E-Book: Chapter 5 & 6

Chapter 5 is very graphic and specific. If this is an issue for you, read it carefully. If not, I suggest you just move on to Chapter 6. In this chapter of Porn-Again Christian, Pastor Mark Driscoll give a frank exhortation of what it takes to be man in this sick culture that we live in.

This quote is form the middle of the chapter . . .

chapter 6
Manly Men

As God’s man, you will then able to rise above your lusts, but not by works or self-willed deprivation. Instead, God’s grace that alone saves you will also empower you to live life with Jesus and like Jesus. As Paul says in Titus 2:11–12, “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.”

This grace enables us not merely to hide our sin, diminish our sin, justify our sin, or accept it as inevitable. Rather, God’s grace enables us to put to death our sin so that we live dead to sin and alive to Christ where we were previously alive to sin and dead to Christ (Rom. 8:13–14).

Read the rest of the chapter here.

Application: Do some evaluation of your “manhood” today, is it all talk or intent? Or is it real action?

Blessings

Bill H