heart and Instructing

a Child's Heart.

Dr. Tripp, I want to ask you when you look around the church today and the condition

of families, what do you think is right now the single greatest threat to the Christian

home?

Well, I think a huge issue really has to be confronted in the elephant in the room that

we're not talking about nearly enough and that is we have an awful lot of men who are Christian

men with wives and children who are addicted to porn and they are, you know, they're going on

the websites, they're going places they shouldn't go at work, they're sitting at the computer all day,

there is periodic balances with porn or maybe even just dive wholesale into it but the fact is

that that stuff is deadening to their souls and so you have a guy that shows up at church,

you know, the hymns have been projected, you know, on the screen, the family singing,

he's singing, he's trying to sing, he wants, he wants to be drawn into this worship,

but his soul is so dead inside him because he is, he is titillated himself all week and the

things about God seemed very tailored and unreal to him and they're not compelling and I think

that that's a huge issue that is confronting a lot of Christian families, a lot of times,

now sometimes wives know about it, sometimes they don't, a lot of times wives don't know it,

they're confused, they can't understand why is this guy so disconnected, so distracted,

because you know pornography just feeds the whole private world of my personality,

you know, it's all about me and it's like any addiction, it's all about me, you know,

I think there's an interesting, you know, biblical take on addiction, I don't like the language

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