What on a breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth for the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A few weeks ago, my friend, professor and apologist Sean McDow, asked a group of his high school students to identify the biggest lies about sex that are prevalent in culture today.

Well they did that and then Sean invited me on his YouTube podcast to talk about them.

The first lie is if it feels good, do it. Here's what Sean had to say.

I took this to my students. I said, okay, so the basis of right and wrong here is feelings

should we decide what we do based on our feelings I said can you think of any

examples of feelings that we have that we shouldn't act on.

Well, if you just come up with one example, then you realize we should gauge our feelings against another standard.

The right thing cannot feel against another big lie, lie the student said is you are missing out again here's Sean as a teenager I

remember feeling like oh I'm missing out sex is everywhere I've got to wait all

these years like that's a natural feeling to have but that the first time so I thought oh wait a minute

there might be other people who are missing out on something better because of their actions

a third lie that Sean and I discussed on the program was,

it's weird to save yourself for marriage.

Here's how I tackled that one.

It is weird, and maybe that's okay. In other words, maybe being weird is not the worst thing ever is what I'm saying.

Because when you say something like it's weird to save yourself for marriage, you're actually not saying something necessarily about the Christian in this case you're saying

something about the norm of that cultural setting maybe it's better to be

weird than to be normal in a cultural moment like ours.

A prevalent lie, one that's not just tempting to younger generations,

but to all of us who are tempted to compromise our morality,

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