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Thank-you to my friend in campus ministry who passed along, John Stackhouse's recent post The Reality of Sex. May followers of Christ not be found to be fools regarding the gift of our bodies. Here is a benefical quote:

Christians Are Against Sexual Confusion: Our society is both crazy and conflicted about sex. We’re crazy about it in the sense that we are preoccupied with it and exploit each other’s preoccupation with it. Consider your morning commute. Count the number of sexual messages you receive—from the music on your iPod or car CD player, from the radio, from billboards, from bumper stickers, from bus advertisements—between home and school or work. We don’t devote the same attention to, say, food, or politics, or anything.

But we’re deeply conflicted about sex, too. At one and the same time, our society repeats to us the contradiction that sex is no big deal and that sex is the most important thing in the world. Sex is recreational and sex is required. Sex is just another activity to round out a pleasant Saturday and sex is something without which you become pathetic and finally insane . . . [Note: Take some time to read the material in between].

But it seems to me that we do well to start here, at the most basic level of definition. Sex is a good thing. Amen! But it is a particular thing, not just whatever we want it to be. And we will enjoy it and benefit from it best if we both make the effort to understand it and then make the effort to use it properly.

That sounds awfully serious and adult and responsible, doesn’t it?

You got that right.

Amen.