The Church and Pollyamory on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Now, I don't know about many of you, but this past week, we were confronted, I think, in the

Christian world through an article in Christianity today under this title, Polyamory,

Pastors Next Sexual Frontier. I think this is an important topic for us to

address, particularly as counselors, and more specifically as biblical counselors. And so I want

today for us to discuss this issue, in brief, we certainly can't deal with all of the aspects

of polyamory and the sexual revolution

that is occurring all around us.

But I want us to address maybe some basic ideas.

In this Christianity Today article, polyamory is defined like this, from the Greek poly,

meaning many, and the Latin Amor, meaning love.

It refers to the practice of or desire for intimate relationships with more than one partner,

with the consent of all partners involved.

Now, this is an issue for many reasons, but we knew that this kind of thing was coming.

When we began to look at the sexual frontier and we began to excuse even in the Christian

world, not just in our culture at large, but in the Christian world, when we begin to allow

different sexual preferences that are abominations against the Word of God, to enter, there is no place

at which this ceases.

This will continue from things like homosexuality or even the acceptance of cohabitation

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