The Bondage Breaker

What it is

Neil T. Anderson's argument, sold in the millions since the early 1990s, is that harmful habits, distorted thinking and irrational feelings function as strongholds, and that attacking the behaviour directly leaves the stronghold intact. His alternative is identity: what a believer accepts as true about who they already are in Christ determines what has power over them. The book works through those strongholds and closes with the Steps to Freedom in Christ, a structured prayer process readers can work through alone or with someone else. It is not written about pornography specifically — it is a general spiritual-freedom book — which makes it a companion to a recovery program rather than a substitute for one. Its spiritual-warfare framing is pronounced; readers who want a clinical account of compulsion should pair it with something like The Porn Circuit or Unwanted.

What it may help with

• I want to grow spiritually
• I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin

How to access it

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