According to CNBC, $3,075 is spent every second on pornography in the United States. Each second, 28,000 people are viewing porn online, and every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is produced. It is not just made for movies but also for iPhones and BlackBerry technology.

The industry of porn is larger than the revenues of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix and Earthlink combined. It brings in more revenue than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. This means that Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy are bigger stars than Peyton Manning and Kobe Bryant.

Recently, CNN reported that 70 percent of Christians admitted to struggling with pornography.

This pandemic must cause us to pursue the wounded, engage in the issue and love the broken.

In the Gospels, we find a story where Jesus walks in on judgment. He approaches a woman naked and ashamed facing imminent death by stoning of the crowd. She has been caught in adultery and dragged into a common area where those passing by would soon be encouraged to join in stoning this woman.

Jesus arrives and in humility walks near the woman, drops to his knees and draws in the dirt. The crowd surrounds them both, with stones in hand, paying close attention to what Jesus is doing. We are never told what is written, but we know that those who condemned this woman walked away in silence. This is a great picture of us standing around those struggling with porn.

You know probably know several people who struggle with porn. You probably know people who have reached out to you on this issue and you brushed it off because it was too scary.

Jesus gave us an example of how we must pursue the wounded. Jesus didn’t come to the woman and scold her for what she had done. Other people had already done that. Jesus didn’t stand at a distance and counsel the woman on how to leave her life of sin. Jesus approached her with no stone in hand and sat next to her in the sand. Jesus didn’t offer advice. He just wrote in the dirt.

It is time to stop encouraging those around us from a distance. We must go and be with them.

Jesus also gives us an example of what it looks like to engage in an issue. The penalty for adultery in those days was being stoned to death. Jesus engages in the issue when he arrives at the scene. He doesn’t avoid the crowd or the woman. He gets with the woman and humbles the crowd.

I believe that often when we see the crowd as it pertains to purity, we run in the other direction.

Jesus loves the woman in her brokenness. He asks her to leave her life of sin. He offers no condemnation but offers her wholeness that can be found only in him.

It is important to understand the destructive power of sin. We must not separate ourselves from the sinner because of their sin.

We must choose which is more important: to make it difficult to sin, or to make it easy to see Christ.

Jesus loves you, and Jesus loves porn stars.