Good video. I would just highlight the last point. Christians really need to learn that where God, for His reasons, has chosen to remain silent then we should as well. It's ok to ask a question and to be curious about things that aren't specifically addressed in Scripture but at the end of the day the mature Christian should understand that God has good reason for not addressing those things and should focus their attention on what He has said.
The "true love waits" effort was a total failure and it failed for many reasons. The SBC, and Christians in general, think Biblical sexual abstinence is all about sexual intercourse. As one young lady said..."I've been held every way I can be held, touched every way I can be touched, kissed every way I can be kissed....but I'm still a virgin!" Is this the goal? Is this what sexual purity means? No...this is not what God means by sexual purity. The dating culture is an abysmal failure and the church needs to repent of this ridiculous pagan practice.
No one who is a committed Christian should ever think that the purity movement was only about sexual intercourse. I read a lot of stuff about it back then, being in college at the time, and I received many messages about considering every activity and not just focusing on one act. I found five rules for dating that I thought made sense, and they still do: 1. Don’t pull anything up. 2. Don’t pull anything down. 3. Don’t lie down. 4. Keep your tongue in your mouth. 5. Don’t touch anything that sticks out. Common sense can keep young people away from immorality. The problem is that common sense is in such short supply these days, when everyone wants to push the boundaries and even remove walls for the sake of “personal autonomy,” The goal of the purity movement was to stand athwart the hookup/breakup culture and encourage true commitment of individuals toward the purity of others as well as themselves. If you truly loved someone, you wouldn’t take physical advantage of them sexually. And the best family structure is a committed man and woman raising their mutual children.
"True love waits" was not a total failure. Not even close. The rest is true. "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", a product of the "true love waits" did a great job of exposing the "dating culture". And it took a lot of flack for it. Attempts to discredit the truths put forth in the book were magnified when the author "came out" and renounced the book.
@@Proximityillusions Thank you for the response. Words on paper does not translate to actions much less result in changed hearts. “Common sense” is subjective and not rooted in God’s Word. The purity movement is/was a failure not because of the ideas on paper. Rather, the approach, and its attempted application, was a man-made approach to change the hearts and minds of young men and women. The desired results never materialized. Any more than a Catholic ceremony with vows of celibacy changes hearts of the pagan Catholic. The statistics speak for themselves. It’s hard to make people pure who don’t want to be pure. Metaphorically, fences/rules can be built but they will not stop the criminal. We wanted to make rules thinking it would change hearts rather than using God’s Word…not “purity rings,” “purity letters,” “purity promises,” or any other gimmick which were mere fences that did not change hearts. God’s Word should have then, and must be today, used to change hearts. In fact, why in the world would we want to delay marriage of our young people and admonish them to “celibacy” while at the same time encouraging them into “dating” situations where they are at the same time tempted to violate those rules all while encouraging our young people to “wait” and get an education and get a job before marriage. This has been and is insanity and the results, again, speak for themselves. Ridiculous ideas like the MGTOW movement, 80%+ view porn and were then and are now having sex before marriage (to say nothing of “lighter” sex acts), high rates of divorce, 1.8 birthrate, and the general apostasy of the millennial generation (the children of the “purity movement” generation) all tell the tale. Again, this has and is happening IN the church. The church bought…hook, line, and sinker….the humanist feminism concepts of serial “dating/monogamy” and education/jobs before marriage setting them up for failure. Yes, the “purity movement” was/is a total failure. Also, side-note, regarding the idea of “no one who is a committed Christian…..” This is a strawman. Committed Christian? As opposed to “uncommitted Christian”? This is an oxymoron.
@@D26996, unfortunately there are a lot of people who wear the name of Christ but are not truly believers in Him. Lots of spiritual deception out there.
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Good video. I would just highlight the last point. Christians really need to learn that where God, for His reasons, has chosen to remain silent then we should as well. It's ok to ask a question and to be curious about things that aren't specifically addressed in Scripture but at the end of the day the mature Christian should understand that God has good reason for not addressing those things and should focus their attention on what He has said.
The "true love waits" effort was a total failure and it failed for many reasons. The SBC, and Christians in general, think Biblical sexual abstinence is all about sexual intercourse. As one young lady said..."I've been held every way I can be held, touched every way I can be touched, kissed every way I can be kissed....but I'm still a virgin!" Is this the goal? Is this what sexual purity means? No...this is not what God means by sexual purity. The dating culture is an abysmal failure and the church needs to repent of this ridiculous pagan practice.
No one who is a committed Christian should ever think that the purity movement was only about sexual intercourse. I read a lot of stuff about it back then, being in college at the time, and I received many messages about considering every activity and not just focusing on one act. I found five rules for dating that I thought made sense, and they still do:
1. Don’t pull anything up.
2. Don’t pull anything down.
3. Don’t lie down.
4. Keep your tongue in your mouth.
5. Don’t touch anything that sticks out.
Common sense can keep young people away from immorality. The problem is that common sense is in such short supply these days, when everyone wants to push the boundaries and even remove walls for the sake of “personal autonomy,”
The goal of the purity movement was to stand athwart the hookup/breakup culture and encourage true commitment of individuals toward the purity of others as well as themselves. If you truly loved someone, you wouldn’t take physical advantage of them sexually. And the best family structure is a committed man and woman raising their mutual children.
"True love waits" was not a total failure. Not even close. The rest is true. "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", a product of the "true love waits" did a great job of exposing the "dating culture". And it took a lot of flack for it. Attempts to discredit the truths put forth in the book were magnified when the author "came out" and renounced the book.
@@Proximityillusions - Well said. I would just say by very definition Common Sense is NOT something one should rely on today.
@@Proximityillusions Thank you for the response. Words on paper does not translate to actions much less result in changed hearts. “Common sense” is subjective and not rooted in God’s Word. The purity movement is/was a failure not because of the ideas on paper. Rather, the approach, and its attempted application, was a man-made approach to change the hearts and minds of young men and women. The desired results never materialized. Any more than a Catholic ceremony with vows of celibacy changes hearts of the pagan Catholic.
The statistics speak for themselves. It’s hard to make people pure who don’t want to be pure. Metaphorically, fences/rules can be built but they will not stop the criminal. We wanted to make rules thinking it would change hearts rather than using God’s Word…not “purity rings,” “purity letters,” “purity promises,” or any other gimmick which were mere fences that did not change hearts. God’s Word should have then, and must be today, used to change hearts.
In fact, why in the world would we want to delay marriage of our young people and admonish them to “celibacy” while at the same time encouraging them into “dating” situations where they are at the same time tempted to violate those rules all while encouraging our young people to “wait” and get an education and get a job before marriage. This has been and is insanity and the results, again, speak for themselves. Ridiculous ideas like the MGTOW movement, 80%+ view porn and were then and are now having sex before marriage (to say nothing of “lighter” sex acts), high rates of divorce, 1.8 birthrate, and the general apostasy of the millennial generation (the children of the “purity movement” generation) all tell the tale. Again, this has and is happening IN the church.
The church bought…hook, line, and sinker….the humanist feminism concepts of serial “dating/monogamy” and education/jobs before marriage setting them up for failure. Yes, the “purity movement” was/is a total failure.
Also, side-note, regarding the idea of “no one who is a committed Christian…..” This is a strawman. Committed Christian? As opposed to “uncommitted Christian”? This is an oxymoron.
@@D26996, unfortunately there are a lot of people who wear the name of Christ but are not truly believers in Him. Lots of spiritual deception out there.
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