[No name given]

How hard is it to understand sex is only for marriage? If you have a problem with the laws of God, take it up with Him.

[daniel1212]

Notice that as with David, the fall from grace (but David manifestly repented as soon as he was fingered/convicted) came while they were essentially at ease in Zion, not in the heat of battle. The former, esp. once we have reached a level of establishment, is when we are most vulnerable, and least watchful, as to some degree I have found myself.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Did you know that 50% of pastors view porn on a regular basis?”

How exactly can the author claim this as a fact?

[fidelis]

Those within the Church, if they are not regularly taking the grace and means provided by Christ to grow in holiness will not simply not grow holy-- they will grow less holy, more and more configuring themselves to the world and less and less to Christ. The sins among Christians--including Christian leaders-- is a reflection of the sinfulness and permissive mores of the times they live in. In the times when we were a more moral society, people at least gave lip service to the virtues and adhered to them, if for no other reason, because there were social and sometimes legal consequences. And it was more or less easier to do because society as a whole by and large acknowledged the goodness of God's laws. Now that hardly anyone knows what the virtues are (let alone try to strive after them), practically everything is permissible.

Not every fallen Christian or Christian leader starts out as a hypocrite, but eventually, small compromise after small compromise, "small" sin after "small" sin, they are able to justify it in their own minds because they are not holding themselves up to Christ's standard, but the world's and they think that as long as no one else knows, they are doing OK. Then when they fall, they fall hard. Their deeds are suddenly exposed by the light and there are no more rationalizations or excuses to hide behind.

[Honest Nigerian]

50%?
Pastors?
On a regular basis?
And you are an expert on this?

[bethelgrad]

Ravi’s fall broke my heart. He was the last person I expected to have these kinds of secrets.

[Clutch Martin]

Everybody that goes to church is in that church for a reason and most of them are not pleasant reasons, those bottom of the barrel reasons.

People are broken, might never feel right ever again kind of broken.

Sometimes I wonder how far removed church is from AA.

But bless their hearts cuz a lot of people out there are working hard to try to make those that are hurting feel better about themselves. That’s all that matters and if there’s call out for salvation so much the better.

[NetAddicted]

Porn addiction effects the brain like a drug?