found i worldmag, 10.19.13, p52f...'fleeting images by j.c. derrick and angela lu
..richard (we're using only first names to preserve privacy,
now a youth pastor (note: isn't he disqualified?) in his mid 30s,
cites his 15 year addiction to porn as the prime reason he's still single.
'it has kept me from healthy relationships with women
(and) drastically affected my maturity in Christ (note: not to mention effectiveness in ministry)
he's not alone:
in one generation the average marriage age in the US today
jumped from the early 20s
to 29 for men and 27 for women.
...john piper agrees: (a woman)..asked him if a boyfriend's porn addiction
should be a deal breaker
-piper's response became one of his most popular podcasts ever.
he noted four problems with porn:
it is unloving to the women picture,
adulterous,
destructive to man's capacity to love real women,
destructive to a man's soul and his capacity to see God.
...90% of all boys
and 60% of all girls
will see pornography before they turn 18
-including large amounts of deviant behavior,
such as bestiality, group sex and child porn.
(note: one way to see it all is that the more enslaved, dysfunctional or desperate we become,
the more focused, the One who came not for the healthy but for the sick, is on us-ready to meet
our need.
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