{"id":1424,"date":"2019-08-19T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"podlove-2019-08-19t13:44:10+00:00-4b17d7458ad86e5"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:15","slug":"cultivating-chastity-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cultivating-chastity-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Chastity &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t[podlove-episode-web-player publisher=\"1424\" post_id=\"1424\"]\n\t\n\t\t\n<p>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&#8217;s not because of anything the Bible teaches, but because of everything our culture teaches. There are many reasons Scripture warns us against worldliness&#8211;substituting cultural values for Godly values. The broken dreams of would-be husbands and wives are most certainly among those reasons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1aGzk0d4zPA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Previous Installments:<br \/>\nIntroduction &#8211; https:\/\/youtu.be\/IPr0LyLKSVk<br \/>\nPart 2 &#8211; The Church&#8217;s Failure<\/p>\n<p>Referenced:<br \/>\nWhat Losing My Virginity Taught Me About Faith: https:\/\/thefrisky.com\/girl-talk-what-losing-my-virginity-taught-me-about-faith\/<\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\nEvangelical Abstinence Culture is a Bust, but the Answer isn&#8217;t a Sexual Free-For-All: https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/12\/07\/yes-evangelical-abstinence-culture-bust-answer-isnt-sexual-free\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cultivating Chastity - Part 3 - The 96th Thesis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cultivating-chastity-part-2-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cultivating Chastity - Part 3 - The 96th Thesis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why have churches in America been teaching celibacy instead of chastity? 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