Above All Else: From Lust to Love
About this episode
Andy Rodgers discusses the nature of lust as a distortion of love and its implications on sexuality and relationships.
As part of our Above All Else series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Andy Rodgers teaches on lust, not just as sexual temptation, but as a deeper distortion of love, desire, and the way we see other people. This message explores sexuality, purity, shame, healing, and the hope of transformation through the grace of Jesus in a culture shaped by both sexual shame and sexual excess. —- "Lust is disordered, sexual desire that reduces another person into an object for selfish pleasure instead of honoring them as a whole person made in God’s image. It consumes rather than loves, and takes rather than honors." Isn’t refraining from sexual desires sexual repression? And isn’t that really bad for your mental health? Isn’t this just about controlling women’s bodies? Isn’t lust a private matter that doesn’t affect anyone if it stays fantasy or is expressed through consenting adults? Isn’t teaching on sexual purity the same thing as purity culture? Isn’t that false teaching/toxic theology that hurts people? Lust ... - Dehumanizes Others - Harms Others - Isolates Us - Enslaves Us - Deforms Us "The problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too…
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