Purity: Outdated? Irrelevant? Oppressive? Dean Inserra
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Purity culture: In some very deserved ways, it warrants the impassioned scrutiny. But is sexual purity itself oppressive? Pointless? Author Dean Inserra offers correction to destructive theology while pulling us back to sexual flourishing.
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| 0:00.0 | So I almost feel like the goal of purity culture was don't have sex and an unbeliever can |
| 0:04.6 | live that way. |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.6 | There are people who do not know Jesus, you know, I believe in heaven and hell that real |
| 0:10.3 | places where real people go. |
| 0:11.3 | I think there's people in hell right now who were virgins. |
| 0:14.5 | It's not virginity that's the goal. |
| 0:17.1 | It's holiness that's the goal. |
| 0:18.9 | And for the Christian that comes through Christ. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 0:34.4 | matter most. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:38.6 | You can find us at familylifetoday.com or on the Family Life app. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:57.4 | I've talked to so many women who grew up during the purity culture and they felt like |
| 1:03.8 | I have saved myself. |
| 1:05.4 | I have the ring. |
| 1:06.5 | I signed the card because that was a part of the purity culture time. |
| 1:11.1 | And then they got married and their sexual life was really difficult. |
| 1:17.5 | And they thought, what happened? |
| 1:19.2 | I thought God was going to bless me. |
| 1:20.8 | I thought God was going to gift me with this incredible because I did it his way. |
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