Someone Must Address The Problem

A man went to a town that was on the river, and he went to a restaurant that was right on the river. As he walked up to the river, he looked out over the river and a guy was fishing. While he was fishing, an alligator came up and just chomped the guys arm right off. The man was absolutely shocked as anyone would be, and so he ran up and said, “Are you alright?! That Alligator just ate your arm!” The other guy said, “What? What are you talking about?” The man responded, “Your arm! Remember you were casting with it and reeling with it and now it isn’t there anymore?” He responded, “What are you talking about my arm? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” The man was disturbed and he looked across the way and saw a man that was missing part of his leg. He walked into the restaurant and saw people all over the place with parts missing out of their side, backside, limbs, and they were scarred all over the place. It was obvious that they had been attacked by alligators. As the man walks into the restaurant he says, “Hey, what’s going on? We’ve got to get rid of these alligators.” Then someone responded, “Wait a second, we don’t talk about alligators in our culture. We’re just not allowed to talk about them. We just don’t cross that bridge. We don’t go there.” But he said, “But they’re destroying people.” They said, “Listen, we just do not talk about alligators here. We let people figure it out all on their own.”

Unfortunately, this parable I heard from Pastor Chris Chadwick describes so well a mentality that exists in Christianity today. This is very much what it is like when it comes to the topic of sex in local New Testament churches. It feels like if you bring up sexuality in any sense, the response is, “we just don’t talk about that here!” If not there, then where do we talk about it? I must be honest, in regards to that subject I learned most of what I know in two places: the boys locker room, and the bench of my little league baseball team. Sadly, the first time I was introduced to pornography was at a friend’s house in 6^th grade. This is not an uncommon story. If something does not happen, sexual education will continue to be promoted only through sources like Hollywood, television, public schools, locker rooms, little league benches, dirty magazines/websites, and any other means you can think of that won’t teach what the Bible says. My friends, something must be done.

Pornography, adultery, fornication, and lust are destroying lives everywhere. Youth, adults, singles, couples, homes, and churches are being affected by immorality. The Bible has a lot to say about sex and sexuality. It is time to stand up and address it. I believe that a biblical understanding of sex, and teaching what the Bible has to say about it would solve and prevent many problems in the lives of Christians. If you would like to learn a little more about some ways that the Bible addresses sexual purity, please read the post titled “Purity” from Tuesday, July 21st, 2009.