As Dave has counseled locally over the last 20 years and as he has also traveled in speaking on pornography, it is clear that the topic of Soul Purity is needed today as much as it ever has been. The reality is that our culture and the church itself continues to be awash in porn, along with all of the attending destruction. In 2025 Dave is planning a one-night seminar on Soul Purity that is taken from his weekend retreats that he has done. Several churches have asked if he can do this in a zoom format as well so that they can get in on the Friday evening event from a distance.
Someone asked: Who is this seminar for?
- Men and women struggling with pornography.
- Counselors and mentors who are helping others biblically.
- Pastors and elders who oversee ministry and discipleship and who want to gain insight into the process of turning from porn to Christ.
- Those who are addicted to other sins can also find hope and help in these sessions.
Date: Friday January 31, 2025.
Zoom Note: If you would like to get in on this event by zoom, please email Dave at: davidacoats1@gmail.com in advance as an RSVP so that we have sufficient communication to work out the logistics.
Soul Purity Seminar: Freedom From Porn in Christ
“Regardless of age, background, and struggle, we all face the temptations to sin and to fall. My goal is to give hope and to find common ground as sinners, saved by the grace of God. We should seek and we can find a superior satisfaction in Christ. We must find out how to eat and drink at God’s table rather than Satan’s table of pornography and other sexual sins.”
Session #1: “The Heart of Sin” – The goal of this session is to deal with the possible ways we blame other sources for our sexual sins, rather than dealing with and acknowledging the problems in our own heart. We call this process “dealing with the root sin” and not just focusing on the “fruit.” We understand and we acknowledge the battle for soul purity.
Session #2: “The Pathway to Joy in God” – The goal of this session is to help us know how to return to our spiritual joy of soul in God. The journey takes us through Confession, Repentance, and Forgiveness – to find that joy of our salvation and rescue from sin. There is actually hope found when we can call our sin idolatry and adultery as God does. Out of the ashes of sexual sin can come beautiful worship again. We move from Duty to Discipline to Delight in God.
Session #3: “The Satisfaction in God Alone” – The goal of this session is to first identify what it means to replace God with porn and other sexual sins and idols. Then we will develop a robust view of worship for God that is based on our “hunger and thirst after righteousness” – which is a hunger and thirst for God. We want to move from knowing Information about God, to Motivation by God, and then to Transformation by God.
Session #4: “Walk with God and with One Another.” – The goal of this session is to understand what it means to continually walk with God, while also pushing one another to enjoy Him, love Him, and to seek Him together. We will explore how to “eat at God’s table” personally on a daily basis, instead of the table of sensuality. And then how do we honestly and carefully walk together in ways that will not allow our brothers and sisters to drift into sin? Loving, biblical accountability is not asking a question like, “how was your week?” It is opening our hearts and lives in ways that we cannot hide. Nor do we want to hide. We want to walk in the light.
Friday Schedule:
Session 1: 6:15-7:00pm
Break for interaction
Session 2: 7:15-8:00pm
Break for interaction
Session 3: 8:15-9:00pm
Break for interaction
Session 4: 9:15-10:00pm
Address: Southwest Community Church – 4001 S Wadsworth Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80123
