I have been pondering this generation’s preponderance for sex, and the normalizing of it in every aspect of our life. Our society has been dumbed down to the point that anything that is considered clever and funny is sex-related. What it really is, is crude, unimaginative humor, that appeals to our lowest nature. Can you go to a comedy movie these days that does not have a heavy dose of sex? I don’t think so. There is nothing in those movies that elevates and lifts us to a higher place. I know the pervasiveness of sex has taken the taboo off the subject, but how quickly we have fallen. IT IS EVERYWHERE! So what gives?

You could say that this is just of the creeping in of secularism into our lives, but the invasive and alluring nature of sex has led us to open up and talk about it even in our churches, in a graphic and not God-honoring way. Now I am not just talking about sex in a educational way, but an in-your-face style that leaves nothing to the imagination. What is going on here? Is it just me, or why do we continue to gravitate towards the lowest common denominator?

We home school our kids and one on the big reason we do it is to inoculate them from the disease of society. A vaccination is a small dose of the disease injected into your body so it can handle and fight it off. Once it has done this, a lifelong protection against that disease is now in place. When we present sex to our kids in a radical in-your-face style at church (so we can appeal to the lost or unsaved), we actually spread the disease under the guise of inoculating everyone.

Fire is the same way… you play with it too much, and you will get burned. Do you need to bring everyone to a roaring bonfire to make a point? Is it more titillating then instructional? Can’t you teach with a simple match? Well, a match isn’t very exciting. Yes, but it is instructional. Well, do you know how many more people would be here if there was a huge bonfire? Yes, but the whole teaching gets drowned out by the fact there is a huge fire in front of you. But, I really like huge fires. I am kind of mesmerized by them. And then BURNED!

Romans 16:19 (ESV)

“. . . but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.”   The Wesley commentary says:  As ignorant of this as possible.

Sex by it’s very nature has a high allure factor. We are drawn to it like bugs to a light. To crank up the heat in the attempt to instruct gets more people burned than people informed.