Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Christianity Is Not A Solo Sport #puredesirepodcast #podcast

9 Nov 2023

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A podcast-style YouTube spoken segment (uploaded by Nick Stumbo) arguing that Christianity is inherently communal: believers are led and discipled by others, celebrate together, and must be present to support one another in failure. The speaker cites James 5:16 to stress confession and communal healing, and applies this to struggles like pornography—warning that secrecy fuels temptation and that healing requires openness within the body of Christ.

Christianity isn't a solo sport. Somebody led you to Christ. Somebody discipled you and taught you how to be a Christian. Somebody is there with you in the celebrations, and if you do it right, somebody is there with you in the trenches when you get it wrong. James 5:16 says, Confess your sins one to another, and then you will be healed. Forgiveness comes from God and God alone, but the work of healing is worked out in among us, the body of Christ, the community of Christ. And so if you want to experience that the way that the Bible says we do, and the way that God designed us to, you can't keep this a secret. And, you know, it's just counterintuitive to what we know about pornography, where secrecy breeds the temptation, secrecy increases the temptation.