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29:30•24 May 2026
Tired of Being Broken: Bishop Lance Johnson on Freedom From Addiction and Dead Religion
Episode Overview
- Some relationships and religious voices drain life and must be cut off to protect the space where healing can happen.
- Many people remain bound by addictions, pornography and depression despite church activity, because deeper repentance and deliverance have not taken place.
- Those tormented by demons, trauma and addiction are not enemies but assignments, deserving compassion and practical help rather than debate and stigma.
- Real repentance means deciding to leave the old life, stop blaming others and fully turn to Jesus, even when demons and old habits scream for attention.
- Baptism is presented as a symbolic death of the old, tormented self and entrance into “the power to never go back” to former addictions and lifestyles.
“Some voices don’t build you, they drain you… I’m coming for somebody who is sick and tired of being broken.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This message from Bishop Lance Johnson leans straight into that question, especially for anyone exhausted by addiction, shame and religious noise. Speaking from his own background of bondage, Lance points to those who feel stuck in cycles of porn, drugs, depression or emotional scars that never seem to heal.
Rather than offering more theory, he goes hard after what he calls “institutionalised Christianity” and lifeless religion that debates demons instead of helping broken people: “Some of you need to get religious people out of your life… I don’t want to argue with your lifeless, dead Christianity because there’s too many broken, hurting, wounded lives at stake.” Using stories of the demoniac in the Gadarene tombs and the demonised child brought to Jesus, Lance draws a straight line to modern addiction, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
He talks about people who “repent every time it happen… and you go to bed in shame,” yet still feel chained, and calls out the quiet despair of those who’ve tried rehabs, programmes and church prayer lines but remain trapped. He stresses that people battling demons are “not my enemy… you’re my assignment,” and insists that real change comes through repentance, hunger for God and a willingness to cut ties with old patterns.
He also challenges long-time Christians to grow up in faith, fast and pray, and stop making excuses for a powerless life. Baptism is framed as a burial of the old, tormented self, with the promise of “the power to never go back” to crack houses, clubs, alcohol or the old lifestyle.
If you’re tired of being broken, worn out by religious debate and longing for genuine freedom from addiction and shame, this fiery message might push you to ask: what am I still clinging to that keeps me from walking out of my grave?
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