Get Smart Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Get Smart------------------------- Date: 6/13/2001 Keywords: "fruit" "playboy" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Matthew 5:14-16* 16. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17. Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. Questions 1. What do these verses say?   2. How might they apply to your anti-porn efforts?   Practical help "I only read Playboy for the articles." In all fairness, Playboy does print good journalism. Some of the best personality profiles and feature stories in American publishing appear in its pages. But (and it's a big but) the magazine pursues an agenda that runs counter to Christianity. Even if you averted your gaze from every centerfold en route to the Norman Mailer piece, Hugh Hefner's hedonistic philosophy would come through. Bad trees produce bad fruit. The lesson? Run from porn in every form. In R-rated movies where nudity aims for titilation. In Web sites where raunchy stories, not pictures, predominate. And yes, in Playboy. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.