http://www.newlife-glastonbury.org/blog/2009/02/10/how-should-the-church-teach-about-sex/ Thoughts on faith and culture from the community of NewLife Christian Fellowship, Glastonbury, CT Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.newlife-glastonbury.org/blog/2009/02/10/how-should-the-church-teach-about-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-14537 john umland Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:43:11 +0000 http://www.newlife-glastonbury.org/blog/2009/02/10/how-should-the-church-teach-about-sex/#comment-14537 G. Gordon and I got together for breakfast and bible this morning and got talking about what people here when you say words like "gospel" and "church". We think they usually hear a condemnation of their sexual freedom, whether they are actually doing anything with it or not. So then I got thinking that alot of people in my non-church sphere have a emotional/spiritual/sensual life dominated by the sensual, which they know intuitively needs to be submitted to God if they receive the good news. So the good news doesn't sound so good to them. The topic of sex is perhaps a great evangelistic tool. A believer can show how this part of our lives is intertwined with spiritual and emotional aspects of our lives. I think you are doing a good thing. However, SoS is intensely sensual, but that's OK because it sits among 65 other books that dwell on other aspects of the sensual (work, time, money) as well as the spiritual and emotional. In my blog series on SoS I just ran out of things to say, because they kept saying the same thing over and over again with modified metaphors. I think sex would be a great topic for evangelistic revivals. I don't know if Billy Graham would be the guy to pull it off, but perhaps one the triple X converts could do it. God is good jpu G. Gordon and I got together for breakfast and bible this morning and got talking about what people here when you say words like “gospel” and “church”. We think they usually hear a condemnation of their sexual freedom, whether they are actually doing anything with it or not. So then I got thinking that alot of people in my non-church sphere have a emotional/spiritual/sensual life dominated by the sensual, which they know intuitively needs to be submitted to God if they receive the good news. So the good news doesn’t sound so good to them. The topic of sex is perhaps a great evangelistic tool. A believer can show how this part of our lives is intertwined with spiritual and emotional aspects of our lives. I think you are doing a good thing. However, SoS is intensely sensual, but that’s OK because it sits among 65 other books that dwell on other aspects of the sensual (work, time, money) as well as the spiritual and emotional. In my blog series on SoS I just ran out of things to say, because they kept saying the same thing over and over again with modified metaphors. I think sex would be a great topic for evangelistic revivals. I don’t know if Billy Graham would be the guy to pull it off, but perhaps one the triple X converts could do it.
God is good
jpu

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