A while back a friend of mine recommended a podcast to listen to. The podcast is called “Dirty little secrets”. Don’t let the explicit label scare you away if you are interested in listening to it. On the podcast are two pastors who started a ministry called XXX Church. The website is www.xxxchurch.com. These two pastors wanted to bring the problem of pornography to a place where we can talk about it openly and in light of our faith. They wanted to get it out of the darkness.
One of their broadcasts they talked to a pornographer called Jimmy D. Not only were they talking to him, they had worked together on a campaign to keep porn out of the hands of children. They even were the officiating pastors at the wedding of his daughter.
As I listened I felt very uncomfortable. I kept thinking that Christians should not be associating with someone of his ilk. As they talked the discomfort grew. These guys were wrong.
What started to eek around the edges of my “faith” as I listened, was the understanding that it was exactly these people that Jesus associated with, to the point that he was called a drunkard and a partier. The Pharisees were marked in the bible by the belief that somehow they were better than the “sinful” masses. I realized that I was looking down my nose at this pornographer and judging myself more worthy than he. I was in fact a Pharisee.
I have realized that there is a wide disconnect between what I believe and who I really am, and I consider myself supremely blessed when that is pointed out to me, and I am able to hear it. I guess you could say that I was blessed by that podcast.
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