Alright, by now many of you have probably heard about our series “Satan’s Sex Ed.” If you haven’t, you eventually will. Some have asked why we are talking about this. Well, the main reason is because students are. We live in a city in which students are bombarded with sexual material that is shaping their thinking about sex. Studies tells us that “by the time a typical child reaches ten or eleven years of age, he or she has seen on television and in movies or at least heard about not only sexual intercourse but also oral sex, multiple partners, masturbation, anal sex, and any other form of sexual expression and experimentation a human can invent.” (Clark, pg. 130) This may come as a shock, but I can tell you that doesn’t surprise me. You wouldn’t believe the conversations I have already had with my son due to some of the things he has seen and heard. It seems that the sexual material our students encounter has left them thinking sex is just simply a physical act that is void of intimacy, love, and commitment that God reveals to us in the scriptures.
What can we do as parents? Well, as Christians we must model what a healthy Christian marriage should look like. Over the years I have noticed that many teens and young adults do not think too highly of marriage as they have seen, or heard about, how over half of all first-time marriages fail. Yet, what has surprised me is how closely teens and young adults will watch my marriage to see if it is any different from the other marriages they have experienced. As married Christians we must celebrate and model marriage as God intended it to be. One the greatest gifts you can give your children is not a car, a computer or even a college education. One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is to model what a God honoring marriage looks like. Sex is a gift from God given to us to be enjoyed within marriage. It is a gift given to you to express the deep feelings of love, trust, romance and desire for your spouse. So let’s fight to show this to our children. Do your teens know that you love each other? Do they see how you show affection to your spouse? Do they see how you forgive and discuss your differences in a loving way? How are you working on building your marriage? Is your marriage one that your children long to have one day? These are questions that cross my mind when I think about and pray for my children’s future marriages.
Websites to check out….
Marital Support: http://www.canyonridge.org/default.aspx?page=8561
Marriage 101: http://www.canyonridge.org/default.aspx?page=8442
*Clark, Chap. Hurt: inside the world of today's teenagers. 2004. Baker: Grand Rapids.
amazing stuff thanx :)
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