The Gospel & Pornography Quotes

“If the Bible is the whole counsel of God, the whole people of God need the whole Bible. And if the gospel is good news for sinners, then every sin must be called to repentance and every sin must be offered the merciful covering of the blood of Christ.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“The gospel addresses pornography, first of all, by showing you what your sexuality is, and calling on you to seek the Spirit to rightly order it under the lordship of Christ. The gospel also, though, frees you by unshackling you from the shame that would keep you captive, whether to actual pornography or the pornography of your own mind’s making.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“The pull to temptation, whether to pornography or to some other act of self-destruction, can feel so bewildering precisely because it is, quite literally, bedeviling. This is spiritual warfare.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“If we are driven by the Spirit, we are driven toward God and toward fellowship with one another. If we walk according to the flesh, our appetites start to control us. Pornography promises to address a real longing with a fake answer.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“No, the ultimate answer to pornography is not by putting filters on our computers, as helpful as they may be, but in having the changed heart where we see pornography the way God does—as the ridiculous and dangerous substitute it truly is. And that only happens when our delight is in something bigger, when our grasping for beauty is not out of place but directed to the right object.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“Jesus’ zealousness regarding purity is not because He hates us or wants to suppress whatever might be “fun.” His zealousness stems from His being radically for us. He knows what we were made for.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“Another result of pornography is, like with all sin, a deadening of the senses and the searing of the conscience. What once was sexually stirring no longer holds any power. That’s not because the person watching porn has become more alive, but because they’ve become more dead.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“But the Bible does not say, “sex is everything;” nor does it say “sex is nothing.” To the first group, the Bible says, “sex is not as important as you think.” One does not need a sexual relationship in order to be a full and flourishing human being. Just look at Jesus. Or the dozens of leaders throughout church history who never married, people like last century’s global evangelical leader, John Stott, or the German pastor martyred at the hands of the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. To the second group, the Bible says, “sex is a lot more important than you think.” Pornography is a big deal because it severs sexuality from its proper place, isolates you as a person, and cultivates in you a distorted vision of beauty and morality.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“If sex is a good gift from God designed to bring us joy and bring Him glory, then it’s no wonder Satan wants to distort that gift so that we only experience shame and loneliness. In pornography, the “one-flesh union” of a man and a woman becomes the “no-flesh” aloneness of a man or woman before the flickering images of a screen, or in the pages of a novel.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“When Adam and Eve ate from that forbidden fruit, they were taking something good that God had made and directly violating His command. They were grasping for something “delightful” and “desirable” apart from God’s original intention and design.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“Within the context of this story, we come to understand why pornography makes no sense when compared to God’s good design. But we also discover the reasons why pornography maintains such a powerful pull on people today.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“The world sees porn as something to be managed; the Bible sees it as something to be killed.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“The Devil wants to delude and confuse each of us into thinking that our sins are only our problem; that they can be hidden away in our memory and not come back to inflict our conscience with cutting reminders of guilt. The Devil wants each of us to believe that we can rid ourselves of guilt and shame apart from Jesus. That’s what the Devil is always up to—offering both the sin that rejects Christ, but also rescue plans that bypass Christ. As Christians, we have to reject both of these patterns. We have to focus on Jesus, who can rewire darkened hearts.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography

“The most dangerous sins to our Christian life are the ones we think are anonymous.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Gospel & Pornography