Driscoll - Porn-Again Christian

I introduce this series of posts to you as help. I am especially targeting the young the men I minister to and with at Baptist Bible College. You are all human, even though redeemed, you will still sin. That should not be a shocking revelation to you—just look around your dorm for a minute.

Nonetheless, as followers of Christ, and especially as men preparing for ministry, we need to learn how to have victory over sin, and how to put it to death. This is the message of Romans 6, and Paul specifically emphasizes this in Romans 6:11-14, “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. . . . and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”

One huge area of sin that men are susceptible to is the sin of lust, pornography, and/or sexual perversion of just about any kind. The men of BBC are not immune to these sins. And while OSD can regulate many things in your life, spirituality is not one of them. Spiritual wholeness, and putting sin to death (Romans 6), is ultimately a heart issue; including, the issues of lust and sexual perversion.

Knowing this sin issue is so prevalent in Christian men, Pastor Mark Driscoll has made available a free e-book that deals quite frankly and directly with sexual sins by men. It is call: Porn-Again Christianity.

It is something we men need to take very seriously, and Driscoll attacks the problem head on, man-to-man. BBC men, have the courage to read this.

SPECIAL NOTE TO THE LADIES: This is really not for you—Driscoll, as a Pastor, has asked that you not read it as the book deals with things you will just not understand; an moreover, because of the frank language that he uses to make his point with the guys. Please honor his intent and wisdom in that request.

For our purposes, I will deliver the book chapter by chapter - by links to the Porn-Again e-book site - with a few comments of introduction, and at times, a few ideas and questions of application.

Thus, we begin; Driscoll introduces the book this way . . .

I became a Christian at the age of nineteen, started doing ministry as a Bible study leader almost immediately, and planted Mars Hill Church in the fall of 1996 at the age of twenty-five. Prior to my conversion, I had been sexually active and looked at porn. These were the first sins I remember being deeply convicted of as a new Christian and by God’s grace I have been able to walk away from those sins and to Jesus.

Over the years, much of my ministry has been to men in general, and young, single men in particular. The least likely person to go to church in virtually every nation, including my own, is a single man between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four. These guys are a priority for me. As our church began growing, I started pulling these guys together for “boot camps” to speak to them off the record with plain speech about real issues of being men. The guys were responsive and very few had a dad, let alone a Christian dad, and they were clueless about why God made men.

What started as a handful of guys has now grown to a large church that is half single and half married, half male and half female. We have thousands of single men ages eighteen to thirty-four who call Mars Hill home, which is a miracle since we are in one of the least churched cities in our nation and statistically the least likely city in the nation where these guys would attend church. Most of them are new Christians who meet Jesus while in sexual sin of every sort and are fighting to get dominion over their pants.

To help these guys, some years ago I sat down and in one day wrote a small booklet about male sexuality that we published in-house. Since then we have gone through thousands of copies and literally cannot keep it in stock. I asked some Christian publishers if they wanted it, and they said it was too hot to handle and so they declined.

So, I decided to just put it online and give it away for free. The book has had a small amount of editing and rewriting since its original version. We’ll give it away at the Resurgence a bit at a time in conjunction with the Song of Songs series I am preaching titled “The Peasant Princess.” Once the entire book has been put online, it will then be posted as a file that guys around the world can download and read on their computer, forward to their friends, or print copies of to hand out as they like.

I hope this thing goes nuts and hundreds of thousands of guys read it.

In closing, I want to say two things. One, a lot of folks will not like the content or tone of this book and I love them and wish them well. You get what you pay for and this is free. Two, a lot of young guys (and some older guys too) tell me they have been helped by this content and if God uses it to help some guys I would be overjoyed with that. So, let the critics fire away and I’ll gladly take the shots for the guys who are walking wounded in an effort to help them get their shield up and sword sharpened.

Until we see Jesus,
Pastor Mark Driscoll

Read THE INTRODUCTION for today.

By way application, for today, just read this introduction and ask God to open your heart to hear His truth in these matters in your own life, and most importantly, to begin to deal with them honestly.

Blessings
Bill H