Mark and Rex wade into the delicate waters of sex and Christian culture. On one hand the church has been labeled as prudish and uptight but on the other hand, statistics show that sexual practice matters little whether you are inside or outside the church.

TRANSCRIPT

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Hey, welcome to Jessup. Think I'm your host, Mark Moore and

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your co host, Rex Gurney.

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And today, Rex, we are talking about a topic that we may be approached with fear and trepidation is a topic that

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I avoided for a long time dealing with until I got convicted that I couldn't

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avoid it. Right. And it's a topic we need to talk about. And we definitely need to talk about it without fear and trepidation. That's something we need to talk about. So we're going to talk about sex and Christian culture. And I hope you enjoy. So I hope you stick around for for the show, it's going to be part one or part two. And in this episode, we're going to kind of talk about maybe statistics within the church right of of our use of sex and abuse of sex. But then also, yeah, culturally, how that how we can frame the conversation. Yeah,

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and talk about it in a redemptive way. In our community. That's right.

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So hope you enjoy. Now, Rex, yeah, today we are, we're going to be talking about a topic that that is one that you kind of brought to our kind of brainstorming session. Oh, my God. Yeah, you know, I have to right away, I'm distancing myself

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we are going to go for at least our own podcast has not gone but yeah. So we're boldly going where no podcasts right. Gossip has gone before?

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That's true. Yeah. As as the only podcast. That's right. But we do, but I think it is an extremely important topic, right. And we want to talk about sex and Christian culture. So and not just and we I think we want to kind of why I've been kind of titling in that is, is to make a distinction between we're not talking about just sex in our culture, or our culture's view of sex. But we actually want to be a little bit more pinpointed on, on on how sex is maybe viewed within the Christian culture, how is it how it is expressed within the Christian culture, and, and things that we are maybe noticing trends that we are noticing, we're gonna, I really think we're gonna look at the good and the bad, and try to parse just

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gonna try to reframe the issue in a way that especially millennials, and younger Christians, um, will actually understand and pay attention to, actually because, you know, there is an issue that we sort of don't talk about a lot. And it is the fact that there's a significant percentage of young adults who view themselves, even as evangelical Christians that simply reject part of the traditional Christian sexual ethic, and particularly the part about premarital sex. Right? It's not that they're ignorant of the teaching of the Bible. They simply reject it for one reason or another. Yeah. And I think we can both agree that the biblical eminent admonitions and and teaching on this has been pretty consistent through the past 2000 plus years, Ram hasn't really changed much. So how can we maybe reframe the conversation so folks would would take the traditional Christian teaching more seriously than apparently a lot of Christians do. Right. And I've heard that we just need to yell louder at people. That doesn't seem to be working now. Yeah, no. So are there other ways we can talk about it? Are there ways we can address this problem?

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Yeah. And it seems like that there's might be a good place to start is kind of look at why it has been rejected. I mean, I think it's kind of noticing the stats, maybe behind it. Although it's kind of interesting. It does seem like maybe within millennials, and even in Gen Xers, there was kind of this move against the biblical sexual ethic, but also kind of seeing some recent stats where like, Generation Y is having less sex than predecessor. Right, right. Engaging in even dru