The Impact of Porn | Ted Shimer | Episode 146
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The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Mentor and author Ted Shimer joins Blake to talk about the devastating percentage of people who say they watch porn - from Christian college students to spouses to pastors. Ted has witnessed first-hand the destruction of pornography addictions and how it can ruin marriages, careers, and lives. Listen in as they discuss the roots of pornography, the underlying causes, and the power in vulnerability to fight against the addiction.
Ted is the author of The Freedom Fight - available everywhere now!
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Website: thefreedomfight.org
Instagram: @thefreedomfight
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian. |
| 0:09.8 | I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have the coolest |
| 0:15.0 | conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians are still not |
| 0:19.9 | sure we're allowed to talk about. |
| 0:21.7 | So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap, and for someone to |
| 0:25.6 | just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life, will you've |
| 0:30.0 | come to the right place? Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, |
| 0:34.9 | and come hang out with me and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for. |
| 0:44.9 | Hey Ted, welcome to Confessions of a Crappy Christian. |
| 0:47.9 | Hey Blake, it's good to be with you. I appreciate you having me on. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, I appreciate that you're having this conversation. |
| 0:54.0 | People have likely by now seen in the title we're talking about porn and the impact that |
| 0:59.1 | that is having on Christians and non-Christians alike, and you wrote a book, The Freedom Fight, |
| 1:04.5 | and that's also the name of your ministry. So to get us started, can you just tell us a little |
| 1:08.8 | bit about yourself, how you got here, and what you're hoping to accomplish with this conversation? |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, absolutely. Well, my wife and I met in college. We were involved with a campus ministry, |
| 1:20.7 | student mobilization. We came on staff with that ministry, and a joke with my wife that nobody |
| 1:26.4 | goes into the ministry hoping to become the porn guy. Nobody wants to marry the porn guy, |
| 1:31.7 | but really how we got here is in the process of discipling college students, really in the early |
| 1:37.8 | to mid-2000s after we'd been on staff for 10 to 15 years. We just started noticing that more and more |
| 1:45.0 | particularly with the men at that point, we're really struggling with porn, and so much so that we |
| 1:50.5 | were having to disqualify a lot of student leaders. That otherwise we're going to be being great |
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