Session 14: X3pure Men’s SeriesRecovery Target #4: Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

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• We need to move out of systems, or groups of people, or situations in which we are given love only if we act or behave a certain way, and move into systems, or groups of people, or situations in which we are loved no matter who we are or what we do.

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1. Psychologically examine our feelings, which means that we

pay attention, and are attuned to, our feelings, especially

feelings of conditional love and where those feelings came

from.

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1. Psychologically examine our feelings, which means that we

pay attention, and are attuned to, our feelings, especially

feelings of conditional love and where those feelings came

from.

2. Seek, establish, and engage in community, which means

that we rebuild the interpersonal bridge that was broken for us

at a young age because of conditional love.

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3. We accomplish this conversion of conditional love into

unconditional love when we ensure that individuals and

communities are unconditionally loving by exercising Truth,

Trust, and Territory.

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• Common Denominator

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• Common Denominator

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

- We all want to live lives free of our Unwanted Sexual Behavior, free

of our addictions, and free to experience unconditional love in all of

its many wonderful varieties.

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• “How can our faith lives help us achieve freedom from of our Unwanted Sexual Behavior?”

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• “How can our faith lives help us achieve freedom from of our Unwanted Sexual Behavior?”

• Experiencing unconditional love.

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• “How can our faith lives help us achieve freedom from of our Unwanted Sexual Behavior?”

• Experiencing unconditional love.

Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith

• Is your God a God of conditional love or unconditional love?

Romans

Romans

• Romans 7.12 “So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

• God wants us to save sex for marriage.

Romans

• Romans 7.12 “So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

• God wants us to save sex for marriage.

Romans

• God wants us to abstain from Unwanted Sexual Behavior.

• Romans 7.12 “So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

Romans

Romans• Romans 7:8-11 “But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.”

Romans

Romans

• “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”

Romans

• Jesus Christ

• “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”

Romans

Romans

• The only answer to that pain is unconditional love

Romans

• The only answer to that pain is unconditional love

• That sense of being valued and cherished and loved beyond measure is the very nature of Jesus Christ.

Romans

Romans

• Romans 8:1-4 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.”

Faith

Faith

• Ultimately, the greatest source of unconditional love is from God Himself. And if you’re willing to see God as unconditionally loving, then you can access God’s power, strength, support and love anytime you wish.

Faith

• Ultimately, the greatest source of unconditional love is from God Himself. And if you’re willing to see God as unconditionally loving, then you can access God’s power, strength, support and love anytime you wish.

• Begin to see God as unconditionally loving.

Steps

Steps

• Read the Bible.

Steps

• Read the Bible.

• Pray Daily.

Steps

• Read the Bible.

• Pray Daily.

• Find a Church.

Steps

• Read the Bible.

• Pray Daily.

• Find a Church.

• Find ways to serve God.

Farewell

Farewell

• “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”