Description
This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in September 2019.
In this episode, Leading Saints Executive Director Kurt Francom, shares his closing session from the Liberating Saints Virtual Summit. He approaches the subject of supporting and mentoring someone through a difficult struggle with pornography, from a doctrinal standpoint.
This concept eventually became Kurt’s book, Is God Disappointed In Me?
Links
Is God Disappointed In Me?
“The Atonement Works for Me”: One Couple’s Recovery from Sexual Addiction
Brené Brown TED talk: Listening to Shame
James' story on the Unashamed, Unafraid podcast
The Heart of Man movie clip
The Heart of Man movie
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Highlights
3:00 Approaching the topic from a doctrinal standpoint
4:20 Behaviors vs doctrine/heart
5:15 “The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.“—Elder Boyd K. Packer
6:40 Change the heart, leading to a change in behavior
8:00 How Satan tempts us, catching us in our own traps by creating contention in our hearts (Doctrine & Covenants 10:12, 10:26, 10:63)
* 11:10 Satan’s attack on our identity causes contention (Moses 4:11, Matthew 4:3)
* 14:00 Setting our own trap (example from The Lion King)
* 17:15 Steve’s story of overcoming addiction
19:40 Satan uses shame to alter identity
* “As a shame researcher, I've learned that wherever perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun.”—Brene Brown
* 22:20 “What does that say about you as a person?”—Sam Tielemans
23:15 The adversary’s work and glory is to destroy the agency of man.
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