ADDICTION- You Can’t Just Pray that Shit Away

There is a lot of secrecy and shame in the Church around the issue of addiction. Many followers of Jesus are led to believe that when we make a commitment to “live a Christian life” — Jesus will just swoop in and fix everything that is wrong with us.

We should just be able to “pray it away”.

Sometimes this message is spoken, sometimes it is unspoken. Either way, it causes many new…