preventing and purging sexual sin on this edition of Truth and Love.

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

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

This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to have one of my wonderful friends, my former pastor, Brian Gaines.

He serves as a pastor of counseling and biblical discipleship at Grace Community Church in Glenrose, Texas.

He's a regular contributor to the cbcd.org, regional training center of ACBC and has various resources on our website as well,

which can be found on biblical counseling.com. Brian and his wife, Laura, just celebrated their

26th wedding anniversary, and they have four wonderful children ages 7 to 20. The oldest,

which is halfway through their supervision phase of being ACBC certified, he's raising them well. Brian. Good job. And I appreciate that. It's good to have you, brother, and talking about this issue, which is honestly, it's so prevalent in our culture, the issue of sexuality. So welcome to podcast today. Thanks for tackling a difficult topic. It's good to be with you, Dale, and so appreciative for the ministry of ACBC. Now, what makes

ACBC go, just as a plug, is local churches like what we see down in England, Rose, Grace Community

Church and the work that they're doing in conjunction with a lot of the churches at, you know,

the CBCD, one of our training centers down. That's just the beautiful collaboration that happens and that we see

most fruitful around the nation and around the world. When churches are engaging in doing this

type of ministry, both in training and this type of soul care within their churches, it's just an

incredible thing. Out of that comes, you know, opportunities to minister in ways that our culture presents with this

burgeoning issue of sexuality. And I want us to think about this well. So God obviously

designed sexuality to be good. And sometimes we have a tendency to think, well, if so much

sexual immorality is happening, you know, the sexuality thing must be bad. Well, no, no, it's good.

It's designed by God. And this is something that we need to make sure that we understand very clearly. But the world certainly wants to turn upside down that design of God and really take what God is given as being something good and turn it upside down. And that's exactly what's happened in our culture. So I want you to speak to some of the misuses of God's gift of sexuality in regard to some of the issues that we're seeing today.

Sure, Dale.

Yeah, I think as we move towards the misuse of sexuality, I think it's so important, as you mentioned, to go back to the proper use of sexuality.

You know, as we consider Genesis 1 and 2, it's God who created a man and woman.

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