Jr. High Ministry Teaches Youth How to Have ‘Best Sex Ever’

This screen shot speaks for itself.

This is from the website for the Youth Ministry at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Would you send your 12 or 13 year old daughter to this youth group knowing this was what they were teaching?

Comments

[Mike]

I sent this "church" an email asking them to explain themselves. I'm still waiting...

Mike

[Larry]

You ask, "Would you send your 12 or 13 year old daughter to this youth group knowing this was what they were teaching?"

What are they teaching?

[Prayer_Power]

I'll tell you exactly what they're going to teach. They're going to teach that the way to have the best sex ever is to save yourself for marriage, yadayadayada. A really poor way to get people interested. The youth who would be encouraged and edified by the message wouldn;t show up because of the wordly advertising, and the kids that would want to check something like that out won't care about the message. Sad.

[marc]

l'm all for telling youth to save themselves for marriage. The problem with this is kids will get interested not in the message but in the thought of great sex. You can't teach biblical morals by tempting kids to come and listen to you. The end does not justify the means. That's like having dancing girls in front of the Church while the pastor is giving an altar call.

[Tim Morrison]

Let me try once again to get a comment that doesn't quite agree posted. Prayer_Power, you said: "The youth who would be encouraged and edified by the message wouldn't show up because of the worldly advertising..." This is totally untrue. There are plenty of students who are solid in their faith that would want to hear how to glorify God through saving themselves for marriage who would not care about the advertising. I think what is sad is that you would category those who would both care to hear the message yet not care about the "worldly advertising" as apparently not "really" being of Christian character. Just the opinion of one student pastor, though (who happens to be Reformed by the way).

[m k]

The problem still remains. We are using worldly ways to entice kids to come and hear a message. This is what's wrong with everything. I heard a lady on TBN say that we as women in the Church need to be positive role models of godliness to the youth. Then she says girls are trying to live up to what they see in magazines like Cosmo and Elle. The real question here isn't a lack of role models in the Church (even though that is a problem) it's why are these Christian girls reading Cosmo and Elle in the first place!!!???? We want our kids to be holy and love God but we don't separate them from the world. And don't tell me it can't be done. You can say all you want that "my kids will get their hands on the stuff anyway". I disagree, if you teach them to be seaparate from the world they will not want it. Oh, they may fall occasionally but in the end the world will not appeal to them. I truly believe if Christians got rid off all the worldly things int their life they would have nothing to do. No fun, no entertainment, no freinds, no books, no music. Once they got rid of it they could use all that spare time reading and studying the word of God. Sorry to go off on a tangent.

[Rae]

I know the youth leader at this church. Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge. His motives were not bad. Unfortunately, most kids are already being confronted with sex at an extremely young age and he was just trying to deal with it the best way he could. I am not saying those magazines needed to be posted, they didn't. But his focus is on purity.

[Aletheia]

"No fun, no entertainment, no friends, no books, no music"? I can't imagine why God would want me to live that way. God created friendship. God created humans to love stories and enjoy good storytelling. God created music. No, the Christian life doesn't promise prosperity and it isn't always going to be pleasant, but God doesn't want us to be miserable ascetic hermits for its own sake either. If you gave a gift to someone you cared about, wouldn't you feel good to see that person using it and enjoying it? So why wouldn't God want us to take pleasure in the simple, good things that exist in this world?

And speaking as a woman in her mid-20s who isn't married but would like to be someday, I find it comforting to think that I'm really NOT missing out on something all that great just because I want my FIRST to be my ONLY. I see the advertising for this program as a bit humorous - poking fun at all those magazines that suggest endless positions and products to spice things up in the bedroom, occasionally tossing a bone to the value of love and commitment by suggesting you wait to get to know the person a few weeks or even a couple of months before you hop in the sack. Of course, if these magazines really told their readers the truth about why their one-night stands just don't always leave them feeling satisfied (sexually or otherwise), they might have a hard time staying in business.