Dealing with sexual sin

Desiring God features an article by Harry Schaumberg about Sexual sin in the ministry.  He writes,

"Several years ago a seminary professor told me: 'We no longer ask our entering students if they struggling with pornography, we assume every student is struggling. The question we ask: ‘How serious is the struggle?’”"

Sexual sin is a huge issue in the church as it is throughout the world at large. Schaumberg points to many of the issues at hand.

I was particularly struck by this passage, "When one is held in the grip of sexual sin, there is no hope of self-reform or self-efforts, for those living according to the “passions of their flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and mind” (Ephesians 2:3). To put it bluntly, those living in habitual sexual sin are “dead in their trespasses and sin” (verse 1). Dead, in a loss of spiritual life. Dead to finding satisfaction with God. Dead to living for his purpose. Holiness is dead. Wisdom is dead. Purity is dead. Love is dead. Like David, the sexual sinner has sinned “against the Lord” (2 Samuel 12:13), and in so doing has “utterly scorned the Lord” (verse 14). The horrible fact is they are “by nature children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3)."

I would strongly recommend this article, particularly to the men.  And then find someone to whom you can be accountable.