There’s not a single one of us – married or otherwise – who hasn’t been affected by the so-called Sexual Revolution. I wouldn’t even know where to begin counting the time and money that has been invested over the past 40 years to persuade all of us that sexual intercourse can be casual and recreational. Counting the cost would be even harder: broken hearts, empty nights, ruined marriages, shattered lives, aborted babies … the list could go on and on.
You’d have to be from another planet (not Mars or Venus) to be unaffected by Cosmo sexual mores. You bump into them everywhere you turn. And believers have not done a very good job of countering the propaganda. Where Sex and the City promises recreational intercourse with pretty people, Christians have too often offered only platitudes, judgmentalism, or compromise. As a result, our sons and daughters (and husbands and wives) have been drawn into the same dead-end back alleys where unbelievers meet their unfortunate ends.
That’s why I was so delighted to read, over the weekend, The Thrill of the Chaste, a new book by Dawn Eden, a thirtysomething single whose frustration with “sex à la New York City” finally brought her to a point of accepting Christ and making him lord of her life, including her sexuality. Rather than buying into the “born-again virgin” mindset, however, she recognized that God uses even our poor choices to prepare us for the ministry he created us to have. Miss Eden has transformed her Cosmo past into a book that very candidly explains why that lifestyle is a dead end, details the price it exacts, and shows all of us a path forward into the kind of sexuality the Creator intended us to enjoy.
Anyone who could use some help seeing through the Enemy’s propaganda on casual sex, or knows someone who does (I think that covers just about all of us), needs to read this book. It’s the opening salvo of a new sexual revolution.
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