the sexual gospel | relationship mini series | feat Nikki Dent

So hello Nikki, can you tell us a bit about yourself? Hello

everyone, such an honour and a joy to be here.

Yeah, I think you've said a lot actually.

I'm a pastor, a preacher, an author and a mother and a wife, all those things.

And I travel around Australia and beyond preaching, preaching the Bible actually and how it intersects with culture and and answers the cultural and modern questions that we have for this generation.

And a lot of that for the last 10 years has been around sexuality, gender identity and relationships, not exclusively, but that's definitely an area that I have fallen into and gets a lot of traction with this generation because the Bible is really, really good news when it comes to that area of life.

So

yeah, I'm busy.

I love that.

It is good news.

And that's what I love about your message.

We'll get into it in this conversation.

But firstly, I think if we set the scene, I mean, you and I are both pastors.

We both have kids.

I don't know whether you've been in youth ministry as well, but I was in youth ministry for over a decade.

And This is huge.

And we live in a culture that's just saturated with sexual messaging.

Like you can't even go to the local Westfield shopping mall without just being bombarded with these sorts of messages.

And as a pastor, and I guess for Lancaster as We're specifically talking to mostly Christians.

And I've noticed that this sexualised and digital culture is shaping the Christian worldview as well.

Can you speak into that to the young adult girl who maybe doesn't even recognise that that's happening to her?

Yeah, and what I would say, first of all, is that this actually isn't anything new.

And I say that as an encouragement to believers listening to the Christian girls in that nothing that we're experiencing today is brand new.

There's nothing new under the sun.

And so if you went back to the early church or if you went back even to ancient Israel, and described what culture is like and the sort of sexual depravity sexual immorality the objectification of women the pornography things like that they would have said yeah that's that is paganism that's the culture we're surrounded with and and that's really why scripture has so much to say uh about sexual morality and the sexual gospel because it was around when the Bible was being written as well.