A leader of a huge ministry told me that fully 40% of ministers that go to his meetings have confessed that their greatest personal struggle is with using Internet pornography.
Here is a quick account from a pastor from our discussion board... http://www.wisechoice.net/discuss
"It is so sick that as a pastor that I must pretend to be cleaner and less sinful than other men. if I were to come clean to my congregation I would lose my job.
I have finally found another pastor friend that I have been able to get into an accountability relationship. We have both put filters on our computers and activated the accountability reporting. It has changed everything knowing that my brother will call me if he gets a notification that I am falling...the same for him.
The joke is that when people ask why there is a filter on the church computers I tell them , "that you never know who might be coming into the church and use the computers to access pornography.....oh well."
Some years ago another pastor of a prominent church was caught by his elder board and kicked out for using pornography. The church had a wonderful tracking program on the computers but did not have any filtering. The sense of it was that ministers must put their pants on differently than other people yet those of us that understand spiritual warfare know that ministers are not only human but that they are a particularly big target that the enemy loves to destroy.
Maybe if we were to bring the subject of porn use in the church into the light then perhaps we could encourage each other to do something about it. If we were all pro-actively installing protection on our computers then perhaps the the pastors and the 50% of the men in the congregations using porn would have a way out. That's right-50% of Christian men who use the the Internet are using porn...
So what are we going to do about it? If history tells us any thing, the answer is, "nothing".
About the Author:
Since 1998 after nearly falling into this same trap I began to hunt for solutions for porn use by adults. I came up with a combination of a filtering technology and accountability reporting called Wisechoice.net. Rather than a solution designed for guarding children, Wisechoice is designed to protect husbands and marriages from porn. The addictive properties are such that putting a wall around ones self is often the only way short of getting rid of the computer entirely and it is effective. I would suggest checking our solution out or one of the other filters available.
Here is a quick account from a pastor from our discussion board... http://www.wisechoice.net/discuss
"It is so sick that as a pastor that I must pretend to be cleaner and less sinful than other men. if I were to come clean to my congregation I would lose my job.
I have finally found another pastor friend that I have been able to get into an accountability relationship. We have both put filters on our computers and activated the accountability reporting. It has changed everything knowing that my brother will call me if he gets a notification that I am falling...the same for him.
The joke is that when people ask why there is a filter on the church computers I tell them , "that you never know who might be coming into the church and use the computers to access pornography.....oh well."
Some years ago another pastor of a prominent church was caught by his elder board and kicked out for using pornography. The church had a wonderful tracking program on the computers but did not have any filtering. The sense of it was that ministers must put their pants on differently than other people yet those of us that understand spiritual warfare know that ministers are not only human but that they are a particularly big target that the enemy loves to destroy.
Maybe if we were to bring the subject of porn use in the church into the light then perhaps we could encourage each other to do something about it. If we were all pro-actively installing protection on our computers then perhaps the the pastors and the 50% of the men in the congregations using porn would have a way out. That's right-50% of Christian men who use the the Internet are using porn...
So what are we going to do about it? If history tells us any thing, the answer is, "nothing".
About the Author:
Since 1998 after nearly falling into this same trap I began to hunt for solutions for porn use by adults. I came up with a combination of a filtering technology and accountability reporting called Wisechoice.net. Rather than a solution designed for guarding children, Wisechoice is designed to protect husbands and marriages from porn. The addictive properties are such that putting a wall around ones self is often the only way short of getting rid of the computer entirely and it is effective. I would suggest checking our solution out or one of the other filters available.
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