Comments on: Let’s Talk About Sex—Or Not

By: the view from her

the view from her — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:35:03 +0000

straight talk about sex…

Dan Edelen wants to talk about sex…or not. “The greatest truth I’ve learned on the topic, the one guaranteed to drive one’s partner wild with ecstasy, comes right from the Bible. If explored to its depths, every ramification plumbed, I can guarant…

By: George

George — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:24:01 +0000

I am currently listening to a set of CDs that present a series of sermons on Hebrews. On one of them, the pastor mentions that the book of Hebrews itself was meant as a sermon, and it would take about 35-40 minutes to read it thru as a sermon. He also mentioned that his series lasted a full year.

I mention this because if any pastor can cram 40 minutes of scripture into “only” 52 weeks, I don’t doubt that a pastor can take Dan’s two minutes on sex and turn it into a multi-week lecture.

While one function of the church is obviously to present Jesus, another is to uncover how His life is to be lived out in ours completely. Too many people are in & out Christians — Christians in church and “regular people” when they’re out. I believe it is useful for pastors to explain how to live out Christ while driving, while working, while shopping, while having sex — every facet of life.

And BTW — thx for leaving up Michael’s post. It has some great lines in there which I steal. I would feel safe using them around Christians who have shed those worldly cultural taboos that are the US equivalency of circumcision.

By: Alise

Alise — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:12:16 +0000

I think that if you’re not having mind-blowing sex in marriage that yes, you are missing out to some degree. I see no reason why abundant life shouldn’t include good married sex. One needn’t live in a perfect world to make that happen. And Oprah should absolutely NOT have the market on how to have that good sex — I think that’s probably what the ministers doing the sermon series are thinking.

I am NOT saying that God’s biggest concern is physical pleasure. But I don’t think for a second that it is unimportant to God. Again, the Scripture has an entire book dedicated to the joy of physical intimacy. That would indicate to me that God believes that it’s an important part of marriage.

Certainly social justice is important and should be addressed from the pulpit. And Christ crucified should get the bulk of our attention. But I don’t think that spending time discussing something that God ordained and that the world has massively screwed up is silly or wrong. To me, that’s very, very right.