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Theme of the Week: Repairing the Damage
By: Shane Morris|Published: August 2, 2012 12:00 AM
Topics: Culture/Institutions, Sexual Ethics, Theme-of-the-week

We've talked about our culture's devastatingly wrong view of sex, we've talked about the reasons behind it, and we've talked about wrong approaches to addressing it. Now, in the conclusion of our four-part series on sexual brokenness, we turn to the most important question of all "how can we fix it — not only in our culture, but in ourselves?"
TMW_SexualBrokenness_4As John Stonestreet says in his final Two-Minute Warning on this subject, the solution is understanding and proclaiming what's true and good about God's plan for sex. How do we do that? By placing it back in its right context.

As John, T. M. Moore, and Eric Metaxas agree this week, the ultimate cause of sexual brokenness is a "wrong roadmap" to sexual fulfillment — one which removes one of God's most beautiful gifts from its proper context of love, family, and commitment. The result, as we've seen, has been dehumanization on a massive scale, abuse of others and ourselves, and a general disregard for our bodies and their sacredness before God.

Placing sex back in its God-ordained context means one thing above all else: making it human again. Pornography, casual sex, rampant divorce, unfaithfulness, homosexuality and all other aspects of sexual brokenness have one thing in common: they see sex as merely the fulfillment of desire, and those desires as the only possible grounds for sex. But as you will find this week at the Colson Center, Christianity offers so much more.

Christianity, you will find, is the religion of sexual wholeness.

Explore This Week's Theme

Sexual_Brokenness2 In this week's Two-Minute Warning, John Stonestreet surveys the ruins wrought by belief in sexual utopia. But from those ruins, he says, individuals and the church can help people to rebuild a strong sexual ethic. Join us for the finale of a four-part series on sexual brokenness. >>Watch now.
TalkingPoints In this week's Talking Points, T. M. Moore debunks the insanity of a culture trying the same sins over and over, hoping to find satisfaction. That satisfaction, he says, can never be found in brokenness. It exists in God's design alone. And Christians are long overdo to speak up and most importantly, to model that design. >>Read more.
BreakPoint_Daily_Commentary_Metaxas In Thursday's BreakPoint Commentary, Eric Metaxas urges us to reject the culture's roadmap to sexual wholeness — one which essentially views our bodies as products or objects, and not as sacred parts of our being. That kind of roadmap will never help us navigate to the "goodness, richness and beauty" of sex as God designed it, he says. >>Read more.
point with stonestreet
 In Thursday's Point Commentary, John Stonestreet tackles the news that one of America's two leading political parties is in the process of adding so-called "gay marriage" to its official platform. But sloppy language like "marriage equality," he says, is easy to debunk if only we know how. This is not a lost cause. >>Read more.




Comments:

You'd say that just because you "feel" sexually broken, doesn't mean you are sexually broken. In the same way, if someone doesn't "feel" sexually broken, that doesn't mean he or she isn't. And if someone were to stop "playing by the rules" to feel better, then you'd say that sex is his god. So, that might have been why he felt sexually broken all along. He was too concerned about feeling sexually fulfilled, when that isn't the "whole picture." He was pursuing sex as an ends for himself and not as a means, as talked about in these ViewPoint Bible studies and videos. Maybe instead of just watching the videos, you should check out T.M. Moore's writings on it. He might address your question, or something like it.
Posted By: Madeline on August 05, 2012 12:02 AM
That's a "bribe sermon". What do you say to the ones who did play by the rules and still feel sexually broken?
Posted By: jason taylor on August 03, 2012 2:23 PM

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