Some Sex Ain't so Sexy
If you like variety in your sex life, you’re living at the right time in history! There is no shortage of input and ideas about this very human topic! From the examples that movie stars set, to how-to manuals on improving your sex life, to Dr. Phil, to tabloid magazines at the grocery store check out, to the guys in the change room, there are plenty of perspectives on sex floating around. Not to overuse the cliché, but we DO live in “sex-saturated society”.
Problem is, some sex ain’t so sexy! In fact many of the modern societal spokesmen/women on human sexuality are nothing more than perverts, adulterers and pornographers whose sole concern is how to increase your orgasm, all the while ruining your marriage, family and ability to experience relational intimacy. Barely a month goes by that I don’t hear about some marriage that has fallen apart or some life that is in shambles due to sexual sin that seemed sweet at first but turned bitter.
For these reasons, it is increasingly apparent to me that the church must work harder at educating people about the stark reality that some sex ain’t so sexy, but in fact is destructive. This means that our children need to be taught to view sex through the eyes of the God who designed it as an expression of trusting intimacy in a marital relationship. This also means that as people who are part of a sex-saturated culture that we need to daily remind ourselves of our own vulnerabilities as physical beings and resist temptation as per biblical teaching. This further means that the church needs to teach on the topic of sex in a bold, sincere and tactful way instead of letting people develop their views of sex outside of Christian community.
Jesus came to help people find holistic wholeness through the pursuit of holiness. So it seems to me that the church, as his representative on earth, needs to help people do the same—and that includes correcting faulty views about sex and teaching/modelling God’s views on this important subject.
posted by Rev. Dr. Aaron Rock at
8/09/2007 02:25:00 p.m.
1 Comments:
Wow a pastor who openly wants to talk about sex... interesting! It is with great need friend that the church needs to educate the "pews" on such a perverted topic. But the challenge is great as the poison of the perversion has so saturated our society. Further more, who could really teach on such a topic with openness, boldness and gentleness? Surely there must be someone with burned lips from the fiery coals of God that can open their mouth and speak penetrating truth to the core of the problems in people’s lives. You see, the issues are usually greater than a better experience or orgasmic pleasure. These are not to be taken lightly, as they should be happening in a marriage between one man and one woman. Unfortunately, a willingness to change in any area in ones life including the sexual area, takes the single most difficult thing to surrender to – SELFLESSNESS. Bringing people to that state of surrender, selflessness, will take more than just a Sunday sermon, more than a 6 week series or bible study. Number one it will take God’s power and number two a willingness to surrender to it. Then and only then can people experience healing in the areas of their lives that need “fixing” and that includes sex. Kudos to you on the challenge of the sex issue, so you want to talk about sex… interesting!
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