Internet Pornography: A Briar Patch of Sin

by Jon Walker

There was something God wanted me to confess to Rick Warren, but I was doing my best to avoid it. Rick and I had spent the better part of an afternoon together, and as the day came to a close, I started thinking I was off the hook.

We’d just wrapped the recording of a Leadership Lifter, 40 Ways to Increase Your Baptisms, and I thought we were about to leave the studio, when Rick said he wanted to record on a second subject, What to Do When a Staff Member Has a Moral Failure.

It was a particularly ironic moment because the thing God wanted me to tell Rick dealt with my own moral failure regarding Internet pornography. All day I’d been stuffing the sense of conviction, but now the pressure from the Holy Spirit was unbearable as I sat in the studio helping Rick record a message that pleaded for staff members to come clean and not allow hidden sin to destroy their ministries.

Yet, as we were packing up, I still argued with God: "Do you really want me to tell him? I promise I will never do it again if you don’t make me do this!"

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