Porn Sunday How To Maintain Moral Purity Doug Doyle Fort McMurray Alliance Church

1. Porn Sunday How To Maintain Moral Purity Doug Doyle Fort McMurray Alliance Church February 3, 2013

3. “I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” • Matthew 5:28| NIV

4. “Guys who do not watch porn do not exist.” • Simon Lajeunness, • University of Montreal • December 2009

5. 3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified (holy): that you should avoid sexual immorality … 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. • 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 | NIV

7. Porn Sunday • The Pervasiveness of Porn

8. Stats on Youth Pornography • 11 years of age: average age of one’s first internet exposure to pornography. • 12 to 17 years olds: Largest consumer of internet pornography. • 80%: The percentage of 15 to 17 years olds having hard core exposure to pornography. • 90%: The percentage of 8 to 16 year olds who have viewed porn online – most while doing homework.

9. Porn Sunday • The Pervasiveness of Porn • The Pain and Damage of Porn

10. Six weeks of exposure to pornography can: • Lead to an increased callousness towards women. • Distorted perceptions of what is normal in sexual practice. • Develop an appetite for an increasing intensity of the pornography experience. • Begin to view non-monogamous relationships as normal and natural. DolfZillman & Jennings Bryan Journal of Applied Science (1988)

11. www.yourbrainonporn.com

13. “Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers. Dopamine also helps regulate movement and emotional responses, and it enables us not only to see rewards, but to take action to move toward them … and people with low dopamine activity may be more prone to addiction. The presence of a certain kind of dopamine receptor is also associated with sensation-seeking.” ~ Psychology Today Online

14. Symptoms of Arousal Addiction: • ADHD • Social Anxiety • Depression • Concentration Problems • Performance Anxiety • OCD

16. The build up of Delta-PhosB can lead to structural brain changes including: • Numbed pleasure response • Hyper-reactivity to porn • Willpower erosion

18. “Internet porn is killing young men’s sexual performance.” • Italian Society of • Andrology & Sexual Medicine • February 2011 • ED!!

19. “It starts with lower reactions to porn sites. Then there is a general drop in libido, and in the end it becomes impossible to get an erection.” • Dr. Carlo Foresta, • Head of the Italian Society of • Andrology & Sexual Medicine • February 2011

20. Recovery time for porn induced E.D.: • Older men: 2 months • Younger men: 4 to 5 months

22. “Can a man scoop up fire onto his lap and … not be burned?” • Proverbs 6:26

23. Porn Sunday • The Pervasiveness of Porn • The Pain and Damage of Porn • The Path to Purity

24. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” • John 10:10 | NIV

25. The Path to Purity • You have to understand and live in the power of the cross.

26. 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:5-10 | NIV

27. 8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. 9 Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the Lord's wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my right. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness. Micah 7:8-9| NIV

28. The Path to Purity • You have to understand and live in the power of the cross. • Replace wrong thoughts with right thoughts.

29. “Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” • Philippians 4:8 | NLT

30. The Path to Purity • You have to understand and live in the power of the cross. • Replace wrong thoughts with right thoughts. • You need to understand and experience the power of community.

31. “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another …” • Hebrews 10:25 | NIV84

34. Links to helpful sites can be found at: www.missionalcanadian.com www.fmalliance.ca