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Thursday, July 8, 2010
How Can You Tie Sex To The Gospel?
The other day while on yet another Christian message board...Browsing and reading some of the post and topics...One topic discussion caught my attention...It was the topic of "sex" and the poster I have to the left....Someone ask should/could "SEX" be used for a sermon title? Some one stated that the poster in question was very misleading and it should not have been used for a sermon series title.
It seem from the discussion on the board that a pastor somewhere had used that particular poster and title for a sermon series....Someone made this statement which kinda of piss off a couple of the board members:
"If you truly understand the Gospel, then you can discuss any topic and bring it back to the Gospel. If you are a God-centered preacher, then you can take ANY topic and bring it back to the cross.What is wrong with leveraging topics or pop culture themes that are "taboo like sex, money, and different lifestyles" to get people in the church"?
Of course I feel that sex, money and other lifestyles...Are certainly not topics to be avoided by the pulpit...But such advertising like the image in the poster is some what misleading..."Storybook sex"come on!What exactly does God say about sex that most churches haven't said already?...Sex is a gift from God for married people, and to have sex before marriage is fornication and outside of marriage is the sin of adultery. So, what else is there left on that subject to discuss? So what do you think is that particular poster and sermon title misleading?
It seem from the discussion on the board that a pastor somewhere had used that particular poster and title for a sermon series....Someone made this statement which kinda of piss off a couple of the board members:
"If you truly understand the Gospel, then you can discuss any topic and bring it back to the Gospel. If you are a God-centered preacher, then you can take ANY topic and bring it back to the cross.What is wrong with leveraging topics or pop culture themes that are "taboo like sex, money, and different lifestyles" to get people in the church"?
Of course I feel that sex, money and other lifestyles...Are certainly not topics to be avoided by the pulpit...But such advertising like the image in the poster is some what misleading..."Storybook sex"come on!What exactly does God say about sex that most churches haven't said already?...Sex is a gift from God for married people, and to have sex before marriage is fornication and outside of marriage is the sin of adultery. So, what else is there left on that subject to discuss? So what do you think is that particular poster and sermon title misleading?