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Sexual Addiction:The Quest for Authentic Intimacy and Thirst for Unfailing LoveBrady CottleLiving Hope Ministries: Sexual Addiction: The Quest for Authentic Intimacy and Thirst for Unfailing Love Brady Cottle Living Hope Ministries
Addiction: Addiction Thirst gone unquenched
God is the only source of Living Water (Jer. 2:13)
Addiction began at Eden's fall
False thirst
Idolatry
We are made for relationship
With God and others
God: the Source of authentic love
Addiction is a false intimacy
Two Main Sources: Two Main Sources Gerald May Craig Lockwood
Slide4: '..so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.' And here is the second: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment that ranks with these.' Mark 12:30-31
Slide5: 'Connection without relational risk is the driving force of sexual addiction. One attaches himself to sexual objects in a vain attempt to satisfy the gaping hole in his soul. Overcoming sexual addiction involves dealing with misdirected quest for emotional intimacy.'
C. Lockwood in Falling Forward: The Pursuit of Sexual Purity
Slide6: Sexual Pressure Acting
Out Guilt New
Shame The
Resolution Despair Sex Act Trigger
Event
Addictive Cycle with Trigger Event , by Patrick Carnes Addictive Cycle
Common Triggers for the Sex Addict: Common Triggers for the Sex Addict Rejection
Stress
Abandonment
Change
Places/locations
Or also
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired
Stressed H.A.L.T.S.
Slide8: Sexual Pressure Acting
Out Guilt New
Shame The
Resolution choose Flee from sin Call someone Practice the Presence White knuckle it Despair Sex Act Trigger
Event
Slide9: 'Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst--not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.' The woman said, 'Sir, give me this water so I won't ever get thirsty, won't ever have to come back to this well again!' John 4:14-15