Sex Ed

We will embarking on a delicate journey for a few days.  It might make you a bit uncomfortable but it is one of those subjects needs to be addressed more frequently.  As you can tell from the title...you guessed it...SEX!!  We want to talk about it in frank terms...the way it should be taught.  But, we do not want to share this the way the world teaches it; we want to share about it the way that God made it and intended it to be.

In our culture today how we see sex portrayed is a wrong picture.  What we see displayed in movies, written about in Cosmopolitan magazine, and shared on the talk shows is not the way God made it.  Sex is a beautiful thing!  Sex was given to us by God!  What is seen in culture today is a lie from the enemy that we believe.  We are told by society that sex is supposed to sound a certain way or look a certain way or that it has to be done a certain way.

If we think about our ideas of sex and how it is supposed to be, we can usually trace it back to a time when we were first exposed to sexual things and how we responded to those things.  It might be a movie we saw, a conversation we had, or some risque or even pornographic pictures we saw.  Whatever it might have been those first exposures burn into our impressionable, young minds the hows, whys, and wheres of sex.  What would be the outcome if our first exposures to sex were made by godly men and women that we looked up to in our lives, hearing from the Word of God and from a morally sound basis?  I dare say that our perceptions of sex would be greatly different.

The beauty and divine purpose of sex can be seen within our very physical make-up.  The way that God made men's and women's bodies to fit together perfectly is irrefutable evidence of His plan for sex.  He made it for our pleasure and for our ability to reproduce....all for His glory.  The act of a husband and wife coming together in the act of sex is much more than just a physical act.  The way that God made it involves the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual.  The bond that takes place between two individuals when the act of sex occurs is one of the deepest and strongest that happens in our human existence.  And that is why the enemy of our souls seeks to devalue, distort, and destroy our sex lives.

So, for the next few days we would invite you to ask questions...questions about its purpose, your desires, how to spice it up, etc.  Go ahead and ask either through the blog email or on the comment page (don't worry...we won't post the comments!).  We're gonna take a big risk here...no question is off limits, ok?  With that being said, we'll tell you right now...this will make us as uncomfortable as it will you!  But, this is the type of forum we need more often in Christianity; an honest, open, and frank discussion about one of the most important areas or our marriages.  Honestly, we don't assume to have all the answers about sex.  But, we believe that we can learn the answers from the One who created it.  So, ask away and we'll all blush together.

Josh and Serena