This Sunday is Porn Sunday!

Pornography is a multi billion-dollar industry that is tearing apart marriages and families everywhere you turn. This addiction is destroying the minds of people all around the world…Christians, non-Christians, men, women AND children. The facts surrounding this ugly elephant in the room will blow your mind. If you don't see this as an epidemic, you've got your head in the sand. Join Coastal Community Church, this Sunday, October 7th, as we partner with XXXChurch.com, the nation’s largest anti-porn ministry, for National Porn Sunday. You’ll walk away empowered with the truth necessary to battle America’s (and many Christian's) dirty little secret…pornography. If there's a place where we ought to be able to talk openly and honestly about problems of this nature, it should be the church. And don't worry - we're not going to be intentionally offensive or graphic. We will however offer help and hope. And don't stay away from church on Sunday, thinking this doesn't affect you. It's a national epidemic that affects all of us. If you have a computer or a television, you are confronted with this problem on some level on a regular basis.

Let these staggering facts and statistics sink in:
- Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenue of all professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises
- US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC
- Pornographic websites-4.2 million
- Pornographic pages-372 million
- Daily pornographic emails-2.5 billion
- Sexual solicitation of youth made in chat rooms-89%
- Average age of first internet exposure to pornography-11 years old
- Largest consumer of pornography-12-17 age group
- 8-16 year olds having viewed porn online-90% (most while doing homework)
- 7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address-29%
- Men admitting to accessing pornography at work-20%
- Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week-53%
- Women keeping their cyber activities secret-70%
- Women favor chat rooms 2x more than men

And yes, use this as an opportunity to invite your friends to church. Tell them that at Coastal we talk about real life issues that people face every day. It's going to be a powerful day!