BEYOND SEXUAL IMMORALITY
Someone you know has a hidden problem. Perhaps it is your son, daughter, friend, spouse or family member. What you do not know is their secret life of sexual sin. If you know about their struggle with pornography, lust or secret affair, what you don't see is the hidden depths of their heart. What is on the inside is much worse than you can imagine. There you will find “deceitfulness, evil thoughts, adultery, sexual immorality” (Matthew 15:19), a wickedness so unclean it defies sound logic and reason when it corrupts affects career or seemingly good marriage. The pervasiveness of this problem is one of the greatest spiritual challenges facing the Christian church in the postmodern age.
A PLAGUE AMONG US
Most Christians are in deep trouble and anyone who doubt that is spiritually asleep (1 Thessalonians 5:6). To understand the breadth and depth of this crisis in the church we must have the courage to look inside. The problem is not the pornography on the internet or the many opportunities for sexual sin in our sexually saturated cultural. It is the potential for wickedness in our own hearts coupled with secrecy of our personal lives.
The critical questions to ask are:
There is a loud silence that must be pierced before the real problem of sexual sin will be understood and dealt with. We can start on the surface with the all too common examples but we must also go the unseen depths of the human heart. In humility, ask the spirit of God to search your mind, look behind your closed doors, and examine the recesses of your heart. The tales of lust, prostitution, homosexuality, sexual misconduct, addiction to pornography, and adultery etc. should not be repeated. But to ignore the details cause further denial and spiritually corrodes the church.
THE UNCOMMON STORIES