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Week 6: Today is our live Q & A Session: Submit your questions here!
October 19, 2008 by jpvaughn
Pornography has become a big issue lately that has torn apart families and churches. Why does the church not address the issue specifically more often?
I want to thank you for this series of difficult issues we all are aware of but never want to talk about. There are many elephants in the church, some very obvious, some, like pornography, which are really the elephant in the livingroom that become a social matter, as well as, a church one. I think this series has given us permission to begin to acknowledge and address these areas of, can I say it, sin; and honestly look at it with a sincere heart. Thank you, pastor, for the willingness to grapple with the hard questions. I think you did a fine job with the elephants you dealt with and look forward to hearing what other “animals” lurk in our surroundings.
I believe the topic of Hell has become an elephant in the church, but it didn’t used to be. Growing up, I remember sermons about Hell all the time. Why has the church gotten away from talking about Hell, Heaven, and eternity? If Christians truly understood what an awful and horrific place Hell was and that people will spend an eternity there, wouldn’t that motivate them to tell more people about Jesus? Isn’t it doing a disservice to Christians and unbelievers by the church not talking about the reality of Hell?