Dr. Russell Moore is the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

He joins us again today, filling in for John Piper.

Dr. Moore, as you know, the landscape of sexual ethics in America is changing rapidly.

It may be faster than anyone could have expected.

You carefully studied the trends of our culture.

In your opinion, what do you expect in the near future?

Where is the American sex ethic headed?

And what will be the fallout?

I was with my grandmother one time, years and years ago, we ran into a woman in the community

where I grew up who had divorced her husband and she had moved in with a man that she wasn't

married to.

My grandmother was very kind to her.

She was asking her, how are you doing, what's going on in your life?

My grandmother said, and how is your lover?

And I remember being taken back and when the woman left, I said to my grandmother, what

did you just say?

And she said, well, isn't that what you call it?

A lover?

And I said, you know what, don't ever say lover again.

And it was at this moment of skin crawling in my own life.

But I realized the reason that my grandmother was so awkwardly handling this is because

she had never met anybody, I don't think, in real life who was in that situation.

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