Pornography
in church is a problem we in churches don’t like talking about. When I say “we”
I mean rank and file church members as well as pastors. Whenever I preach about
sexual issues—whether pornography, homosexuality, sex before marriage or purity
in general—people get anxious. I do too!
It’s not easy to talk publically about things that are inherently so private.
At the same time, God’s Word isn’t silent about any of those things and I want always
to speak in a way that’s faithful to Him.
Like
all preachers (or most preachers—some of my colleagues in ministry place more
value on shock tactics than I do) I’m also deeply conscious of the wide variety
of people in my congregation. What I need to say to a thirty-year-old man
struggling with porn, for instance, wouldn’t be appropriate for an
eight-year-old girl to hear or for her mother squirming beside her wondering
how she’s going to explain what the preacher just said when they get home.
