The Chesterfield Daily » God http://chesterfielddaily.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:14:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Looking back at the Porn & Pancakes forum http://chesterfielddaily.net/looking-back-at-the-porn-pancakes-forum/ http://chesterfielddaily.net/looking-back-at-the-porn-pancakes-forum/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:22:52 +0000 Chris http://chesterfielddaily.net/looking-back-at-the-porn-pancakes-forum/ Porn and Pancakes is not watching porno and having breakfast together, it’s actually mens’ gatherings where the effects of porn are talked about in a small community environment. The program discussed the addictive epidemic of pornography affecting everyone in our culture. As it was pointed out, this issue in particular is the “big blue elephant in the room” that no one wants to deal with or even admit. This is particularly the case within the church, as sexual sin is the #1 issue.

xxxchurch.comThe two speakers that came from XXX Church were Jason Harper (outreach pastor from Sacramento) and Donny Pauling (former porn producer). They mentioned the three goals of XXX Church:

  • truly love and care for those in the porn industry (not their actions, but the people)
  • provide tools and guidance for people addicted to pornography
  • bring awareness to the church on these issues

Given Donny’s background, they spent considerable time detailing some of the inner workings and experiences from one who worked in the porn industry. There is a LOT that was said, but they actually have most of it in audio format (go here). I will try to sum it up that it creates an “unhealthy fantasy world”, but also causes a wave of destruction in relationships and life to those that get involved in being part of porn or to those that are obsessed with viewing porn. I do want to point out that XXX Church is not advocating toward ending the porn industry – just bringing awareness to the actual reality of the industry.

So, the question then becomes if you are thinking right now that maybe you do have a problem, what do you do? XXX Church has identified three steps:

  1. Confess you have a problem!
  2. Tell others! Porn is definitely a big “alone” thing, so get someone else setup that you will have to be accountable to. XXX Church gives away free X3Watch accountability software.
  3. Clean it up – get rid of what you have and stop continuing the habit

New Venture Christian Church has kept the website up for the event but with resources linked – go here to find out further.

The Chesterfield Observer wrote an article titled “Porn & Pancakes” that made the front cover a few days before the event. The Richmond Times-Dispatch had a writer who was there (at least afterwards), who wrote the article “Evils of porn discussed at forum“.

]]> http://chesterfielddaily.net/looking-back-at-the-porn-pancakes-forum/feed/ 1 Porn and Pancakes forum comes to Chesterfield http://chesterfielddaily.net/porn-and-pancakes-forum-comes-to-chesterfield/ http://chesterfielddaily.net/porn-and-pancakes-forum-comes-to-chesterfield/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:13:30 +0000 Chris http://chesterfielddaily.net/porn-and-pancakes-forum-comes-to-chesterfield/ New Venture Christian Church will be co-hosting with XXXchurch a ‘Porn and Pancakes’ breakfast and forum this Saturday, October 13 at Midlothian Middle School. Starting at 8am, breakfast will be served. At about 9:30am, the program will begin.

The program will address the porn issue from speakers who have traveled the country. The porn challenge is one every man faces in some way. Even more shockingly, our kids do. The top user of internet porn is the 12-17 year age group. No one should feel singled out – it is a battle we all struggle with. Event is only for men and sons. There is a front page story on this event out in the Chesterfield Observer.

More information on this event

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