Robert's Testimony | What Real Support Looks Like in Recovery #addiction #recovery #jesus #testimony

That's a lie, you know. I couldn't talk to my pastor. I can't say, hey man, I'm struggling with this, I didn't know how to do that. I couldn't talk to an elder. I couldn't talk to— and the only person I had were secular people I could talk to. Hey man, you know, this is what I'm doing, you know, whatever. They're not going to give me Christian ideas, you know, or, you know, scriptures, right? But those are all lies, man, that I was facing, you know. Um, and when I got that hug from my pastor, like I mentioned, and I, and I, and I got into Victory in Christ, and I got to see the love, you know. There was no chastisement, you know, in Victory in Christ. When we're doing our groups, you know, in Victory in Christ, you know, if a man falls, you know, and then he— and he struggles and he falls, we're not chastising, we're not beating him down, say, man, you should have done this, man, why didn't you call us, man, why— no, none of that. It's saying, okay, I love you, I care for you. Could you have picked up the phone? What did you do? Where could you be at? You know, could you make the phone call? Could you text in? Could you chime in? You know, could you go on Discord with us, you know, and talk to us? What is it? What happened that you weren't able to do these things? You know, how can we make it better for you? Yeah. Um, this is the love of Christ, you know. This is everything that Victory in Christ was showing me, what I could do differently.