Garrett Gross hunts child predators.As the founder of Operation 17:2 Garrett and his team use adult decoys posing as minors online to identify adults who demonstrate sexual intent toward children, document the evidence, arrange confrontations, and work toward getting offenders into the hands of law enforcement.In this episode of UPD Podcast, Garrett Gross sits down with Andy Lamb and Jonny Hanson for an intense conversation about the reality of online child predators, protecting children, confronting evil, biblical masculinity, fatherhood, pornography and sexual addiction, and the Christian response to people who have committed horrific acts.Garrett also shares a disturbing story he says he has never told on another podcast about the experience that first opened his eyes to the reality of child sexual abuse and ultimately helped lead him toward this work.But one of the hardest questions in this conversation goes beyond catching predators:What does following Jesus require when you're standing face-to-face with someone you desperately want to hate?Garrett explains why he refuses to assault the men he confronts, why his goal is to see them arrested and removed from access to children, and why he still shares the Gospel with them after they're caught.The conversation also explores the isolation Garrett sees among many offenders, the effects of pornography and sexual brokenness, why men need genuine Christian community, raising children to know Jesus, protecting your family online, discipleship, mentorship, and the difference between biblical manhood and simply appearing tough.This is a difficult conversation, but an important one.Viewer discretion is strongly advised. This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse, sexual predators, pornography, trafficking, and other disturbing subjects. It is not appropriate for children.Learn more about Operation 17:2:https://www.op17two.com/
Johnny HansenHost
Andy LambHost