The Gospel & Pornography by Moore Russell D. & Walker Andrew

Author:Moore, Russell D. & Walker, Andrew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Christian Theology/Ethics
Publisher: B&H Books
Published: 2017-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

These are just a handful of questions, and I admit, some of them can be rather uncomfortable to voice out loud, but they are worth thinking about. Perhaps you have never viewed pornography, but maybe you have seen one too many sex scenes in the movies you have watched, or read about sex too much in women’s magazines. The proliferation of all things sex in our culture is directly related to our struggle against pornography. This is one reason that it is so difficult to combat its power over our own minds and the minds of those we love.

So how can Christians fight against it? How do we live faithfully in a porn-filled culture? Here are a few suggestions:

Have a Healthy View of Sex

This may seem obvious, but if pornography presents a distorted view of sex, the answer to its influence can’t simply be, “Just say no.” We must put forward a healthy alternative to the feeble view of sex that pornography offers us.

It has been said that the constant refrain in our churches for young people to save themselves for marriage has only made our young people confused and afraid of sex. People enslaved to pornography and people who are victims of its grip need more than horror stories and warnings of sexual brokenness and dysfunction. They need to see why the vision of sexuality offered by pornography is not God’s plan in the first place. They need a healthy and biblical view of sex. They need to see God’s beautiful design for marital intimacy in order to fully comprehend the ugliness of pornography and lust. They need to see that God did create them for pleasure, but for a pleasure that finds its joy in the good of another. But most important, they need to see that by finding their joy in the pleasure of another they are actually worshipping God. All good gifts, even the gift of sex, are designed to point us to the giver of that gift. Pornography strips the gift of sex from the God who created it. We can channel the good desires for sex that so many people have away from pornography by showing them that those desires are driving them to the only one who can truly satisfy them completely—our Creator.

This goes beyond church campaigns to celebrate sex. We don’t need to adopt the world’s ideology when it comes to thinking positively about sex. Instead, we must present God’s healthy view of sex to the people in our churches and under our care, not so they can be as sex-experienced as the world around them, but so they can catch a glimpse of God’s intentional, perfect, and loving design for His people. They need to see husbands and wives loving each other in sickness and in health. They need to see husbands finding their wives beautiful even after decades of life, years of childbearing, physical illness, and gravity takes its toll on their wives’ bodies. They need to see wives enjoying

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