Cultivating Chastity – Part 3

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Why have churches in America been teaching celibacy instead of chastity? Why are we so focused on abstinence from sex rather than entering into godly marriages? It’s not because of anything the Bible teaches, but because of everything our culture teaches. There are many reasons Scripture warns us against worldliness–substituting cultural values for Godly values. The broken dreams of would-be husbands and wives are most certainly among those reasons.

Previous Installments:
Introduction – https://youtu.be/IPr0LyLKSVk
Part 2 – The Church’s Failure

Referenced:
What Losing My Virginity Taught Me About Faith: https://thefrisky.com/girl-talk-what-losing-my-virginity-taught-me-about-faith/

Related:
Evangelical Abstinence Culture is a Bust, but the Answer isn’t a Sexual Free-For-All: https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/07/yes-evangelical-abstinence-culture-bust-answer-isnt-sexual-free/

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Software engineer by trade; lay theologian by nature; Lutheran by grace.
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