Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts. Join Brad in the studio for a sit-down interview with Nate Larkin.

About Nate Larkin: After just five years in the ministry, at age 30, Nate made the choice to quit. An obsession had developed into a virulent addiction to pornography and commercial sex. His decision to abandon vocational ministry was driven primarily by private despair about his moral failures and the fear of public exposure. He took a job with a construction consultant and redirected his sermon-writing skills to producing technical reports. But even with the change in careers, his addiction continued. His wife Allie was his only friend and confidante. Nate had achieved his childhood ambition—to live like Samson. And like Samson, he found himself living in isolation and futility.

After years of praying, fasting, pleading and repenting in private, Nate finally found help for his sex addiction—in the form of authentic friendship and the safety of a 12-step recovery group. No longer would the deadly cocktail of isolation and temptation rule him.

As he worked through the 12 steps, Nate began to see life differently. He even saw his biblical hero, Samson, with new eyes. Nate came to understand that God-given gifts such as exceptional strength and impressive oratory skills are not enough to sustain the Christian. Eventually, he found a new biblical hero, another moral failure who had recovered: King David. In sharp contrast to Samson, David was a man with friends.

The gift of male companionship, which he first experienced through the remarkable courage of Jonathan, became the defining characteristic of his public career and his safeguard when things went wrong. Nate finally understood why a 12-step group had accomplished what solitary prayer and fasting could not. God designed the Christian life as a team sport!

Nate loves to talking men about their need for community, and how they can overcome struggles together.

Samson Society: https://samsonsociety.com/

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