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“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” (James 5:16 NIV).

Do you have a dirty little secret? Are you bound by an addiction to pornography? If so, confess your sin to God and to someone else and be FREE already! Why stay captive to sin any longer? Why let the enemy control your life another day?

A great place to start your confession and begin down the road to recovery is xxxchurch.com. Craig Gross, founder and leader of xxxchurch.com (based out of Las Vegas – Sin City) was our guest speaker during our weekend services on 9-19-09 and 9-20-09. Craig joined Victory World Church for our fourth session in our series on sex entitled “Elephant in the Pew”. And not only was an elephant in the pew, but a disciple of Christ was in the pulpit – filled with boldness, power, and anointing from the Holy Spirit! Craig shared with Victory a powerful message about the destructive power of pornography – a message that is long overdue for the church community. It’s time we face the issues that are affecting the church head on, and Craig’s message did just that. We confronted pornography and EXPOSED it for what it is – - SIN, DEATH, and DESTRUCTION.

The issue of Internet pornography addiction is put best as written on the xxxchurch.com website: If you sent a bottle of vodka to every home in America every week for a year, you would no doubt have a whole wave of alcoholics. The Internet has created a wave of pornography addicts with its pervasive porn delivery mechanism.

Craig, a former youth pastor, emphasized the importance of confessing our sins to God, confessing our sins to one another, repenting, and asking for God’s help. xxxchurch.com is a place where you can go to confess your sin and set up accountability for your Internet usage. Free software called X3watch is available for download at xxxchurch.com. An upgraded version called X3watch PRO can be purchased for $19.00. These programs ask you for the email addresses of up to three accountability partners. When you go to any adult Internet site, your designated accountability partners are notified by email with a listing of the sites you visited. If you disable X3watch, your accountability partners are notified as well. Basically, if you surf the net for Internet pornography, you will be EXPOSED! Craig also encouraged us to call or meet with our accountability partners on a regular basis, as the X3 accountability program is only one aspect of the accountability process. We need to stay away from isolation and have relationships with others whom we can talk to and who will hold us accountable for any sinful behavior.

Friends, let’s not keep making the same mistakes. “As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness” (Proverbs 26:11 The Message). Let’s do what we gotta do to keep ourselves a Holy vessel for the Lord. For some of us, this will mean downgrading cell phones to non-web phones, canceling cable and Internet subscriptions, avoiding roads where pornographic material is sold, and choosing to trash the sales flyers and magazines that feature underwear models. Whatever it takes, just do it. Be bold and do it today.

It is obvious that Mr. Craig Gross has answered the call to serve the Lord. To date, Craig has been to 35 pornography conventions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and beyond. And just what kind of people has Craig found at these conventions? Human beings, that’s who. It all started in January of 2002 when Craig rented his first booth at a pornography convention for $5000 dollars (thanks to his American Express card). Craig’s message at these conventions is “Jesus Loves Porn Stars”. And Craig is so sure about this message that he has Bibles made with covers that say just that (pic of bible). As you might imagine, persuading publishers to put a cover like this on the Bible is not always easy, yet the bold message on the cover is nothing but the TRUTH. “Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him.”If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you” (John 8:31-32 The Message).

Something that came as a shock to some was that 3000-5000 bibles are handed out (for free) at each pornography convention that XXXchurch attends. Craig understands the fundamental truth of the word of God: It has the power to CHANGE PEOPLE! As a result of the positive reception that Craig has received at pornography conventions (yes, I said positive), he was invited to a pornography convention geared specifically towards homosexual pornography – and invited back! XXXchurch will also have a booth at the Atlanta Gay Pride festival in October – handing out free bibles.

Craig also reminded us that times have changed and the world our children are growing up in is much different than what many of us experienced in our childhood. Children can be searching the net for innocent information and come across pornographic material. Parents: WAKE UP!!

Victory thanks God for Craig’s understanding of the times we live in. People of this world are spiritually dead, bound by the chains of sin, and burning in a fiery pit on a daily basis. But thank God for laborers like Craig who are sharing the truth of Jesus Christ with the lost.

“Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. So pray to the Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust laborers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9:37-38 Amplified).

Craig’s message to Victory can be downloaded here.

To learn more about Craig, XXXchurch, and X3 watch, go to xxxchurch.com. While there, take the X3 Porno Pledge!

*Annual revenue for the pornography industry: $70 BILLION – More than ABC, CBS, and NBC combined. *Number of pornographic web pages: 400 MILLION

~Alex H.