Kill this or it will kill you. Beat to death with a shovel if you have to as described here. Kill it in any case.
Russell Moore writes about how churches should deal with the pornography epidemic:
The couple will typically tell me first about how stressful their lives are. Maybe he’s lost his job. Perhaps she’s working two. Maybe their children are rowdy or the house is chaotic. But usually, if we talk long enough about their fracturing marriage, there is a sense that something else is afoot. The couple will tell me about how their sex life is near extinction. The man, she’ll tell me, is an emotional wraith, dead to intimacy with his wife. The woman will be frustrated, with what seems to him to be a wild mixture of rage and humiliation. They just don’t know what’s wrong, but they know a Christian marriage isn’t supposed to feel like this.
It’s at this point that I interrupt the discussion, look at the man, and ask, “So how long has the porn been going on?” The couple will look at each other, and then look at me, with a kind of fearful incredulity that communicates the question, “How do you know?” For a few minutes, they seek to reorient themselves to this exposure, wondering, I suppose, if I’m an Old Testament prophet or a New Age psychic. But I’m not either. One doesn’t have to be to sense the spirit of this age. In our time, pornography is the destroying angel of (especially male) Eros, and it’s time the Church faced the horror of this truth.
A Perversion of the Good
In one sense, the issue of pornography is not new at all. . .
Read the whole thing here.
Chris…I am glad you brought this up and posted this article. I read the entire article and it is a serious issue in the church and one which we cannot afford to sweep under the carpet. One of our sons dealt with this very issue in his own life. We know the struggle and pain that goes with this. However, true repentance and ministry by the church is what is needed to bring healing. I hope many others will read this and find some answers. Thank you!