where we are loosing the war

Trafficking doesn’t begin when a child is kidnapped, or when a girl is sold.  Trafficking doesn’t begin with traffickers and pimps and johns.

Trafficking begins long before that. 

Everything starts in the family - or the breakdown of the family

every child who was trafficked due to neglectful parents

every teen girl who went looking for love in the wrong places

every boy who got hooked on drugs and now sells girls for his next fix

every young woman who was raped

every young man who was taught porn was ok

every trafficker who was once just someone’s baby

every individual entered this world as a helpless infant - and more than likely their parents were too preoccupied or too selfish to protect them from the evil of the world and to teach them about the evil inside of them

when the Church

has ceased to speak meaningfully on issues of the family, growing up, engaging   the culture while staying free of it’s evil, purity and sexuality

does not confront evil among it’s own - porn, sexual impurity,etc. 

does not teach that Jesus can free from addictions

does not agree that Jesus can completely heal and restore

does not nurture families, children, the orphans and the lonely

does not provide support for the abused

does not hold culture and government to a higher standard

does not fight evil

does not rescue the enslaved  

then we fail

Education

teaches children to honor and applaud sexual perversions 

teaches children their sexuality is an animal instinct not a gift from God

teaches young people there is no meaning to life or higher power

teaches young adults that sexuality is meant to be “free”

teaches college students perverted ways to view sex and calls them enlightened 

Culture 

sexualizes children from a young age through clothing, toys, tv, music, pop stars,

teaches young people incorrect views of sexuality and encourages promiscuity 

does it’s best to destroy the value of human life

tells adults at every turn that they are not good enough without a partner, will not be happy outside of an ungodly sex life, and that any and every kind of sexual evil is not only ok and normal but good 

We aren’t just loosing the battle against trafficking at the level of rescue and rehabilitation - we are loosing the battle in our homes, in our churches in our schools, and in our culture.

Trafficking doesn’t begin when a child is kidnapped, or when a girl is sold.  Trafficking doesn’t begin with traffickers and pimps and johns.

Trafficking begins long before that. 

If we are going to be effective in this war we need to start fighting the battles closest to home.