A number of listeners to this podcast, listen with their children, which is awesome.

But today in this episode, we're going to talk about pornography, so just an alert there.

This is a common question we get.

A lot of times in the inbox, and it's a sobering one, here it is.

Should a pastor who uses pornography resign from his leadership role?

Now this is also a question that the Barna researchers recently asked about 3,000 Christians

in a study produced in partnership with Josh McDowell Ministries earlier in 2016.

And when they asked the question, only 8% of pastors said yes, that a pastor using porn

should resign.

But when the question was asked to adult Christians, 41% of them said yes, a pastor should be fired

or asked to resign in this situation.

So obviously, this huge disparity is a cause for concern alone about sexual sin and

pastoral ministry.

It seems, Pastor John, how do you read these numbers that 8% and the 41% and how would

you answer the question yourself?

Well, what appalls me in those statistics is not the disparity, but how low both figures

are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I mean, 8% is inconceivable.

They must have asked the question in a peculiar way.

I can't believe that number, 41%, I may be, but both of them, in my opinion, are appalling

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