Comments on: Pastors and Porn http://natelarkin.com/v2/2009/07/08/pastors-and-porn/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: billreichart http://natelarkin.com/v2/2009/07/08/pastors-and-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-17 billreichart Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:41:15 +0000 http://natelarkin.com/v2/?p=3#comment-17 Pastors don't seem to have the privilege like anyone else to admit their temptations or addictions, and therefore as they stay in the darkness they become more and more deep and dangerous. We need to stop these games and start talking more and more about the issue and bringing it into the light. Right now the church has a don't ask and don't tell policy on pornography http://www.PornFreedom.org Pastors don’t seem to have the privilege like anyone else to admit their temptations or addictions, and therefore as they stay in the darkness they become more and more deep and dangerous. We need to stop these games and start talking more and more about the issue and bringing it into the light. Right now the church has a don’t ask and don’t tell policy on pornography http://www.PornFreedom.org

]]> By: dbaugher http://natelarkin.com/v2/2009/07/08/pastors-and-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-11 dbaugher Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:14:58 +0000 http://natelarkin.com/v2/?p=3#comment-11 Your transparency with this issue is incredibly powerful for those in the ministry. Do I have your permission to re-post on our Linedin and Facebook accounts? Your transparency with this issue is incredibly powerful for those in the ministry. Do I have your permission to re-post on our Linedin and Facebook accounts?

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Thanks be to the Living God who saved me out of that fiery hell!

We NEED a safe place where pastors can anonomously speak there hearts and minister to each other!

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]]> By: Luke Gilkerson http://natelarkin.com/v2/2009/07/08/pastors-and-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Luke Gilkerson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:35:37 +0000 http://natelarkin.com/v2/?p=3#comment-2 I was a campus minister for years, and all the while a strong porn addiction grew amidst a budding ministry. I hated what I was doing, but couldn't seem to break free. I believe my own addiction was built on a foundation of "relational fantasy." For years as an adolescent I was wrapped up in a fantasy world. I would cast my latest crush as the leading lady in the movie of my mind. There she would read the script I gave her. This movie was more about me than her. The theme of the movie was more about my attractiveness, how she saw me, how “irresistible” I was. Porn only later supplied me with a new cast of characters and a variety of settings. The outward attractiveness of the woman on the screen was only a prop that made this fantasy of personal validation complete. In these movies I was the star, the desired one. Sinfully bitter at a world that refused to revolve itself around me, I created a new world in the theater of my mind. This, ironically, was part of the reason I may have gone into ministry as well: I wanted to create a world where I was admired. I never would have thought the same sinful root could prompt something so seemingly good (drive for ministry) and something so bad (porn addiction). I thank God he sent people along to help me unearth this sort of sin. (James 5:16; Hebrews 3:13; Galatians 6:1-2). Thanks, Nate, for the probing honesty you have and the permission your story gives to the rest of us. http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/01/24/brain-chemicals-kirk-franklin-and-walking-trees/ I was a campus minister for years, and all the while a strong porn addiction grew amidst a budding ministry. I hated what I was doing, but couldn’t seem to break free.

I believe my own addiction was built on a foundation of “relational fantasy.” For years as an adolescent I was wrapped up in a fantasy world. I would cast my latest crush as the leading lady in the movie of my mind. There she would read the script I gave her. This movie was more about me than her. The theme of the movie was more about my attractiveness, how she saw me, how “irresistible” I was. Porn only later supplied me with a new cast of characters and a variety of settings. The outward attractiveness of the woman on the screen was only a prop that made this fantasy of personal validation complete. In these movies I was the star, the desired one. Sinfully bitter at a world that refused to revolve itself around me, I created a new world in the theater of my mind.

This, ironically, was part of the reason I may have gone into ministry as well: I wanted to create a world where I was admired. I never would have thought the same sinful root could prompt something so seemingly good (drive for ministry) and something so bad (porn addiction).

I thank God he sent people along to help me unearth this sort of sin. (James 5:16; Hebrews 3:13; Galatians 6:1-2).

Thanks, Nate, for the probing honesty you have and the permission your story gives to the rest of us.

http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/01/24/brain-chemicals-kirk-franklin-and-walking-trees/

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