Becoming a Healing Church

Children, teens, men, and women, and even church staff are being impacted by pornography, but the topic is often too taboo for the local church. This deafening silence is harming the local congregation. Christian and secular studies show pornography reduces church attendance, individual faith, feelings of closeness to God, scripture and prayer life, and volunteerism in the local church. However, churches addressing issues like pornography well reverse all of these factors in people's lives. With God, every challenge comes with an opportunity. Every Goliath meets not David, but the Spirit within him. Pornography isn’t a giant to shrink from or shake our heads about; it’s a juncture to show how God’s power turns the miserable into mentors. God rescues people, even Christians, and helps them turn their maladies into ministry. And when the local church sets its heart on this work, that church becomes stronger, producing servants who give greater care to others and make their pastors’ workloads easier.