Just Don’t Do It?

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Title: Just Don’t Do It?------------------------- Date: 12/23/2001
Keyword: "obedience"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:15*

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Questions

1. Why should we no longer live for ourselves?

 

2. Does this knowledge help you avoid Web porn?

 

Practical help

True confessions time. The eXXit site tries not to play the obedience card on Web pornography too often. The reason? Christians hear the just-don't-do-it line a lot elsewhere, and many don't realize that other approaches even exist. Nonetheless — despite our many studies on the need for accountability, grace and a healthy level of self-interest — verses like 2 Corinthians 5:15 demand a fair reading.

Just don't do it almost sums it up. We should avoid Web porn, but we should always bear in mind the reason for doing so. We don't act out of blind obedience; we obey the one who deserves no less than all we can give. He gave no less than himself to us.


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