Posted on 06/18/2014 4:54:34 PM PDT by Morgana
Christians do not pretend to be perfect, or holy, or better than others.....Christians just know their sins....know that they are frail in this evil pandering world....
about the "supply and demand" remark however...I am in total agreement....if conservatives only, or Christians only, or just patriots only gave up their porn addictions there would be no porn industry, and there would be no young women trapped in a life of decadance and drug addiction....
as far as the morals of this country goes,many just need to look in the mirror.
Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY&feature=related
Would it even get a PG-13 if shown in the theaters?
bump
I guess I'd better not admit too much of MY life before the age of 33 here in FR.
Yea but you or I who was far from saintly (not that I am now), are out there trying to recoup our lost porn income through monetizing Christianity either.
He’s the modern version of Roberts/Swaggart et all.
I read it through and I didn't get that impression at all. He was just describing the rewards the world can give, and how addictive they can be, when a person isn't grounded in Christ. He gave God all the credit for His grace and forgiveness.
I understand where he was coming from, trust me. In this sentence “For many years I confused God with the people who claimed to represent Him.” No Christians are not “perfect, or holy, or better than others...” but a lot of them have self righteous piety and make to strives to be holy.
What this man speaks of in his church as a lad, I saw in my former denomination growing up. I promise you that what I saw can lead to very bitter feelings that don’t go away.
This man was a jerk I can tell you that. He said what he said to former members of his church to be a jerk. He felt hurt by them so he set out to make them suffer as he was made to suffer. However as Confucius once said “when you embark on the journey of revenge dig two graves”
I am glad this man left this deathstyle. For him and his family.
“He’s the modern version of Roberts/Swaggart et all.”
How is this man even close to those guys? He was never a TV preacher? A lot of people attend church but are nothing more than pew warmers. Preachers are suppose to set standards, even for the pew warmers.
Because he is now a media figure attempting to spread a bizarre version of Christianity while upping his cred and profiting from it.
Yea, all good Christians should tell people Jesus loves you doing Bukkake videos. thats the real way to get your life straight. “Here, lemmie do your makeup dear, it’s a little smugged...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5zjOl3DpZA
Judge me not ye saints for my history may be tainted
But I’m sober enough to know blood when I see it
I’ve borne my share of stones most of them easily thrown
But who’s to deny your water shed side leading me home?
What am I supposed to do about it now?
Past regrets and long laments, they find me somehow
O, what am I supposed to do about it now?
What have I to do but fall down?
To spy from far away may seem that I’m one to betray
But O, how I try the spirit to guide, the promise you made
What am I supposed to do about it now?
Past regrets and long laments, they find me somehow
O, what am I supposed to do about it now?
What have I to do but fall down?
Hold me up, never let me go
Love me when I am broken and speak to me
What am I supposed to do about it now?
Past regrets and long laments, they find me somehow
O, what am I supposed to do about it now?
What have I to do but fall down?
Songwriters
KNAPP, JENNIFER LYNN
I do not judge whether he is saved or not but there is something unsettling in this.
He reminds me of a “former” satanist I encountered while doing ministry in prison. He got a lot of attention while there for his changed life. But once he got out and couldn’t get attention any more he went back to his old ways.
“Does Playboy count as porn anymore?”
I’m not sure Playboy was ever really “porn”, more like what I’d call a “girlie mag”.
Yes, I looked at some porn when the internet came out, and what I saw scared the cr*p out of me. I warned my kid too, I said, it’s not like what you’d see in playboy, just stay away from it.
It was just ugly, just very very ugly. And I don’t think you can say that Playboy was ever about ugly.
Hustler, etc. that was more like porn.
Eh, I’m a girl, I don’t see what the big deal is. But clearly it leads many people to a bad place.
And I guess pastors don't profit by preaching Christianity?
Are you one of those Christians that expect all sinners to walk into a church, confess their sins and fall on the floor asking to be saved? In real life it doesn't happen that way. This man is going to the sinner not waiting for them to "Come to Jesus". Someone like him can reach sinners that you or I wouldn't have a chance to give testimony to! More power to him.
Why do you consider his version of Christianity bizarre? How do you know what he preaches?
You might want to reread the bit about his newfound appreciation for christians in the porn Biz doing makeup and telling the girls Jesus loves them no matter what they do.
It sounded like to me he’s trying to get them out of that business. Good for him for trying. Someone needs to.
Do me a favor will ya? Next time you are looking at a still picture of a woman in a porn pose do this. Cover up everything and I do mean everything with black construction paper exception for her eyes. Do this so you only see her eyes. Then tell me what you see. I made other men do this. I promise you will gaze into the saddest eyes ever to behold. Some eyes are so “dead” I’m surprised the girl in the pic is still alive, most women (and men) who do porn are dead.
I don’t need to go on a porn quest because that look is the very same look in the eyes of every liberal out there.
Thats why they are liberal. they have an emptiness, a s some say that they try filling with all the wrong stuff.
As to this guy, he seems awfully cockshure, pun intended and sounds like he is selling another product. which his redemption code and ‘a small fee’ indicate.
Someone who hates themselves isn't open to receiving Jesus but someone who is told that Jesus loves them just as they are will be receptive. Preaching "fire & brimstone" to porn stars isn't going to get them to repent and "Come to Jesus". However, love, kind words about Jesus and love will!!!! Jesus didn't wait for sinners to come to Him....He went and sought out the sinners.
“Are you one of those Christians that expect all sinners to walk into a church, confess their sins and fall on the floor asking to be saved? In real life it doesn’t happen that way. This man is going to the sinner not waiting for them to “Come to Jesus”. Someone like him can reach sinners that you or I wouldn’t have a chance to give testimony to! More power to him. “
Can we be very honest here? There are some churches out there that if a man like this walked in and they knew what he did the church would not only have a hissy fit but would more than likely drive him out with torches and pitch forks. It is called “holier than thou” and we don’t want your kind here. You know me, I’ll say it because I have seen people like that. It’s nothing more than a social or country club, some are even cults but they are not even Christian with no mercy for their fellow man.
It is all I can do to bring awareness to how bad porn addiction is to FReepers. Could I ask just a little more that everyone show mercy on ex porn workers?
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