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Maintaining Biblical Sexual Ethics

A few of years ago Carl Trueman made a statement about the temptation and tendency to consider oneself faithful and trendy: Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name

Trueman writes,

You really do kid only yourselves if you think you can be an orthodox Christian and be at the same time cool enough and hip enough to cut it in the wider world. Frankly, in a couple of years it will not matter how much urban ink you sport, how much fair trade coffee you drink, how many craft brews you can name, how much urban gibberish you spout, how many art house movies you can find that redeemer figure in, and how much money you divert from gospel preaching to social justice: maintaining biblical sexual ethics will be the equivalent in our culture of being a white supremacist.

Who would have thought that his prescient writing would come to be a few short years later. Biblical sexual ethics is one of the key watershed issues for the Christian and the church today!

A few questions to ponder:

  • How do you uphold the biblical ethic in this day that considers it intolerant, at best, or bigoted and hateful, at worst?
  • How do you teach and equip God’s people in the realm of biblical sexual ethics today, including parents to instruct their children?
  • How do you teach through instruction and modelling how to uphold these truths and live them out in today’s culture that despises them, i.e., how do you respond in lips and life?
Greg Strand

Greg Strand is EFCA executive director of theology and credentialing, and he serves on the Board of Ministerial Standing as well as the Spiritual Heritage Committee. He and his family are members of Northfield (Minnesota) EFC.

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