Going Beyond the "Sex Question"

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“I want to offer a pastoral look at the underlying issues that prompt these questions and encourage pastors to go for the heart, not merely the surface, when approached with questions of this kind.” The issues he identifies: 1. Recognize the legitimacy of the questions. 2. Go beyond the surface of the questions. 3. Challenge our culture’s obsession with sex. Go Beyond the Sex Questions.

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Evangelicals’ Collapsing Sexual Mores

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… even as 80 percent of young unmarried evangelicals are sexually active, 76 percent of evangelicals still believe sex outside of marriage is wrong. Even worse, 65 percent of women who abort their children identify as Catholic or Protestant Christian — that’s 650,000 Christian abortions per year. …This is of a piece with the larger American evangelical culture, which — despite the “Jesusland” stigma of the secular Left — is only slightly countercultural.

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