Where am I ? What am I Doing ? + a thought on 4
Where am I ? What am I doing ? thought I would inform all of whats happening over the next few weeks....
- Gerrard St Baptist Church 27th
- Evangelism training IBC 1st June
- Youth Event 2nd June
- Crown Street Baptist Church 3rd
- SU weekend away 8-10
- Old Machar C of S 17,24th of June
on a different sunject.....
We have Desperate Housewives! and now we have Desperate Virgins.
Channel 4 in the last few weeks has been airing a number of life documentaries focussing on Sex and sexuality in our culture. They followed the story of a couple of individuals one in late 20s and another in 40s who were still virgins but felt like second class people...because they hadnt had sex. Everyone around them was...but they hadn't. Ive got to be honest ...I was gutted at how they felt that just by having sex they would begin feel more human, more connected. One of them, who professed to go to church said they had even prayed about sleeping with some one, and paid for the services of an escort. - I am gutted that we think that just by having sex! and it doesn't matter who its with! that this will aid us in reconnecting with others and some how begin to deal with the deeper issues of insecurity, lack of love, pain of life and rejection!
Being single isn't easy...come to think of it being married isn't easy...life isn't always easy.
but surely, sex is far more than just a physical act...In fact one of the guys in the programme was given coaching in picking up ladies at a bar. Eventually the guy stopped, he didn't want to objectify the women..sure their was some lessons in self confidence , but he said, "in the end I want to fall in love"...I want to be with some one that I can share my life with. Good on ya mate.
nothing like a bit of a rant....but on a serious note I felt for those in the programme, I don't want to be patronising...we need to put our selves in other people shoes, and walk a little. Feeling lonely, isolated, hurt, misunderstood, with desires and dreams that we just don't know how to fulfill. And what the world does, is offers a brief moment of bliss in amongst all the confusion and loneliness. Surely there is a better way..a way that does satisfy? or at least begins to peel back the layers and get to whats underneath it all.
Rob bells new book really is worth a read. Sex.God - if you like velvet Elvis you'll like this one.
He says... I know a lot of people who are having sex..but have no intimacy. I know a lot of people that arnet having sex and are very intimate. What hes getting at is we desperately need to re connect with God, when that happens we connect with others the way its should be... theres loads in it...Check it out. I think hes speaking to our generation that is desperately thirsty for a deeper connection we just need some re wiring before we plug in.
love some comments
Ducey
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Originally published on 2007-05-23 11:13:37 by James Duce
Last edited on 2007-05-23 11:37:55 by James Duce
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Left by Ian Ferguson on 2007-06-10 23:36:22 #
I couldn't agree more about Rob Bell's new book. He courageously tackles some of the issues surrounding sexuality, and how God is interested in ours, but in a surprisingly fresh way which challenges us to be intimate and not to be forced to act like animals or angels, depending on where we are at the time, just because that is what our culture is telling us what to do.
Left by Forbesy on 2007-06-27 16:40:02 #
God's design of sex is for two people to really be, as you have and Rob have said James, intimate and connect at a deeper level than can be found at other levels, thus you leave a bit of yourself with your partner. So when the world puts pressure to make this connection shallower it robs us of what God has always intended it to be.
PS - God also designed it for fun, so high fives with all the married guys!
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