Porn Addiction on a Rampage in the Church
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Imagine that I am speaking about a particular slice of people in the church on the subject of porn addictions. They all have one significant item in common. Let’s guess what it is.
- 51% of you say porn is a temptation.
- 37% of you say it's currently a struggle.
- 53% of you have visited porn sites in the past year.
- 18% percent of you look at porn a couple times a month.
- 30% of you do not talk to anyone about your dirty little secret.
- 4 in 10 of you looked at porn today.
(Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001).
Ready for the answer?
Pastors.
Yes, four in ten pastors looked at porn today. Porn addiction is even destroying those who are called to shepherd the flock of God. If Porn addiction is shredding pastors, we might imagine they’re shredding many people like you.
Why Porn Addiction is huge in the church
Easy, anonymous internet consumption of porn has removed the public shame once associated with entering a shady porn shop or having to face another human while buying porn.
Addiction skyrockets, perhaps compounded by churches that emphasize programs over changed lives, or perhaps inadequate understanding of the healing and freedom that the gospel brings.
Spiritual Impotence
We are preaching the life that Jesus brings to others but not experiencing it ourselves. This is especially true of pastors who often fall into the trap of seeing that everyone else has spiritual care except themselves and their families.
Feeling burned out and empty, internet porn becomes a temporary anesthetic that slowly sucks the life out of the soul. This phenomenon is perpetuated among many others who are not pastors. In our lust for virtual virility, we have become impotent.
Immediate Help for Porn Addiction
Addicts who think they can beat their addiction without external help are the first to fall. We must first immediately filter internet access through an internet site filter or accountability program. Compelling reasons exist for everyone to filter internet access whether they are driving by porn addiction or not, but those reasons are for another article.
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Whatever case, we've got to curb, control, and contain this monster. If you're a man and you can honestly say that looking at naked women doesn’t appeal to you, we can fix that problem another time. For the rest of us, we might as well say this will be a problem unless safeguards are put into place.
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