#147 - Fentanyl and the Local Church (Dr. Shaw and Jim Quigley)

Dr. Mark E Shaw is the Founder of The Addiction Connection and leads an international team of Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselors (CABC) who are leading the way in offering the Hope of the Gospel for the Heart of Addiction. Jim Quigley is a CABC (Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor) with The Addiction Connection and serves as Chairman of the Board of The Addiction Connection as well. Jim serves as the Executive Director of Freedom Farm Ministries in Boone, NC which has separate but identical men's and women's residential program (which is called Kari's Home). Find more biblical residential programs for addiction which is what the world calls Substance Use Disorders, or find help here https://www.theaddictionconnection.org/residential-programs/ 7:15 What is another way The Addiction Connection network has worked together to help those suffering from addictions? What is the key to change in someone's life? Ephesians 5:1-2 "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." ESV [1] What separates the programs in The Addiction Connection network from other programs in the world? 10:40 What is the current news about age 18-45 overdose deaths due to fentanyl and what does the Church have to offer?  15:15 What is fentanyl and what has happened on the streets in the history of the opioid epidemic, the heroin trend, and now the fentanyl problem? 18:05 Are people who are overdosing intending to die? What are pressed pills and the dangers? 21:40 What was said in the hearing in the House of Representatives, March 2017, "Fentanyl: The Next Wave of the Opioid Crisis"? 26:30 Why were there such startling fatalities in teenagers in 2021? 31:30 How can we as Bible-believing Christ-followers sound the alarm about drug overdose deaths and addiction to local churches everywhere? 34:45 "Beyond the drug itself, this is probably the biggest problem in dealing with the addicted..." - Jim Quigley 39:00 What can individual members of the local church do? (James 1:22, 2 Peter 1:3) [1] Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. May not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.