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Helping Others Overcome Addictions: How God's Grace Brings Lasting Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does Christianity have an answer for addiction? As longtime pastor Mike Quarles’s alcoholism worsened over eight years, churches and Christians referred him to treatment, 12-Step programs, therapy…nothing worked. Steve McVey, also a pastor, repeatedly dished out the same advice Mike received, with similarly poor results… …Until, in their frustration, God led them back to basic,...

drug. Both are confessions that they believe they are addicts, and these beliefs keep them in bondage. If we believe the truth of who we are in Christ we can live according to that fact. Now, a lot of people spend their lives trying to die to sin. Both of us did. How do you die to sin? You don’t! You have already died to sin (Romans 6:2). Our identity is an issue of belief, not experience. Our identity originates in the historical fact of our co-crucifixion and co-resurrection with Christ. Through