You Don't Have a Porn Problem

I agree with him from the perspective that while vulgarity and Christianity are not supposed to go together, we live in an age where sin is downplayed and minimized as opposed to loathed and despised. Frankness is needed for repentance to begin.

Edit: What he could have said that would not have been quite as distasteful is that "if you have a porn problem, you likely commit an act or repeated acts of personal fornication. So, you have a fornication problem. you are a fornicator.

Perhaps putting it that way or similarly would lessen the coarseness but still have the desired effect of awareness.
 
Is this ghost of Mark Driscoll past?
 
I'm not sure I agree that it's always a masturbation problem. 
 
Plenty of marriages end over money issues.
 
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Reformed Guy said:
T-Bone said:
Is this ghost of Mark Driscoll past?
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Far from it.  It's more like the ghost of Ezekiel 23 past.
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Oh, so the author was using a metaphor for idolatry, child sacrifice, partying, drunkenness, extravagance and giving the temple food that was to have been for the nourishment of children. It all makes sense now.  ::)
 
subllibrm said:
Plenty of marriages end over money issues.
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Among other things.

Divorces among people I have personally known:

Husband wanted to leave a church but the wife didn't. Pastor told her to let him leave so he did and their marriage dissolved.

Husband and wife with no kids across the street: His parents from another state kept begging him to come back "home" to take care of them. His wife had a good job and friends and didn't want to leave. They split and divorced.

Friends of my kids: "Christian" husband would verbally berate his wife and daughters, calling them "B...chs" and worse on a regular basis while making his son almost an angelic being. He then began physically grabbing his wife to "force" her to do chores around the house and then started slapping her. She took the girls and left. They are divorced.

Former next door neighbor: He was an alcoholic, she couldn't take it so she took the kids and moved to another state. She divorced.

Current friend who is a Christian: former addict, clean for 15 years after his salvation until he got a back injury. He was prescribed on a pain medication and got addicted. I've helped him get to rehab and counseling and they are still married but doesn't look good at this point.

Last two churches: Each family had several kids with one special needs child, each in a wheelchair that required additional expenses and efforts to deal with. The father in the last church couldn't take the pressure and left. The wife in my current church was the one who went into depression and she left (within the last month).

Church friend: Her former husband was a pastor (Charismatic, not Evangelical) and they had an autistic child. He said he could not take care of the child and pastor at the same time so after she refused to put the child in a special facility, he kicked her and the child out of the house because he was "too devoted to his ministry" to deal with it.

Not only money issues, but mental health issues, addictions, family issues, people moving from common ideals to separate belief systems, differences in religious beliefs, abuse (physical, mental, verbal), clinical depression, physical health issues, dealing with disabled family members, etc. There are a myriad of non-sexual issues that trigger couples into divorcing.

 
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