> 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.
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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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