Sex
Illustrations
A
three-year-old boy went with his dad to see a new litter of
kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother,
"There were two boy kittens and two girl kittens."
"How did you know that?" his mother asked.
"Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he
replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."
We
can supplement our accountability to others by reading slowly
through literature designed to challenge our Christian maturity.
Consider, as an example, these questions related to sexual purity
that I had to read carefully as I read Kent Hughes' Liberating
Ministry from the Syndrome:
1.
Are we being desensitized by the present evil world? Do things
that once shocked us now pass us by with little notice? Have our
sexual ethics slackened?
2. Where do our minds wander when we have no duties to perform?
3. What are we reading? Are there books or magazines or files in
our libraries that we want no one else to see?
4. What are we renting at the local video stores? How many hours
do we spend watching TV? How many adulteries did we watch last
week? How many murders? How many did we watch with our children?
5. How many chapters of the Bible did we read last week?
A
little boy asked his mother where he came from, and also where she
had come from as a baby. His mother gave him a tall tale about a
beautiful white-feathered bird. The boy asked his grandmother the
same question and received a variation on the bird story. Outside
to his playmate he said, "You know, there hasn't been a
normal birth in our family for three generations."
Teen
facts. Since the popular push for contraceptives for teens began,
teenage sexual activity and pregnancy have increased 400%. 70% of
unwed teen mothers will go on welfare. Of teens who marry because
of pregnancy, 60% will be divorced in five years.
A
study at a Midwestern school showed that 80% of the women who had
intercourse hoped to marry their partner. Only 12% of the men had
the same expectation
Sex
is not the most important part of a love relationship. A Syracuse
University survey asked married couples to rank the 10 most
important things in a marriage relationship. Caring, a sense of
humor and communication came in first, second and third. Sex came
in ninth, just ahead of sharing household duties.
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