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Re: Pastoral Internet Regulation & Control
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Originally Posted by StMark
If there's nothing to hide then why would anyone have
a problem with it ??
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For the same reason I wouldn't be on staff at a church that required me to keep surveillance cameras in my home, in order to supervise my activities. 
Like I said, VOLUNTARY accountability is a very good thing...but mandatory? The pastor is being over-zealous at best. There may be some circumstances that are prompting him to take this action, but in the end, it won't bring about the results he's after anyway.
Mandatory morality is just tossing away the NT in exchange for the Old. If a person doesn't pursue purity and morality from a point of his own love for and consecration to God, then it's a moot point. Remember the scripture about a man looking on a woman...with lust...has already committed adultery? You can make all kinds of rules, but if the heart isn't right, the rules accomplish nothing.
To be blunt, a man who can't look at porn because his pastor is looking over his shoulder can still THINK about porn if the heart problem isn't fixed.
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abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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