Purity In Today’s World
How we think about sex reflects how we view the world we live in and the God who created it. Juli Slattery and Ron Deal examine the mixed messages of the purity culture with truth and clarity.
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How we think about sex reflects how we view the world we live in and the God who created it. Juli Slattery and Ron Deal examine the mixed messages of the purity culture with truth and clarity.
Bob: I think most of us recognize that the cultural messages about sexuality and purity point us away from God’s design. But I think what’s less obvious is some of the ways that we have not presented God’s truth about sexuality well. And when that happens with children and teenagers in the formative years, the implications for dating and marriage can be profound.
I want to recommend to you a book that Juli Slattery has written that I think you will find really helpful if your thinking about purity and sexuality has been confused in any way. She’s written a book called Rethinking Sexuality: God’s Design and Why It Matters. It’s a book we’ve got in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center. You can order the book from us online—our website is FamilyLifeToday.com—or you can call to order; the number is 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website, FamilyLifeToday.com; the number to call to order Juli Slattery’s book, Rethinking Sexuality, is 1-800-358-6329; that’s 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word, “TODAY.”
You know, these kinds of important conversations are a part of our mission here, at FamilyLife, which is to effectively develop godly marriages and families. We believe godly marriages and families can change the world one home at a time. Our goal here, at FamilyLife, is to provide you with the kind of practical biblical help and hope you need for your marriage and your family to strengthen it, to undergird it, and to keep you pointed in the right direction—keep you looking at Jesus—and wanting to please Him in all that you do.
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And we hope you can be with us, again, tomorrow when Ron Deal and Juli Slattery will take us to 1 Corinthians 7 to show us what purity in marriage is supposed to look like.
On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I’m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today.
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