This week at Fuel we continued on in our series, “Everything Is Spiritual’ and talked about the physical, emotional, and spiritual connections of Sex. We talked about how sex and love are not synonymous and how our culture has cheapened sex, turned it into a commodity, and perverted it. We looked at why God desires that sex would be saved for marriage - not to keep people from having fun but to keep people from giving pieces of themselves away to those that they’ll never have true intimacy with.
Sex is truly a deeply spiritual act as well as a powerful physically intimate one.
Good topic. And one that needs to be covered often with youth groups starting at 12-14year olds, depending upon circumstances. The media today shows a perversion of the relationship between, love, marriage, family, and sexuality without providing the proper guidance and roadmaps that God has definitely given on these subjects. In the media it’s “If it feels good, do it, and don’t worry about the consequences and everything will be alright when you find “true love” and the white knight will ride in on his steed and nobly take you away to his castle where you’ll live happily ever after. But it doesn’t teach of putting the relationship in the proper order of God, Spouse, Self or even friendship, dating, engagement, marriage then a physical relationship. I’m glad you are able to hold these teachings with the youth. They need to be told the truth.
Keep up God’s very necessary work.
Merilyn
Comment by Merilyn — March 10, 2009 @ 10:23 pm