Search Results for “sunday”
There are 26 results.
- You are currently searching All Media
Video:
some christian churches say pornography has become more and more accessible, leading to more problems with addiction and crime. so sunday, churches around the country said enough is enough, and participated in national porn sunday to address the internal pains of porn that millions of americans have to face.
"quite frankly it's talked about everywhere but church often," said church goer katie fisher. she joined thousands of christians in our area and millions nationwide in national porn sunday.
"we're going to kick the devil out of it," said pastor tony scott. during services, he told his congregation there's too much porn saturating our culture. "we're trying to send a message that sexual purity is important for the man and for the woman...for the family...for america. ... this society needs a revival," said scott.
national porn sunday got some help from xxxchurch.com -- a resource for people to get help started by some guys who made a documentary about their experiences with porn. pastors in our area said there is assistance here for anyone. "they don't need to be ashamed of it," said pastor john ransom. "there is help out there and we want to help them any way we can," he added.
people in the seats wanted to hear the message. "a lot of people don't like to talk about it and it's an issue that the church should handle," said member christy flack. "we're making a stand saying that this is a problem and we need to take care of it," said flack.
"a lot of times (people) are trapped and they don't know where to turn...they're afraid to talk to somebody," said member matthew wrozek.
church members told us porn is definitely a detriment to society that shouldn't be passed on to our young people. "so often they hear about sex and pornography from every source, but church and even from their parents," said fisher. "so it's important that we show them what the word of god has to say about pornography and sexual purity."
studies show 9 in every 10 kids ages 8-16 have seen porn online. porn is such a big business, u.s. porn revenues exceed the combined revenues made by nbc, abc and cbs television networks.
wtol.com
