Many have been freed from a porn addiction with the help of flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs. But has their success come at a price? Has the success of flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs—coupled with most program developer’s well-intentioned insistence that escape is only possible with accountability—also left many behind?
THE SHAME FACTOR LEAVES MANY BEHIND
Most that want to quit porn will understandably opt out of accountability-based purity programs once made aware that they must spill their sexual sins in a group setting. One survey puts the number at a whopping 83% [1]. That is correct. 83% of persons wanting to quit porn are not enlisting the aid of an accountability partner/group to help them quit. The Main Reason: The Shame Factor is too high. Too high for them to publicly acknowledge that they have a sin problem and seek help.
THE HARD-TO-NAVIGATE ESCAPE LEAVES MANY BEHIND
Those insisting that accountability is the only way of escape openly acknowledge that accountability-based escape may be the hardest thing that an addict will ever do in his life (see www.wileygrafbooks.com/news/the-hardest-thing-v9). Another reason why 83% of persons wanting to quit porn are not seeking (and then sticking with) a flesh-starving accountability partner/group to help them quit.
ACCOUNTABILITY-BASED ESCAPE: BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
Has the success of flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs come at a price? Content with having found one way of escape, has the success of flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs resulted in most no longer seeking less shameful, easier-to-successfully-navigate, escape-without-accountability, wholly Spirit-powered options? Has the success of flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs left many of the 83% behind?
THE CHURCH HAS ANOTHER OPTION
Flesh-starving accountability-based purity programs for overcoming porn and other sins of the flesh have been proven—in both the World and in Bible-based purity programs. But most of those wanting to quit porn will not seek accountability-based help. That’s bad news for the porn-trapped of the World. Why? Because flesh-starving accountability is all the World has to offer. But the Church has another option (see www.wileygrafbooks.com/news/church-has-another-option-v9). A zero-shame, much easier-to-successfully-navigate, escape-without-accountability, wholly Spirit-powered option (Galatians 5:16).
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
A GAME-CHANGING BOOK HAS ARRIVED
In A Way of Escape, readers learn how to build a zero-shame, much easier-to-successfully-navigate, escape-without-accountability, wholly Spirit-powered purity program. Readers learn how to escape lusts of the flesh—not by starving the flesh, but—by stepping up the degree to which they “walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16). They learn how to build a library of Spirit-anointed, flesh-diffusing apps. Apps that are uniquely fitted to them, and their unique Spirit-filling triggers (Ephesians 5:18b-19).
The left-behind 83% now have another option. The left-behind 83% now have fresh hope for discovering that long-sought-after way of escape from temptation and resulting sin (I Corinthians 10:13). A way that—because it is wholly Spirit-powered—does not require enlisting the aid of an accountability partner or group. Truly, a game-changer!
THANK YOU, HOLY SPIRIT!
REFERENCES
1. The Porn Phenomenon: The Impact of Pornography in the Digital Age, Barna Group, Ventura, CA, page 112 (83% determined as the average of 79% for Teens & Young Adults and 87% for Adults Age 25 and Older), 2016
