The eighth chapter of Real Marriage deals with the issue of pornography. I am not restricting the term porn to material that would be officially categorised as pornographic but I am also including lustfully looking at half-dressed women in advertisements, watching the sex scenes in mainstream films etc.. Therefore, I imagine that almost every Christian man has some history with this.
The Driscolls writes,
This chapter may have been as brutal for you to read as it has been brutal for us to write. We have sought to sand the varnish off porn and sinful lust so as to see it for what it truly is - a horrific evil with no redeeming value. As horrific as these evils are, people enslaved by them are not beyond the redeeming grace of God made available through Jesus Christ. In closing, we offer some practical advice for those to be free of porn and sinful lust ...You must be honest with yourself ...You must be honest with God ...You must be honest with your spouse ... How much detail you share is important. If you share too much, he or she could be haunted for life. If you share too little, your spouse will not really know the truth and may allow his or her imagination to male things worse than they really are ...You must put your sexual sin to death by the grace of God ...You must submit to God the Holy Spirit ...You must practise sexual contentment ...You must think in terms of legacy ...
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