Reverse Progress Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Reverse Progress------------------------- Date: 4/22/2002 Keywords: "first love" "progress" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Revelation 2:4* Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Questions 1. What does forsaking a first love look like?   2. How can we turn back?   Practical help Author C.S. Lewis liked to say that progress meant nothing if you're going in the wrong direction. In such a situation, true progress requires turning around and heading back the other way. People who struggle with porn understand. We transgress former boundaries — first, glancing at attractive people; then dwelling on sexual fantasies; then clicking in and out of pornographic Web sites; then clicking in but not out. If you're progressing down this path, throw on the brakes. You've lost your first love. The life of the Spirit lies in the opposite direction. Go there today. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.