combating sinful desires on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

We love to answer your questions on truth and love, and this week we are answering a question from a listener about combating sinful desires,

and the question specifically has to do with how you respond when someone you're helping seems stuck

in a sinful struggle and what do you say it's a good question but it's a broad question because

the reality is people could struggle with a sinful desire in a number of different ways. And so what I want to do is break

that out into three different categories. It's possible that someone could struggle with a

sinful desire and not be experiencing the kind of progress that they would like to see or that

you would like to see because maybe they don't have the kind of progress that they would like to see or that you would like to see because maybe they don't have the kind of help that they need. In Galatians chapter six

verses one to two, we're told that people who are caught in a transgression need spiritual

people to restore them in their time of weakness. What this means is that people who are

struggling with sin need relationship. They need a wise and growing community of Christians to help them.

And so if you are finding that you are stuck in a sinful struggle, you might need to look around and

see whether you are in the right church. If you are not in a sinful struggle, you might need to look around and see whether you are in the right church.

If you are not in a church that is committed to raising up other Christians to have advice for you

and counsel for you that is full of truth and full of love, then you're in the wrong place.

Now, there are a couple things you can do about that. The first thing you ought to do is in a commitment to your local church, you're in the wrong place. Now, there are a couple things you can do about that.

The first thing you ought to do is in a commitment to your local church, you ought to look around and try to find the help there.

And you ought to talk to your leaders and see if there's a way that your church can grow in its commitment to providing that kind of counsel.

But honestly, if you look around and if you try and you can't find that help,

then you're going to be duty-bound to find another community of believers that can really help you

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