The Failure of Sex Education in the Church: Mistaken Identity, Compromised Purity is slowly making its way into the hands of Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, and those who gather in what C.S. Lewis calls the “hallway” of Christianity.
God asked Adam and Eve,
Who told you that you were naked?”
This book asks,
Who told us we are sexual beings from birth?”
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I haven’t read the book, so I really shouldn’t comment yet, except that the topic reminds me of one of my childhood frustrations. In our teen youth group at church… back in the early 80’s, the church asked a married couple to come in and teach us “natural family planning”. Teens will be teens after all and they didn’t want to join the contraception crowd, so they taught us how to avoid pregnancy the “natural” way. Looking back, their decision to do this may have sounded logical and practical to the “teens will be teens and have sex no matter what” crowd. But for me it taught me something else… that sex before marriage wasn’t a moral issue but was all about not getting pregnant before getting married. The morality of it was completely removed from my psyche. They didn’t talk about morals, future blessings or the consequences of STD’s, the psychological connections sex creates, or any of the other issues. It was all about not getting pregnant. And having that ideal taught at church was really confusing. I bet it wasn’t confusing to just me.
So true! Thanks for laying it all out so clearly. Sex is for marriage. .
Great response, SW. And along comes abortion, so the not getting pregnant issue becomes a non-issue as long as “nobody knows.”