Escaping the World Wide Web of Temptation

 
‘Beloved, I urge you... abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.’ 1 Peter 2:11
I've been doing an informal survey over the last couple of years and have been asking men who have regular access to the Internet this same question: 'Do you struggle with the temptation to view pornography online?' You may be surprised at the results...

My unofficial survey so far has yet to yield a single response in the negative. In other words, every single man that I have asked, who has regular and unsupervised access to the Internet, has admitted to occasionally struggling with the temptation to view pornography online. For some of them it has been an almost constant struggle.

Admittedly, my small survey was not very scientific. But a more extensive Christianity Today leadership survey reported that 51% of pastors say cyberporn is a temptation and 37% said it was a current struggle. 4 in 10 pastors admitted to having visited a pornographic website. According to a survey conducted for Focus on the Family in 2000, 17.8% of all born again Christian adults (in America) admit to having visited sexually oriented websites. 63% of men attending 'Men, Romance & Integrity Seminars' admitted to struggling with pornography in the previous year. Two-thirds of these were in church leadership and 10% were pastors. 1 in 7 calls to Focus' Pastoral Care Line is about Internet pornography...

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Thursday, November 9, 2006   printer friendly version | 1692 reads