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   February 27, 2008

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Two young California pastors say the church isn't facing up to one of the nastiest temptations facing most believers these days, which is pornography. So these men have started up a controversial ministry to take on porn. Pornography's gone big time. Thirty million people are now logging on to some 300,000 porn Web sites daily.Craig Gross of xxxchurch.com (Triple X Church) said, "We've talked to people who've lost jobs because they've been looking at it at work. We've talked to people who've gone bankrupt. We've talked to people whose marriages have been destroyed."With pornography becoming more of a radical problem in society, at least a couple of southern California pastors have decided it needs to be dealt with...radically." So Mike Foster and Gross started up a web ministry that calls itself "The number one Christian porn site." And they set up booths at America's biggest porn conventions. The purpose? To help people break free from porn. Foster said, "I think it's time for Christians to be aware of the issues and be pro-active, and not simply let the wave of pornography sweep over us." And it does hit Christians.Gross said, "We found that the church and the secular world, there's really no difference in who's struggling." For instance, a survey of men at a Promise Keepers rally showed half had looked at porn in the week just before the rally."For so long it kind of was the dirty little secret," Gross continued.. "The church really wanted to pretend and hoped that this thing just goes away." But a survey done by Christianity Today magazine found 37 percent of pastors admit to struggling with pornography.Gross said, "And that's why I think they don't want to talk about it amongst the congregations, because it's something they're personally struggling with."One way to fight back is the xxxchurch.com, a web address deliberately picked to lure porn-seekers who type in the letters "XXX." "And if

  
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you are personally struggling, go to this site, and you are going to realize, you're not alone, that there are other people out there struggling with the same things," said Gross. "We have sections for wives, sections for parents, sections for teenagers. One of them is a prayer wall where you can post your prayers and read about how porn is really affecting others. We have an 800 number where you can call in." Another freebie that xxxchurch.com offers is "accountability software" that shoots off a biweekly list of web sites you've been visiting to two people of your choosing. Exposing Faith Through the XXX Church

   
   
   
   
   
   

MY SON HAS AN ELEPHANT "I need to talk with you and Dad." Those eight words can strike fear into a mother's heart. They certainly frightened me when my 18-year-old son, Brandon,* said them during a typically hurried morning.My husband, Steve, set down his briefcase, and I left our half-prepared lunches on the kitchen counter. We followed our son into our bedroom, closed the door, and settled down onto the bed. Brandon stood in front of us like a condemned man, shifting from one foot to the other. What could be so difficult to say?With a quivering voice, he told us he had an unconfessed sin in his life. Unconfessed sin? Brandon, our sweet Christian son who had never given us trouble? Finally the dam broke, and a flood of pain poured from our child's heart with one simple sentence. "I'm addicted to pornography."Steve and I just stared at our son. I had misunderstood him, of course. I waited for the words to reassemble themselves into the right sequence, into something that would make sense. Brandon continued talking, but I did not comprehend anything else for a couple of minutes. I was still working on that phrase "addicted to pornography." It just had no meaning, at least not in connection with my son.Eventually more words began to cut through my mental fog. Brandon was explaining how he had stumbled onto a cable station, a pornography channel that was supposed to be blocked by the cable company.Brandon said that since then he had watched the channel on many occasions and that, although he had tried over and over to stop, he felt drawn back to it each time. He began crying, saying again that he was addicted and thought he needed

 
   
help. Steve and I roused from our dazed state. I pulled our weeping son down onto the bed between us, and we both hugged him, reassuring Brandon that we loved him and that nothing would ever change that. 'Mom, I'm Addicted to Pornography'
   
   
   
   
 
         
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