And in my line of work specifically, I am daily reminded that the world is sexually broken. God created a perfect world; He filled it with beauty, living things, two naked human beings, and everything was good.
Then Genesis 3 happened; sin entered the world and these two naked humans who had felt no shame suddenly realized they were naked and made clothes to cover themselves. Ever since that disease of sin entered the world we have been misusing, confusing, and exploiting sexuality. In I entered my very first strip club. For a year I had been praying about how God wanted me to serve women in the adult entertainment industry, for I knew this was what he was calling me to do. And after a year of praying, he guided me into a strip club, orchestrated a purposeful conversation with the manager who immediately took a liking to me, and made a way for me and my two friends to bring in a home cooked meal to the women working in this club every single week.
This is how Scarlet Hope , whose mission is to share the hope and love of Jesus Christ with women in the adult entertainment industry of Louisville, KY, came about. Now, almost ten years later, we have been in over 20 clubs, shared the gospel with hundreds of women, and had the honor of watching dozens of women surrender their lives to God. In the context of what I do, I see that there are two fundamental problems.
The first problem is obvious and horrific, and that is the sexual perversion and exploitation that is rampant in our culture today. The statistics that prove how sexually broken our world is are staggering. According to prostitutionresearch. The trafficking of women is the second largest global organized crime today, generating approximately 12 billion dollars a year. Christians do not have the best reputation among women in the sex industry.
They generally feel judged, disregarded, and looked down upon by the church. But we must take some of the responsibility. This simply will not happen. We all tend to have a misunderstanding of the gospel, and the women I meet on a daily basis are no different. We tend to think that we need to clean up our act before we can seek the forgiveness of Christ and be in a relationship with God. I get to tell her that Christ died for her in the midst of her sin Romans This is the gospel that we believe, that God looked upon us in our utter helplessness and depravity, and sent us a Savior.
