In the previous post we talked about a church and a pastor, we talked about how we react to sin and the staggering statistics we face. I really want to challenge many of you to rise up, to stand in the gap, to take a chance that just maybe God is asking you to make a difference in the lives of people who are struggling…I challenge you to go to your church and encourage them to do a Porn event, like Porn Sunday, Porn and Pancakes, or Porn and Pasteries. Get them to this site and open up the conversation.
Our men, our women, our kids, our pastors are struggling and we need to make a change…Take the challenge, make it happen and then come here and tell us when and where…I will be there!
Craig Gross the founder of XXXChurch wrote an incredible book called The Gutter. In the book Craig talks about the battles he encountered in building XXXChurch using his “less than conventional” ways. Here is the story of the Porn Mobiles first trip to church…How would you react to this vehicle? How would your church react to this in their parking lot?
From the book The Gutter by Craig Gross:
Where do you think Mike and I have received the strongest opposition to our ministry? Was it from the Church or from the gutter?
Of course, you know the answer. We get so much flak from so many Pharisaical Christians for what we do, but to that, I say this: Yes, the gutter is dirty and messy and full of the unknown, but then again, so is life. Anyone who tells you any different is selling something.
Shortly after the Porn Mobile came into being, my wife Jeanette and I, along with our then-nine-month-old son Nolan, drove it to one of the most progressive churches in California. I have some friends who attend regularly, and we thought now would be a good time to check out the service and bring along the Porn Mobile for its maiden voyage. We Parked without incident, attended the service, and prepared to head home. My wife went to the car to feed Nolan and I stayed to talk to one of the church’s men’s group leaders.
She took off for the Porn Mobile, but when she got there, she found it surrounded by three people, a note on the windshield. She snatched the note up and read it: “Your are more than welcome to come back to this church, but please do not park the car here or bring the car at all.” Nice welcome.
At this point my wife decided to carry out her mission of feeding Nolan, but as she tried to get into the car, one of the three people surrounding it began harassing her. He kept telling her that “XXX” is a dirty word and therefore should be taken out of the slogan, while she kept telling him that it was a good thing, trying to explain our mission. Aware that the whole encounter was going downhill fast, my wife finally just got in the car and started with the feeding.
A different man came over to talk with the guy who’d originally started hassling Jeanette. After hearing she was in the car, he started pounding on the window. Well, by this point Jeanette was pretty upset and tried to call my cell phone so I could come rescue her.
Unfortunately I’d turned it off during the service and hadn’t turned it back on. She was officially stuck.
Things settled down, and the people finally went away. After she was done feeding and Noland had a full tummy, Jeanette got out of the car to come find me. As she walked through the parking lot, one of the attendants tracked her down and told her the police were on their way. Someone had called them and complained about the Porn Mobile, and now the long arm of the law was getting involved.
It was getting surreal. what happened next interested me the most. The window-pounding guy saw my wife talking to the parking lot attendant (who was relieved to hear what we were about). He interrupted them to start an argument. My wife tried to brush the window-pounding guy off, but he was persistent in his attack. And you know what he kept saying to her? “I don’t want to discourage you from coming back to our church, BUT…” I can’t think of a less loving thing to say to a person.
All this over a stupid car.
In a church parking lot.
——————- Get the book, it is an incredible read!
Men, we need to get serious about changing the church and that change begins with you. Lately we have been blessed with a few Pastors on the Men’s Blog…great men of God…some who have battled and lost to sexual sin. What is your message to them? Is it “We love you BUT…”?
What is your message to others about things like Ted Haggard or the Porn Mobile…where is your focus, the law or the spirit of the law? The man in the following video knows the Bible well, but what is his message?
It seems women run so much of the church business anymore and it is time for the men to stand up and make a difference…it will not be easy…but then Jesus never said it would be.
Every X3 event begins because someone asks “What can we do about the problem of pornography?” That person could be you and the life you change could save a family, it could be the difference of a child who grows up not knowing divorce…
Here is another Porn Mobile attack, what are your thoughts?