Two Wrong Perspectives About Sex
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Many of us enter marriage with a distorted view of God's design for sex. To give you some hope, Jim Daly talks with Dr. Juli Slattery about two wrong perspectives about sex, and how God can redeem them. You'll also hear John Fuller chat with the Smalley's about why there's a spiritual battle regarding our sexuality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.8 | Sex and marriage is enjoyable and a wonderful gift, but for some people there's some past |
| 0:26.7 | shame and difficulty. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron, and they |
| 0:32.0 | lead the Focus Marriage team. And we're going to hear now from Dr. Julie Slattery. She's an expert |
| 0:37.6 | on this topic of intimacy and marriage, and she really has a compassionate heart for those who |
| 0:43.6 | are struggling. In a previous episode, Julie and Focus President Jim Daily talked about how a |
| 0:49.6 | healthy sex life in marriage is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle because it does take time. |
| 0:56.0 | And there are two predominantly wrong pictures that we can work from. One is the one that you |
| 1:01.7 | mentioned, Jim, which is all about following the rules. It's about duty. It's about the fear |
| 1:07.8 | of getting God angry because of our sexual choices or our longings. And there is this shame and fear |
| 1:15.3 | that, again, as you mentioned, is sort of conditioned. That my sexuality, I guess God created it, |
| 1:21.6 | but it's also somehow shameful because of things I've experienced in the past, because of sin |
| 1:28.0 | that I still feel really guilty about, or even just my body. I'm not comfortable with the sexual |
| 1:34.0 | aspects of my body. And so that's one picture that if a couple is looking at, or even the woman |
| 1:41.2 | or the man is looking at and saying it's all about the rules, there are a lot of pieces in your |
| 1:47.0 | puzzle that aren't going to fit into that picture. And so you get really confused. The other |
| 1:52.3 | picture that I think is becoming more predominant today is the culture's picture of sex. That is |
| 1:58.4 | fueled by pornography and the idea that sex is all about your personal fulfillment. You have to |
| 2:05.1 | be compatible. It's always going to be pleasurable and fun. And when it's not, something is really |
| 2:12.2 | wrong. And if you're working towards the wrong picture, you really don't have a hope of how to |
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