The Healing Church: What Churches Get Wrong About Pornography and How to Fix It

What it is

Most of this directory addresses the person struggling. The Healing Church addresses the institution around them, arguing that churches have systematically got this wrong — silence that reads as condemnation, teaching that produces shame without producing change, and a culture where confession costs a person their standing, so nobody confesses. It examines what pornography actually does to Christians and to congregations, and what a church would have to do differently to become a place where people tell the truth. For a pastor who senses the problem is widespread in his church and has no idea how to open the subject without causing damage, this is the strategic book. Pair it with Juli Slattery's Rethinking Sexuality for the theology and Before It Begins for the practical church programme.

What it may help with

• I lead a church or ministry

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