ECYC 2013: Something Better

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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

Christian Purity

Krystal Williams

Experiencing Biblical Purity: Practical Tips Regarding Sexuality

Defining Biblical Purity: God’s Better Plan

Daniel Cho

Manhood and Womanhood

Taking a little bit of an extra couple of minutes to get our minds refocused after I know you've been through 2 sessions.

So hopefully you've been blessed in the things that you have been able to obtain so far this morning.

You guys been enjoying it the seminar so far?

As you know, the seminar is called Christian Purity.

This first session is entitled Defining Biblical Purity.

What is God's better plan for my sexuality?

What is God's better plan for Christian purity in contrast to what the world would offer us, right?

This whole session is basically just that, a contrast between what the world offers and what God offers as a replacement as his something better.

So we're gonna go right into it because I know that we're a little bit a little bit over time from the last session so we'll get started right away.

It's probably going to be a lot of information and right off the bat I want to say that I wish this seminar could almost be 5 sessions long because there's so many things involved in the idea of Christian purity.

There are so many different details and so many different aspects and perspectives in the idea of Christian purity and sexuality and and so many different things that play into it.

So we'll try to hit on a few big things in this seminar and hopefully we'll gain a blessing and something we can apply to our personal lives.

So before we start, I ask that you just bow your heads and we will begin with a word of prayer.

God in heaven, Lord, we are thankful that you have a better plan.

We're thankful that you designed us to be relational beings and you have a plan for our relationships and for our sexuality.

God, I pray that as we look into your word today, I pray that as we look into the ideas regarding Christian purity, that you will guide our minds, that you will help us to see the higher standard that you have for us.

Not 1 where you're taking something from us, but Lord, something where you're putting something even better in its place.

Taylor, make this message to apply to whoever may be here in whatever background they may have come from.

All right, I am a new teacher, so I'm going to start off my seminar with a true and false question, okay?

True or false, we live in a world and society where There is an enormous craze for sexual pleasure.

We live in a world and society where we are surrounded by sexuality.

Oh, that 1 wasn't a true and false, so that's good.

Sensuality and immorality are around us in every kind of a fashion.

Whether it's driving down the road in your car and you see the billboards.

Or maybe it's passing the magazine rack as you buy your groceries.

Or maybe it's on the TV or the internet or in a newspaper as you're simply reading the news.

We're in a sex saturated society and that's a true statement.

All around us we find sex being a prevalent theme everywhere.

Yesteryear, if we were to go back just a few decades into our grandparents time or our great-grandparents time, the early 20th century, we would have found that divorce was hard to get.

We would have found that pornography was illegal.

We would have found that abortion was illegal, expensive and dangerous, right?

We would have found that there was a strong social discouragement for having babies outside of marriage.

There was a strong social discouragement for any type of premarital sexual activity, right?

If we go back just a few decades, we can see that there was a frown upon all of those things.

But we fast forward to today's time, fast forward to today's generation, just a couple of generations really later, and we find that today fornication is rampant.

We find that adultery and marital unfaithfulness is common and excused.

That was unheard of in our grandparents' day.

We find that pornography use and addiction is Absolutely, the statistics are absolutely just through the roof where before it was illegal right here Just a few statistics to to get our minds Going It says over half of all the time spent on the internet, now you know how much time you spend there, and for whatever reasons you may do so, but over half the time spent on the internet is related to sexual activity.

Each day, 30 million people log on to pornographic websites.

Each day 2.5 billion emails are pornographic in nature.

Sex is the number 1 topic researched on the internet.

No, it's not the disease you need for your research paper at school.

The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography.

The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography?

Wow, you guys are even lower than I would have guessed myself.

Do you guys mind if I ask how old you guys are?

Like just putting it in perspective, right?

The largest consumer age group of internet pornography is what age group?

12 to 17 is the highest age group that is involved in internet pornography.

We live in a world that's gone mad over sexual pleasure.

Actually, I'm going to go back on this 1 here first.

So age 12 to 17, we live in a society that sensuality is affecting our adults, it's affecting our youth, and it's affecting our children.

And we as Christians find ourselves in the midst of such a society.

But we would be naive to think that these types of things do not affect Christian homes.

In fact, 1 of the statistics that I researched said that 47% of Christian homes said that pornography was a major problem in their home.

47% and that's only the ones that admitted it, right?

So this is a problem not only in society, not only in the world around us, but it's 1 that's very much affecting us and our churches.

1 that's very much affecting real people, and it's a real issue that needs to be addressed.

Fornication, adultery, pornography, all of these different things, homosexuality is on the rise, right?

It continues to broaden in our society and unfortunately even becoming accepted in some of our churches.

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