Purity In Today’s World
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How we think about sex reflects how we view the world we live in and the God who created it. Juli Slattery and Ron Deal examine the mixed messages of the purity culture with truth and clarity.
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| 0:00.0 | I was a youth minister in the mid-80s, and we spent time talking with our youth about |
| 0:08.5 | sexuality, and we inadvertently just went too far, and some of it became creating a |
| 0:14.5 | picture of, this is what purity is, and if you're not hitting this bull's eye, then there's |
| 0:19.1 | something wrong with you. |
| 0:20.5 | So listen to the message. |
| 0:22.1 | If you live perfectly, if you make this choice and you walk it out, then you will have a |
| 0:27.4 | wonderful marriage, all your dreams are going to be fulfilled on the back of that. |
| 0:31.5 | I basically told our kids, that's, you know, that's a prosperity gospel. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 0:51.8 | matter most. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm Ann Wilson, and I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at Family Life Today, that |
| 0:57.4 | com, or on our Family Life app. |
| 1:00.2 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 1:12.6 | What our boys were, I think, 15, 13, and 10. |
| 1:16.6 | We heard this epic story, actually, we thought of a friend of ours, whose son was getting |
| 1:21.6 | married, and his wedding was going to be his first kiss, and we had all kinds of |
| 1:27.3 | questions about it. |
| 1:28.3 | Like, wait, what? |
| 1:29.3 | The first one's going to be in front of all these people. |
| 1:32.2 | But at the other side, we're like, that is the greatest vision ever. |
| 1:36.0 | That's what we want for our son. |
| 1:37.3 | So remember, we went and shared it with them. |
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