Originally posted at: https://prevailingwordministries.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/pastors-porn/
According to the recoveryvillage.com site, “40 million U.S. adults regularly visit internet pornography websites. 10% of U.S. adults admit to having an addiction to internet pornography. 17% of all women struggle with porn addiction. 20% of men and 13% of women admit to accessing porn while at work. Sep 13, 2022″
Covenanteyes.com says “It’s projected that virtual reality (VR) porn should be a $1 billion business by the year 2025. That’s third behind an expected $1.4 billion virtual reality video game market and $1.23 billion VR NFL-related content.”
This is a significant problem.
Whenever there’s new technology, the porn industry looks to exploit the technology because money is involved.
The southern border in the United States isn’t just an opioid/fentanyl situation. Human trafficking for the sex trade whether prostitutes, adult film, pedophilia, or sodomy is on going.
To close the border, it wouldn’t stop the trade as there would be other ways to exploit.
As usual, believers and pastors are in the mix.
Again, according to Covenanteyes.com “1 in 5 youth pastors and 1 in 7 senior pastors use porn on a regular basis and currently struggling. That’s more than 50,000 U.S. church leaders.
43% of senior pastors and youth pastors say they have struggled with pornography in the past.
64% of Christian men and 15% of Christian women say they watch porn at least once a month.
Only 7% of pastors report their church has a ministry program for those struggling with porn.
There’s 330,000 Protestant Churches in the United States. For 43% of senior pastors to struggle with porn, this is roughly (I could be wrong), 120,000 to 140,000 senior pastors.
Because 50% of 330,000 is 165,000.
No one watches porn without masturbation to release sexual tension. Or for men and women to release sexual tension other than their wives or husbands, they’ll seek hotels, church members, male or female, or prostitutes.
Sexual immorality is a real issue and satan will not stop.
Pornography is a major stronghold in the world and as long as there’s an audience, the chains remain.
Which means that you may be in a church where porn is a regular mainstay with a pastor. It’s no wonder why there’s such a fight not to repent of sexual sins in the preachers. Because if the preachers, entrusted with living holy and giving the Word of God is to live blameless lives, can’t live holy lives, just imagine what’s going on in the pews.
It’s no wonder that when holiness is preached, people make for the exits.
Sexual immorality is the one stronghold that Satan will fight to keep because if he could keep a church from being effective, then the gospel will be of no effect.
