Hey friends, Alisa Childers here. As a Christian, are you finding yourself at odds with your

culture when it comes to issues regarding biblical sexuality and abortion?

Well, I've got some good news for you. We've been here before. Christianity was birthed

in the first century Roman Empire. And today we're going to talk about sex and abortion

in the Roman Empire and how did the Christians respond?

Oh my goodness, we have so much great stuff to talk about today.

This is an issue that I've been studying pretty intensely for about a year. So I'm

excited to kind of bring you some of the places I've landed on it. And I'm also going to

be giving you some great resources as we go along so that you can do your own research

as well. But if you're anything like me, you're finding yourself in a culture in which you're

swimming against the tide of popular thought when it comes to issues like sex and abortion.

In fact, we're finding ourselves in a culture that's actually hostile to our beliefs on those

issues. We're living in a culture that would consider us to be bigoted or hateful or fearful

because we hold to biblical teachings on these issues. And so the temptation can be to become

fearful or to cower or to shrink back. And to wonder, oh my goodness, what are we supposed to do?

How are we supposed to interact with our culture on these things? And in the tendency is to sort of

think that this has never happened before and we've got to figure it out. But in reality,

the church has been here before. The earliest Christians were in a similar spot. As we're in now,

only the differences is that their culture was much worse. I think there's the tendency sometimes

to think, oh man, things are getting so bad. This is just the worst it's ever been in history. Well,

actually, no, their culture was way worse and they were facing even deeper issues of social

tension and exclusion for the beliefs that they held. Because in our culture, it's understood and

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