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By Joe Wilkie<\/strong>
\nWarning: The following article addresses a very mature subject and uses the mature terms that go along with it.<\/strong>
\nIt has caused the rise and fall of the world\u2019s most powerful people, been at the forefront of billion dollar industries, contributed to both happy marriages and hateful divorces, been used in thousands of movies and talked about in millions of songs, and yet the church refuses to talk about it. What is it?
\nThe dreaded \u201cfour-letter word\u201d that is spelled with three: SEX.
\nI can probably count on one hand the number of times I heard this word in the church growing up. And I can count on no fingers (0) the number of times I heard the words \u2018masturbation,\u2019 \u2018orgasm,\u2019 \u2018penis,\u2019 \u2018vagina,\u2019 \u2018sexual pleasure,\u2019 and the like. You would think those words were banned by Christianity. As I grew older, questions formed on topics such as fornication, homosexuality, transgenderism, and pornography. But people in the church were too busy calling those things \u201cgross perversions\u201d to actually listen to the questions and have an open dialogue.
\nThe church\u2019s stigma surrounding sexual sins didn\u2019t help me too much as a 12-year-old boy who was quickly becoming addicted to porn. Where was I to turn to seek help in the struggle? Twelve felt like such a young age to be dealing with this, so something must be wrong with me. And I was supposed to be a good baptized boy, not a porn addict. Does that mean I\u2019d go to hell if I died? What would everyone else think if they found out?
\nIn reality, statistics dictate that at least two out of every three men<\/a> in my church were struggling with it as well, and four out of every five men ages 18-30.
\nAnd yet, I felt alone in my struggle, petrified to tell anyone at my church lest I be seen as a pervert. Why? Because Christianity, specifically the church of Christ, has done a terrible job with anything have to do with sexual education. The taboo nature of sexual topics and stigma attached to sexual sins keeps boys, girls, men, and women hidden in the darkness feeling completely hopeless.
\nSadly, I know most kids in the public schools know every slang term for male and female anatomy by the ripe old age of five, as was the case with the kids on the playground with my brother. I was a \u201csheltered homeschooler\u201d who was fortunate enough to escape that. But as five-year-olds walk around talking about male anatomy and teenagers get into hardcore porn and twenty-somethings engage in fornication and forty-year-olds have marital issues and sixty-year-olds divorce, the church buries its head in the sand and pretends that sexual sins and extreme marital issues couldn\u2019t possibly affect the church of Christ.
\nIt\u2019s time to wake up.
\nThe hypocrisy of acting as though we don\u2019t struggle in these areas is largely contributing to nearly 70% of our youth<\/a> leaving. We aren\u2019t real with people in letting them know our struggles and we barely even talk about topics of a sexual nature, so Christian kids and adults have nowhere to turn except Google and the world.
\n\u201cBut wait,\u201d you say, \u201cit isn\u2019t the church\u2019s job to discuss this. That should be the parents\u2019 jobs.\u201d When it comes to overall sexual education, I agree. Parents should be at the forefront of their kids\u2019 sex ed, and unfortunately, I believe many fail in this area. However, the church is tasked with the job of helping fellow Christians get to heaven and helping teach people about God\u2019s view on certain issues. While the public schools, news, and social media tell the youth that homosexuality, transgenderism, fornication, and pornography should be accepted and that God couldn\u2019t possibly condemn people for \u201cloving someone else,\u201d what is the church\u2019s response? Is that really what God thinks? Of course not, but do the kids, teens, and young adults in your church know that? Do they know about what a blessing sex is (in the proper context) and how it\u2019s a holy creation of God?
\nIt\u2019s time to make a change. It\u2019s time to rethink the way we handle sexual topics and sexual sins in the church. So, as a former porn addict and a current happily married professional therapist, I am going to start a series reexamining Christianity\u2019s response to sex, pregnancy, marriage, and the family. In this terrible world that has truly perverted sex, let us stand up and stop pretending that sex is the dirtiest creation of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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