Jun 6, 2014

The Porn Pandemic

The Porn Pandemic Video: The Devastating Effects on Children, Family and Society (Click Link to Play)


In addition to the above video, here is a reprint of our Sept 2011 ANVIL post on this epidemic by Rev. Al Saunders (from our own PAOC Fellowship):
Pornography 
-The Real Weapon of Mass Destruction
  by Al Saunders  (reprinted from “halftime report”)
According to Focus On The Family research and our own research through Honor Bound Men's Ministries, 65% of Christian men admit to struggling with pornography. So what's the big deal?
Consider these facts:
  • Pornography is a 20 billion dollar a year industry in North America
  • Pornography is addictive - There is a neuro-chemical bond formed between the pleasure experienced and the stimulus that produces it.
  • It is more addictive than cocaine - and quicker.
  • The part of the brain stimulated by pornography is the same part stimulated by cocaine.
  • Pornography appears to encompass all 3 major drug categories:
    • Anti-depressants
    • Anti-anxieties
    • Stimulants
  • The brain has an escalating zero point - It takes more and more of the same thing to stimulate it.

























Pornography continued …
  • Pornography involvement is harder to treat and restore to wholeness than adultery:
    • Adultery diverts the sex drive from God's intended purpose.
    • Pornography perverts the sex drive from God's intended purpose.
    • It dehumanizes women and desensitizes men.
Be aware that you cannot control its lure nor gain victory from it on your own – once you become involved with it! So the best route is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it – even if that means you have to get rid of your cable, satellite dish and/or TV.
Here are two good guidelines from the God’s Word: Job 31:1 – Job stated: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.”
  • 2 Corinthians 10:5b – Paul states: “…we take captive every thought and make it obedient unto Christ.”
There’s the two keys:
  • Covenant with your eyes – discipline where and what you look at.
Take charge of your thoughts.

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