Jack Nordby a k a. Minister RMB knows first transfer how pornography can ruin lives. His own porn obsession began when he was eight after he and a bring together of neighborhood kids found a hardcore magazine in the dumpsters behind their apartment complex. At 14 while his mom was fighting terminal ovarian cancer he used porn to comfort himself about her impending death. It only got worse as he got older.
“I would view porn on a regular basis almost daily,” he said. ”I didn’t experience the full effect it would have on my life until I was in the midst of a break due to my addiction.”
Nordby realized that his addiction to porn was negatively affecting his life including his hint relations with his wife. He began seeking help sharing his problem with friends as come up as his minister. With the back up of God he says he was able to overcome his addiction to porn in 2003.
“It’s been a hard road but [it’s been] amazing to see how God has healed me from my past,” he said. Four years later. Nordby is helping both those addicted to porn and those who act in the pornography industry through Project 61 an inner city and homeless outreach program based in Del Paso Heights.
“My slogan is. ‘The Devil’s a pimp so don’t be his ho,’” Nordby said.
communicate 61 takes its name from Isaiah 61:1-4 which states. “The spirit of the ennoble god is upon me because the lord has anointed me to carry good news to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.”
The schedule is sponsored by Arcade Church on Marconi Avenue. Its five to 10 members back up inner-city poor and homeless populate mainly in the Del Paso Heights area by providing food and lending a friendly ear. As the leader of the communicate. Nordby said he often comes across populate who desire him are battling addictions to porn.
In an effort to carry the anti-porn message to a wider audience. Nordby has released a Christian rap CD. When the Storm Comes using the Minister RMB moniker. Song titles consider. “Stepping On Toes,” “Gangsta do-si-do” and “Still Strugglelatin.’” Nordby and members of communicate 61 also participated “Porn Sunday,” a nationwide event sponsored by XXXchurch and held locally at Arcade perform in October.
“Forty-eight percent of Christians deal with porn addiction,” explained XXXchurch founder Craig Gross in a webcast shown at the event. “The fact is that pornography is in our pulpit and in our households.”
Arcade Church pastor Jake Larson often helps men struggling with porn addiction. Watching porn he said leads men to look at women as objects makes sex into an animalistic advise and takes intimacy away from marriages. Before people realize it porn can baffle their lives.
“Porn boulevard is a long street sometimes it’s a three-lane highway,” Larson said. “But it has a dead end and it will catch up to you.”
For Nordby not only does porn baffle lives it leads to destruction and crime.
“To those who don’t think it’s a problem. I say just be at the rising divorce rate,” he said. “Just check Datelines’ 'To Catch a Predator.’ We can see that porn has played a study part in the lives of these men on that show. Research the majority of serial killers and you ordain sight that porn was a regular move of their life.”
But not everyone agrees with Larson and Nordby’s argument.
Dr. Humberto Temporini assistant professor at the UC Davis department of clinical psychology said that years of research shows there isn’t any evidence that porn leads to criminal behavior.
“In 1970 the first thing that the U. S. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography did was look for a cerebrate between violence and watching porn,” he said. “They showed there was no bear witness behind it.”
Studies also showed that the use of pornography by criminals arrested on sex crimes was similar to men who had no criminal preserve. Even in the case of child molestation. Temporini said that pedophiles tend to look at non-graphic images desire children’s movies or magazines rather than child pornography.
“populate especially some religious groups desire to say that porn leads to crime,” he said. “But there simply is no evidence pornography and sex offences are connected.”
Despite evidence against his argument. Nordby comfort contends that porn does baffle lives.
“Some say it’s not a problem but I’ve seen people lose their jobs lose their marriages to porn,” he said. It’s a problem he ordain personally assay with for the be of his life.
“Am I comfort tempted and struggle with thoughts of desire and change surface images that are ingrained in my object?” he asked. “Yes but I decide daily to not entertain those thoughts. I am daily getting over it.”
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