The Pastor and Pornography
Watch Out! To a Pastor Indulging in Pornography
By Andy Naselli | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Pastor, are you regularly indulging in pornography and rationalizing to yourself why it’s okay for you to do that? If that describes you, then you are in danger.
How to Respond When a Servant, an Elder, or the Preacher Struggles with Pornography
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018How should we respond we a public servant, an elder, or the preacher confesses to looking at pornography?
When Your Pastor-Husband Looks at Porn
By Carrie Kell | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018The sting of pornography has struck many marriages. The way forward can feel confusing and demoralizing. But there’s hope.
Does Pornography Use Disqualify a Pastor?
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018The question I want us to consider is this: how do we discern whether or not a pastor who sins with pornography is disqualified?
Can We Restore Pastors After Sexual Sin: A Short Answer
By John Piper | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Can we restore pastors after sexual sin?
Can We Restore Pastors After Sexual Sin: A Longer Answer
By Jared C. Wilson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018When a pastor has disqualified himself from his ministry, is he disqualified from ministry altogether? If so, for how long? Forever? Can he ever be restored? If so, how soon?
The Church and Pornography
Corporate Consequences of Unchecked Porn Use
By Jason Seville | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018If porn goes unchecked, the corporate consequences will be pervasive.
How Do Church Members Fight Porn Addiction Together?
By Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018What would it mean to fight pornography together? What would it look like to cultivate a culture where leaders and members help one another?
Discipling a Generation Who Grew Up with Porn
By Allen Duty | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Unfortunately, many young people don’t remember a time without unlimited access to pornography.
Are There Good and Bad Kinds of Accountability?
By Jaime Owens | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018We need to foster better, more vertical accountability in our churches. How do we do that?
Cultivating a Culture of Transparency in Your Church
By James Choi | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018We should pray that our members would understand the need to make our relationships transparent—to share embarrassing things about ourselves, to speak honestly, and to ask one another careful, loving questions
How to Make Your Church a Safe Space for Confession
By PJ Tibayan | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Local churches ought to be the “safest space” for Christians to confess sins in general and sins tied to pornography in particular.
Killing an Increasingly Tolerated Sin
By Vergil Brown | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018The temptation for the Christian is to redefine sexual purity according to the shifting standards of morality.
Tools for the Pastor
Does Pornography Use Ever Justify Church Discipline?
By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018At what point, if ever, does a persistent pattern of pornography warrant church discipline?
The Sins Behind the Sin of Pornography
By John Henderson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Pornography flourishes under the right conditions—within a broader ecosystem of sins, struggles, and situations. It never operates in isolation.
What to Say When a Church Member Asks for Help
By Clint Darst | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018When a church member first confesses pornography consumption, they’re usually relieved to admit their battle and get help in their fight.
Helping Women Who Struggle with Pornography
By Stephanie Laferriere | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018“Men, what do you view on your screens when no one is watching?” This question will bury some women in shame.
Helping Women Whose Husbands Struggle with Pornography
By Jeremy Yong | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018These foundational truths should help us pastors minister to the hurting hearts of sisters whose husbands struggle with pornography
8 Tips for Fighting Pornography
By Paul Jeon | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018We must continue to struggle, for this is why God’s grace has been revealed, that we might be delivered from all lawlessness and pursue upright and holy lives as we await Christ’s return. Our Lord demands nothing less.
How to Counsel Couples Through Past Sexual Sin
By Scott Croft | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Practically, let’s talk about when and how pastors can guide dating or engaged couples through difficult conversations about past sexual sin.
Is Pornography Use Ever Grounds for Divorce?
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.29.2018In Matthew 5:32 and 19:9, Jesus gives grounds for divorce based on sexual immorality (porneia). Does pornography use qualify?
Book Reviews
Book Review: Captured by a Better Vision: Living Porn Free, by Tim Chester
Review by Dave Gobbett | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018In this wide-ranging, honest, and profoundly gospel-centred book, Chester demonstrates that the contemporary pornography pandemic which is crippling lives and ministries is fundamentally a problem of idolatry.
Book Review: The Game Plan, by Joe Dallas
Review by Nate Keeler | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Overall, I would strongly recommend The Game Plan as a tool for discipling men through habitual sexual sin, especially pornography.
Book(s) Review: Hide or Seek, by John Freeman; Sexual Sanity For Men, by David White
Review by Raymond Johnson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Sexual wholeness is vital to healing, and these resources will help pastors better structure small groups in ways that facilitate a more open and safe place for people to come and share their experiences and struggles.
Book Review: Wired for Intimacy, by William Struthers
Review by Deepak Reju | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Those who want to understand the biology that contributes to porn addiction will be well served by Struthers’ book.
Book Review: Sexual Detox, by Tim Challies
Review by Justin Perry | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018Sexual Detox is a wonderful book, and it is atop my recommended reads for those who struggle with pornography.
Book Review: Finally Free, by Heath Lambert
By Nick Dorsey | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018The best commendation I can give for this book is that I regularly give it away to my church members and use it in discipleship groups and in counseling.
Episode 64: On Equipping the Church to Fight Pornography Together (with Deepak Reju)
By D. Reju, J. Leeman, M. Dever | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 11.13.2018It’s vital for individual Christians to pursue holiness. But how can church members work *together* in fighting against the sin of pornography?
Episode 63: On The Pastor and Pornography (with Garrett Kell)
By G. Kell, J. Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 11.06.2018In this episode of Pastors’ Talk, Garrett Kell shares his own past struggles with pornography, and offers counsel to pastors who are currently hiding with secret sin.
Book Review: Purity Is Possible, by Helen Thorne
Review by Jonathan Rourke | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Pornography | 10.30.2018What makes this book different? It’s written by a woman, engages the topic from a feminine perspective, and reveals why so many are using the erotic to escape reality.
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