Pornography takes its toll on men and women all over the
world everyday. Its effects can be seen in broken families, distorted
self-images, and warped senses of self-satisfaction. Pornography has all of the promises of sin
and all of the destruction. It is the promise of satisfaction that ultimately
leaves the user and its actors completely unsatisfied. This epidemic has not
avoided the church or the pastors that serve her. It seems everyone has been
swept up into the web of this vicious lover and she does not let go easily.
There is hope…
Heath Lambert has written a book that points readers to this
hope in Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace. Lambert takes a bare knuckles approach to the
fight against pornography in a way that also extends grace and mercy to the
users and their families. In fact, the very center of Lambert’s approach is the
grace of God that has been made known through Jesus Christ. From this center of
God’s grace the fight is taken to the sin of self-satisfaction through
pornography.
Lambert argues for eight areas where this sin must be
attacked. He explains that sorrow, accountability, radial measures, confession,
your spouse (or singleness), humility, gratitude, and a focus on the pure worth
of Jesus Christ will allow you and your family to be finally free from the
ravages of porn addiction.
If you are looking for someone to excuse the sin or to
explain away the behavior by focusing on why so many are effected by porn then
you need to look elsewhere. Lambert takes a hard line against the temptation of
porn and explores the solutions with the basic premise that you have the power
and means made available through God’s grace to be free from this sin.
Lambert’s work could have spent some time on giving a
background and understanding on why we are seeing this addiction reach epidemic
numbers. He could have shown the effects that involvement in this industry
takes on daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers as the utter lack of
recognition of God’s image as present in women. He opted for a very simple and straightforward
punch in the face of pornography addiction.
When you or someone in your family is ready to get serious
about a fight against pornography or if you are engaged in helping someone become
free from this addiction then I highly recommend that you read this book.
* The publisher
provided me a free copy of this book for purposes of review. I was not asked
for a positive review.
