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Guiding our Youth in Today’s Hyper Sexual Culture

There are 6.6 sexual incidents per hour on daytime television soap operas

1 out of 8 television shows depicts or strongly implies sexual intercourse

Prime-time television has 25 instances of sexual behavior for every one instance of preventive behavior or comment

Movies most popular with youth contain multiple instances of sexual intercourse in less than two hours

The U.S. spends $13.3 billion a year on adult entertainment (more than professional sporting events)

50% of people who stay in corporate hotel chains purchase adult films on in-room pay-per-view systems

Playboy web site averages 5 million hits per day

About 80% of students in a poll at James Madison University said they had hooked up during their four years of college

They also had an average of 11 hook-up partners in college

Five Biblical Principles to Guide us in Light of Today’s Sexual Culture

 1. We need to know the devastating toll sexual sin will take on us.  Do you want to pay this kind of price?   (1 Corinthians 3:16, 17; 6: 16-18)

2. We need to know how serious God takes it when we don’t control our own sexual urges and take advantage of another sister or brother. Are you aware of these consequences?  (I Thessalonians 4: 3-7))

3. We need to nurture the wholesome yearning in life for intimacy (John 15) Most sexual sin is a counterfeit for someone’s search for intimacy

4. We need to act on the power of covenanting with God  (Job 31:1)

5. We can enjoy this wonderful, life-giving relationship of knowing our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in us. (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20)