Because We Are Called to Counter Culture by David Platt

Author:David Platt [Platt, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
ISBN: 9781496405357
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

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SEX SLAVERY

I am ashamed to confess that it wasn’t until recently that I realized the severity of sex trafficking in the world around me. For a long time, the idea of slavery seemed to me a relic of a bygone era centuries before my time. I never could have imagined that there are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. I never could have comprehended that twenty-seven million people live in slavery today—more than at any other time in history. I never could have fathomed that many of these millions are being bought, sold, and exploited for sex in what has become one of the fastest-growing industries on earth.

But even when I heard these numbers, they still seemed distant to me. As long as they were mere numbers on a page, I could insulate and isolate myself from them. Quite honestly, I could live as if they didn’t exist—both the numbers and the individuals they represent.

That all changed when I walked through a village in the Nupri valley of Nepal. For the first time in my life, I came face-to-face with the horrifying reality of what happens in those mountains. I heard story after story of girl after girl, and when I got back to the big city of Kathmandu, I walked past restaurant after restaurant with slaves waiting outside to provide services in cubicles inside. I saw where these girls once lived, and I saw where these girls now work, and no matter how hard I try, I can’t get these sights out of my mind.

When I flew back from Nepal, I landed in Atlanta and drove along Interstate 20 to my home in Birmingham. I have grown up going up and down this interstate that spans all the way to west Texas, and I had no idea that it is the “sex-trafficking superhighway” of the United States. This same road that represents freedom for ten million travelers every year reflects the reality of slavery for countless girls every night. It changes your perspective to realize that the man and young woman at the table next to you at the rest stop may not be what you once thought.

Slavery still exists. And now that I know it does, I have no choice but to do something about it. Further, now that you know it does, you have no choice but to do something about it.

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