Porn Again Christian

Many of you know I am a fairly huge fan of Mark Driscoll. I relate to his raw off-the-cuff style and we were both born without the verbal filters that enable most people to maintain conversations with tact. Recently Mark published an ebook that he had to make available online only because It’s content was simply too hot for any Christian Publishers to handle it. It’s called Porn Again Christian. It’s wonderful stuff. Check the following excerpt:

"God tells us that his people tend to satisfy their thirst not by drinking from
his streams of living water, but instead drinking from man-made toilets (Jer.
2:13). This metaphor is particularly adept in a world where men such as Tom
Leykis, Dr. Drew, Howard Stern, and a legion of men’s magazines and porno providers
become wealthy by selling glasses of toilet water to thirsty men across our nation, many of whom claim to be sons of God. Meanwhile, the church alone has access to the living water from God’s perfect Word, but largely fails to teach men masculinity in any area,particularly regarding their sexuality. The causes for this sin of omission are many. First, there is a propensity in many churches to take sexuality out of the hands of theologians and place it in the hands of secular counselors, whose philosophy is dominated by unbiblical evolutionary concepts of humanity and gender. This error prevents the church from speaking about men and women because they’re only permitted to see androgynous humanity. Second, the effeminate nature of pastors and churches causes many masculine men to feel unwelcome in what they perceive as an organization solely for women, children, and weaker men. Third, there is a timidity among weak pastors to wade into controversial issues in general, and sexual ones in particular. Lastly, the sad truth is that many pastors are also enslaved to their own sexual sins and/or are languishing in unfulfilling and infrequent sex with their wives, and therefore are unable to speak of sexual matters out of a sense of disqualification. To speak of the matters of pornography and masturbation, I must speak frankly, as frankly as the Scriptures do on important issues. In 2 Timothy 3:16 God says through Paul that, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” These Scriptures that God breathed for our profit include the very frank discussions of sexuality throughout the Song of Songs and Ezekiel."

It just gets better from there…You can read it HERE or download a PDF. Gentlemen of Evergreen Church! Let me suggest to those of you who have smartphones that you download a copy of it and the free PDF reader for your palm or blackberry and keep the book with you. I think it may be something I read every year or every few years to keep this portion of my life pure and holy…may I suggest you do the same?