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Posted: Tue Oct 23rd, 2007 01:13 am |
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| I am currently working on a doctoral ministry project about the impact of online sexual activity (including internet pornography, chat rooms, net dating, cybersex, etc.) on marriage and family life. What do churches need to know about this issue? How have you experienced (or not experienced) grace through the church? I know this is a loaded post. Feel free to send me a PM, if you're more comfortable with that.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23rd, 2007 02:48 am |
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Dear PH, Welcome to our Forum.
In my experience, nothing of the above helps...
Only when I surrender to God, and when I abide in Him and Him in me, He set me free. Only when I live as what His Word taught me.
Churches need to know about the seriousness of this sin, and how God's wrath is upon those sins. I am blessed to be with brothers and sisters who took a stand on sexual sins, and have the courage (and grace) to confront me of my sins.
This is all that I can write for now, feel free to browse the posts here, and I think you will find your answers...
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Posted: Tue Oct 23rd, 2007 02:52 am |
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| Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. From reading some of the posts on this forum, it is clear that there are many different responses to the experience of sexual compulsion and addiction. God bless you as you continue your journey.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23rd, 2007 08:20 am |
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I don't think it's a loaded question, but it's certainly a very large one. The only things on your list (including Other) that haven't been useful for me are the 2 software options, which simply distracted me from where the real problem lay - it turns out I have a problem, but my computer is fine.
I'm not quite clear what you're looking for at this point. In 2 different incarnations on this board and on some other boards, though, I've written tens of thousands of words on my life as an addict and on my recovery so far. Perhaps there's stuff in there that you might find useful, and I'm certainly open to additional questions. I recently posted a thread on the General Discussion board here that might serve as an introduction to me and to my earliest recovery. As an Orthodox Christian, I'm something of a theological outlier on this board, though, so how useful my experience might be to Protestants, I'm not sure. My experience really consists very heavily of porn and nothing else, too; so I offer a rather narrow window on the whole spectrum of online sexual activity.
Should more conversation seem useful on further reflection, I'd be willing to consider exploring that possibility.
Tim M.
Last edited on Tue Oct 23rd, 2007 08:24 am by TimM
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