Walk into the average church and you’ll hear no mention of pornography or sexual immorality. Not from the pulpit. Not in Sunday School. Not in small groups. And that’s as it should be. The New Testament teaches us that sexual immorality and uncleanness should not even be named among Christians. In Ephesians, Paul tells us:
“But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”
Ephesians 5:3 NIV
But the reality in the church is different from what Paul has in mind, isn’t it? Sure, few churches mention pornography or sexual immorality, they don’t even hint at it, but pornography, sex outside or marriage and other forms of sexual immorality are rampant in the church. According to a study conducted by the Barna Group, 64% of Christian men admit to viewing pornography at least once a month.
That’s six out of every ten men in your church, watching porn but not talking about it. Engaging in sexual immorality but not confessing it. This is the scandal of our age. It’s the opposite of what Paul intends. Our churches are supposed to be silent on the topic of sexual immorality where our church members are concerned because sexual immorality is a sin that has no place among God’s people. We are supposed to be so holy as a church, so sanctified as individuals, that the mere mention of sexual sin among us should be impossible.
Instead, men in our churches, perhaps you, practice the sin that is not even to be named among believers, never mind practiced. This is the measure of how far the church has drifted from its moorings. This is how far you and I have drifted if we still watch porn. But there is a way out. Paul, through the Holy Spirit, sets the standard—not even a hint of sexual immorality in your life. Not a rumor, not a clue, not a trace, not a whiff. Zero evidence. That can be your standard. Why not change your life, starting right now, so that it gives off not even a hint of sexual immorality?
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