Monday, April 25, 2005

PORN !! With that word alone, I should get a lot more visitors to my blog. I first heard of xxxchurch.com a few weeks ago in my Biola Media conference flyer with a picture of two young guys next to it. I thought it was a ploy by using such a blatent name to draw attention to themselves. Last Thursday when I was a Crave, a college age ministry, they said xxxchurch.com would be there next week. Again, I was appauled, even disgusted. No way was I visiting that site with such wording. Then came the Biola Media Conference movie screening. I could play it safe and see Steve Taylor's movie, staring Michael W. Smith, or see these other guy's documentary about the porn industry called "Missionary Positions". Yup, that's the name of the title. "How could they pick such a name?" I thought, "...because of this I will not see it." Yet, the whole day God was tugging on my heart, and I decided to go into unknown, unsafe territory.

I'm glad I did. These two young ordained pastors (who have full time jobs as pastors in Corona) felt a calling to start an anti-porn website and minister to not only the porn industry, but those who are addicted to it. Their methods may be brash, cutting edge, and even offensive to some, but that may be just what is needed. Nobody is doing this! Porn is a huge problem and people just want to go along and pretend it does not exist! If it is talked about, it is done in a condemming manner. No one wants to be talked down to and condemed; they would rather go one sinning thank you very much. Not with these guys. They confront the problem head on in a loving, straight forward, creative and even funny sometimes manner. Watching the documentary I felt like I was reading stories about the early founders of the church and what adversity they faced, the struggles, sucesses, insurmountable odds, and evil around every corner. Yet I know God is on their side, and when God is on your side, who can be against you?

It is an excellent documentary and I highly reccomend it. Some parts will scare and shock you, but we live in a shocking world. The movie was even made by a non-Christian. He was there, and I know that with his interaction with these two over the past few years, seeds have been planted. It was not random chance that they just happen to meet each other at the airport one day...

Please pray for www.xxxchurch.com and their “virtual church”, the film so it will be picked up by a distributor, as well as the porn industry, and those addicted to it. This is not a problem that will go away anytime soon, and continues to spread like wildfire leaving an even more destructive path perverting what God originally created to be pure and glorious between a man and his wife. Porn is the biggest problem nobody talks about, and it is tearing our kids, family, country, relationships, marriages, nations, world, and relationship with God apart.

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Jason Rasmussen said...

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