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• So thinking about your own struggles is the best way to start. Be sure to look for addictions in your own heart and life. Even though the focus of this book will be primarily on drugs and alcohol—prototypic addictions—the basic ideas are relevant to all kinds of sins that are not easily cast off. (Are there any that are?) Look for the activities or...
• Addictions are ultimately a disorder of worship. Will we worship ourselves and our own desires or will we worship the true God?
• Words like disease, treatment, and even addiction convey the idea that these problems have their ultimate cause in the body rather than the soul—a commonly accepted view that is at odds with clear biblical teaching.
• Thinking biblically about these difficult problems will require much more than redefining words or making Jesus the higher power. Instead, everything must be open to biblical inspection. Since we live in a culture that assumes a sub-biblical position, we must realize that it affects us more than we think.
• We tend to look to Scripture for the life to come, but, since the psychotherapeutic revolution of the 1960s, the Christian community has tended to look to secular psychotherapies for guidelines on how to live successfully now. For example, biblically unsupervised principles about self-esteem, individual rights, and the alleged centrality of persona...