If Porn Is So Despicable, Then Why Do So Many Pastors Spend Time At Porn Sites?

[Minnesota]

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Preachers and Porn
With temptation online, they need help logging off

By Dirk Johnson and Hilary Shenfeld

NewsweekApril 12 issue - Alone in his study at a church in suburban Dallas, Pastor Bernie Anderson toiled on his sermon. Searching for the proper message for his Seventh-Day Adventist flock, the preacher turned to the computer. He clicked on sites for theological essays, stories of Christian history, Hebrew translations. On the wall was a symbol of his mission: a portrait of Jesus bearing the cross. But temptation beckons all, even the man who stands behind the pulpit. Fingers trembling, he clicked on another site. The key word: sex. "It was very raunchy stuff, but I couldn't stop," says Anderson, an earnest and soft-spoken man. He was racked with guilt. "You feel like, 'I'm a pastor. I'm not supposed to have this problem'."

As a pastor with a weakness for porn, he is scarcely an oddity. Some 40 percent of clergy have acknowledged visiting sexually explicit Web sites, according to a 2000 survey conducted by Christianity Today and Leadership magazines. The results surprised some pastors, says Eric Reed, the managing editor of Leadership, a magazine aimed at Protestant clergy. "They said, 'Wow, I'm surprised the numbers are so low'." After hearing from so many pastors battling obsession with porn, the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family launched a Web site offering help: pureintimacy.org. Treatment groups like Stone Gate Resources, based in Larkspur, Colo., offer help with intensive counseling at residential retreats.

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Ah, The Hypocrisy Of It All "Don't do as I do, do as I say"

[Blemonds]

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Ah, The Hypocrisy Of It All "Don't do as I do, do as I say"

That's why we need a Savior

[Minnesota]

Hmmmm. I wasn't aware that hypocrisy was something from which one's soul needed to be saved.

[Xavier]

Hmmmm. I wasn't aware that hypocrisy was something from which one's soul needed to be saved.

No... But Sin is.

[Minnesota]

No... But Sin is.

Okay. But ?????????????

[Xavier]

Okay. But ?????????????

But what? Pastors are people, too.

[Minnesota]

But what?

But, what has a pastor's sin to do with the fact that hypocrisy is not something from which one's soul needs to be saved?

[Xavier]

But, what has a pastor's sin to do with the fact that hypocrisy is not something from which one's soul needs to be saved?

Sin is the reason that people need a saviour, even pastors. The point was that its not surprising that pastors are people and sin just like anyone else.

[Bob Jenkins]

That's why we need a Savior

Perhaps so, Blemonds - but be sure to get rid of the middle man.

[Bob Jenkins]

There was a poll of Christian women that visited porn sites. In another thread, 33% were so identified. At least they exhibited no hyposcrisy

[Blemonds]

Perhaps so, Blemonds - but be sure to get rid of the middle man.

What middle man? there is only one mediator between man and God

[yxboom]

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Ah, The Hypocrisy Of It All "Don't do as I do, do as I say"

Sounds to me you answered your own question about why porn is so dispeccable. Just as herione is so dispeccable, cause it is so harmful and addicting.

[Bob Jenkins]

What middle man? there is only one mediator between man and God

All those that interpret the Bible and establish creeds and dogma. Those that establish authoritive religious organizations and split from others. You'd be better off with the middle man you refer to.

[Xavier]

All those that interpret the Bible and establish creeds and dogma. Those that establish authoritive religious organizations and split from others. You'd be better off with the middle man you refer to.

Well that is why we're hear discussing such things as Biblical interpretation and Church Doctrine...

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

[Kulindrichnus]

What middle man? there is only one mediator between man and God

I know what you mean, but you might want to dwell on the dictionary meaning of 'mediator'.

K