This past Sunday we participated in Porn Sunday. A couple hundred other churches joined in to "Confront The Elephant In The Pew". You can learn more at www.PornSunday.com. I encourage you and your church to make plans to participate in '08.
We have a wonderful couple in our community that can offer wisdom and experience in handling with sexual brokenness and/or addiction. Please contact me privately at Ben@MarsHill.tv if you need help!
Here are some of the stats on porn...
Number of pornographic web sites: 4.2 Million (12% of total websites)
68 million daily pornographic searches (25% of total search engine requests)
2.5 billion pornographic emails (8% of total emails)
People who regularly visit Internet porn web sites daily: 40 million.
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home: 47%.
Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites: 65% male - 35% female.
30% of unsolicited e-mails contain pornographic materials.
Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.
Porn revenue is larger than the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.
US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC at $6.2 billion.
The porn industry is a $57 billion dollar industry
Average age of first Internet exposure to porno is 11 years old
Largest consumer of Internet porn 12-17 age group
90% of 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online (most while doing homework)
"Americans aged 13 to 18 spend more than 72 hours a week using electronic media--defined as the Internet, cell phones, television, music, and video games." Source: CNet
"87% of all teens are online." Source: USA Today
70% of teens have viewed pornography.
20% of men admit to accessing porn at work
10% of adults admit to Internet sexual addiction
Child pornography generates $3 billion annually.
13% of women admit to accessing porn at work
17% of all woman struggle with pornographic addiction
Women favor chat rooms 2x’s more than men
1 out of 3 visitors to adult websites are women
9.4 million women access adult websites each month
7 comments:
"Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home: 47%." And that's just the ones willing to say. Only elephant sized? You sure yer not just looking at one part of the elephant, to stretch metaphores to their breaking point?(grin)
Hey Jimmy - thanks for the comment. Not positive I follow your last question exactly. But we definitely feel that the problem is not porn, the problem is the incomplete heart and life that leads us to act out in unhealthy ways. Love to hear more of what you're thinking.
I was reaching for the Blind Men and an Elephant story with that one. Oh well. I'll go out on a limb and say that I believe the problem goes much deeper into the church as a whole body, and not so much the individual members.
Jimmy - I got you now. I actually referenced that parable today, strange.
There is an interesting book I've just begun titled "UnChristian". It is a compilation of research conducted by the Barna Group on the realities of modern day christianity as perceived by 18-29 year olds. The overwhelming experience with christianty and the church today is that it has become largely UnChristian.
So I agree, the church as a whole has in many ways taught people the worst possible way to live. And to borrow from Rob Bell, we believe that following the way of Jesus is the best possible way to live. We must begin to reconcile the difference.
Later.
Ben.
Oh yeah, you can learn more at www.UnChristian.com.
Yes I've heard of the book. It does sound interesting. I have the Barna group site, http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Home
I'll have to look into it.
storming devolution rosny diminished creditwhich physicians logicjohn fancier gross examines underserved
lolikneri havaqatsu
Post a Comment