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Sep 2023
33m 24s

POP 376 - Reel It In

Tony Ingrassia
About this episode

God is pretty smart.

In fact, God is a genius!

Sex was his idea.

He invented sex.

God must be brilliant!

He's the one who concieved of it, and created it, and made it as wonderful, and mysterious, and delicious as it is.

Since God is the one who invented sex, God has an opinion about sex.

He has a heart, mind, will, design, and plan for human sexuality.

There are ways to experience sex that are consistant with God's plan for sex, and ways that are inconsistant with his plan.

What many of us have done (including the host of this podcast) is that we've taken the gift God created for us and we've turned it into something God never intended for it to be.

Some people abuse alcohol to the point where it becomes destructive.

Some people abuse food to the point where it becomes destructive.

Some people abuse gambling to the point where it becomes destructive.

And in much the same way, some people abuse the gift of sex to the point where it becomes destructive.

In this episode Tony talks about "lasciviousness", and what it means to "reel in" the unhealthy, dysfunctional, and harmful ways we've become accustomed to experiencing sex to a place that's healthier and more consistent with God's heart, mind, will, design, and plan for sex in our lives.

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