Women to battle pornography with prayer
HOUSTON (BP) -- In nearly 20 years of being a pastor's wife, Angie Dennis said she doesn't remember a single instance of a young woman coming to her and saying, "Miss Angie, my husband is struggling with pornography." Perhaps they have been ashamed, scared, embarrassed or too paralyzed to take action. Or maybe they simply didn't know what to do. Dennis, whose husband Jay Dennis launched the Join One Million Men movement at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 11-12 in Houston, is hopeful women will pray up, speak up and join the fight against pornography in a way that will capture hearts and minds for generations to come. "As moms and grandmothers, we should be angry -- righteously angry about this," Dennis told Baptist Press where Join One Million Men staffed a booth in the SBC exhibit hall. "These pornographers are trying to steal the purity from our sons and grandsons. Every woman should be doing whatever we can to stop it." In recent years, Dennis said she sensed a growing drive within her husband, pastor of the 9,000-member First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, Fla., to minister to families struggling with a "snowballing" effect of online pornography.…
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