For Faith & Family | Beware: Pornography may be coming to a cell phone near you | Comments http://faithandfamily.com/ This feed provides all comments on "Beware: Pornography may be coming to a cell phone near you." en web-master@erlc.com ℗ & © 2008 ERLC Comment 1 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment1 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment1 The issue is not pornography’s availability; it is how to meet God-given desires in a manner that honors Christ and him/herself. 

Sadly, pornography fulfills sex education voids.  Pornography is hamburger people feed on when parents/churches do not teach how to obtain and eat filet mignon.  Pornography preys upon insecure people “not good enough” to find fellowship, love, and grace within a church or to mate in a Godly way.

We all need to have needs met in Godly ways. Do churches teach, love and encourage insecure traumatized youth to meet sex desires in a healthy way?  What venues are there to confess lusts as to be prayed for healing rather than shamed?  How are Christians taught to enjoy their spouses as not to resort to pornography?

The church has a tremendous task if it is to reduce demand for this trash.  The church must be a safe place for confession and repentance, not to encourage “biblical” divorce.

]]> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:47:57 CST Comment 2 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment2 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment2 I agreee with Jim Kennedy.  The U.S.A. has enjoyed tremendous blessings imparted to us from God, compared to alot of other nations (mainly because of our support for God’s People [the children of Israel], and because most of our forefathers feared (respected) Godly principles and precepts.  Even men of government were like that—they used to have prayer sessions in Congress before debating bills in the legislature.  As years went by, we took biblical principles out of our society, beginning with (in OUR era, at least) the prohibition of bible reading in public schools, then prayer; and now we’re trying to redefine “marriage”, and add reading of God’s Word as a crime in our schools to criminal statutes, and so-on.

]]> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:48:23 CST Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:02:20 CST Comment 3 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment3 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/beware-pornography-may-be-coming-to-a-cell-phone-near-you#comment3 As to pornography, it’s been scientifically-proven that it is addicting because observing erotica releases a certain chemical or endorphin that increases the craving for more of the same.  It’s a big problem for men in our CHURCHES too, mostly involving those who aren’t senior citizens yet.
The church however is only a place of fellowship for fellow believers of Christ and a house of worship to give God praise for His Gift of Eternal Life because of what Christ did for us.  We need Christ in a RELATIONSHIP ("NOT" religion) in order to successfully overcome desires of the flesh such as lust,—and NO it doesn’t happen like magic, or happen overnight.  As humans, we have a “sin nature” in the 3rd part of us (our spirit), and the 1st and 2nd parts (body & soul) follow suit with that nature in conjuncion with AND separately from our spirit.  With so many odds against us, both natural AND supernatural, it’s NO WONDER that such a problem as pornography seems unsolvable.

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