Sexual Purity after Purity Culture: What Should We Know? Dean Inserra
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Serious flaws in purity culture deserve scrutiny—especially given its lasting negative effects on some raised in the movement. Many Christians today reject wholesale the movement and all that it stood for. But is there still a place for sexual purity? Author Dean Inserra dives into God's flawless design for sex.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just the sake of argument. |
| 0:02.2 | Say that everything that they negatively say about purity culture, looking back on it |
| 0:06.4 | is true. |
| 0:07.4 | Just the sake of argument. |
| 0:09.7 | Does that change the fact that God has a clear design? |
| 0:12.9 | And the answer is not even a little bit. |
| 0:14.7 | Like, God is not the one who's moved on this. |
| 0:16.9 | You know, the scriptures have not moved. |
| 0:18.7 | It's the culture that's moved. |
| 0:20.0 | So I'm going to tell you something that just just clearing the Bible as loving your neighbor |
| 0:23.3 | and as helping the poor and as forgiving those who have wronged you, and that's God's |
| 0:26.8 | design for this. |
| 0:37.9 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter |
| 0:42.2 | most. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Shelby Abbott, and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:46.3 | You can find us at familylifetoday.com or on the Family Life app. |
| 0:50.8 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:56.8 | So, I become a Christian by junior and college, and I start being mentored by Bill. |
| 1:10.2 | Bill Kremens. |
| 1:11.2 | You've talked about Bill a lot. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, he was a senior student, actually. |
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