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What is temptation, and why isn’t it always sinful?

Date recorded: 22 May 2025 | Speaker: John Stevens | Event: ELF Interviews
Topic: Discipleship
Keywords: 
resisting temptation in daily life | 
overcoming spiritual struggles | 
practical steps to avoid sin | 
how to fight temptation biblically | 
Christian strategies for self-control | 
discipleship and personal growth
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John Stevens is the National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, a network of over 665 Bible-centred churches in the UK, a role he has held since 2010. Previously, he was a founding pastor of City Evangelical Church Birmingham and a University Lecturer in Law, ending as Deputy Head of the Law School at the University of Birmingham. Here, John Stevens answers questions from the talk 'The Fight of Your Life: Facing and Resisting Temptation', given at ELF 2025.

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