{"id":52,"date":"2011-03-31T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:29","slug":"teaching-chastity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/teaching-chastity\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Chastity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, when Christians address the issue of sexuality in American culture, we make the mistake of teaching the practice of abstinence (don&#8217;t have sex until you&#8217;re married) instead of teaching the virtue of chastity (directing your sexuality towards marriage even as you wait for sex).\u00a0 Thankfully, Rev. Fisk begins teaching the latter in what is probably the best 20 minutes I&#8217;ve seen on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YV9UHxu2sjw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YV9UHxu2sjw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/outerrimterritories.com\/not-until-i-say-i-do\">Not Until I Say I Do<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, when Christians address the issue of sexuality in American culture, we make the mistake of teaching the practice of abstinence (don&#8217;t have sex until you&#8217;re married) instead of teaching the virtue of chastity (directing your sexuality towards marriage even &hellip; 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