Did someone just say SEX in church?
Why do so many males within the church struggle with pornography addiction? Last week I wrote a post about a TV evangelist who was pretty much condemning everything that had sex to hell. I wonder what this man would do if he knew there were porn addicts sitting in the pew in front of him, or the fact that he probably had shared the same drinking fountain as a porn addict before – he’d probably die.
So continuing from last week…
A major reason for the struggle with sexual desires within the church setting is because talking, thinking, looking, or doing anything regarding sex is taboo. Men and women who are married are even “hush, hush” about their sex lives within the church. I know from personal experience, having grown up in a church setting, that when the word sex was mentioned it was as if you had actually dropped your pants in the middle of the service.
There needs to be more open communication about sexual relationships and healthy sexual appetites within the church community. I’m not saying that the church should open their doors to pornography and accept it as a tool to help stimulate sexual desires. What I am saying is that there is a balance between the out-of-control sexual relationships that porn depicts and the modest “goody-two-shoes” attitude of the church.
Where’s the balance?
May 11, 2006 at 12:36 am
I found your site tonight while browsing through best of blogs. I commend your efforts. I feel we live in a society in which all moral codes have been placed under scrutiny. People are experimenting with things that were previously deemed taboo remarkably 30 or 40 years ago.
I wonder what role repression plays in all of this? ; Could it be that our culture is in the midst of a reactionary swing against the prudish nature of our ancestors? I wonder if the authority for moral conduct is changing? that maybe people are looking outside of the church to find meaning, in their sexual lives or otherwise?
It is obvious from your posts about Tone or the evangelical pastor all Christians realize that the use of pornography pervades the culture.
Sex is a part of everyone’s search for meaning and for love. It seems that Christian ideas about sex have centered on the moral rightness or wrongness of the act. What if the emphasis was placed on sexual health rather that a blanket moral statement against?
Is this a moral issue? a health issue? a social epidemic? what is going on?
September 5, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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