As I imagined this conference, I also envisaged the strangeness and weirdness of it. Thank God you didn’t think it too weird to attend. But those who find it unacceptable still have a reason. And maybe you are still wondering what on earth will be said at a sex conference.
But may I point out that everyone of us is at a sex conference whether we are in this group or not. The whole world has become a big sex conference room. We have sexual information and campaigns all around us. Be it on television, on the internet or the radio, even on the signposts all about our streets, the Sex content is available in some simple or detailed form.
Our objective at this conference is to temporarily excuse ourselves into thinking from God’s word on Sex so much. So that when we walk out after this conference, we see sex differently. We don’t see sex as the rest of the world sees it. But we see it as the Creator made it to be.
But why is Sex strange subject for discussion. Perhaps it is because we aren’t directing this conference only to the married but also to the unmarried. But it doesn’t make it wrong. Because the youth are already being educated on sex. And unless the Church starts educating them early, it can be late to correct what the world has taught them if we are waiting to teach them during their marriages or at marriage counselling. The Bible commands us to train up the child the way he or she should go. That way, they do not depart from it when they grow. Now, we wouldn’t want to accept we are children. But I’m speaking this to the general Church and presbytery. And I like to assure us that we are not in a wrong place. We are not gathered here to indoctrinate with wrong doctrines and sinful beliefs. We are here to open the Bible and hear and see and read what God has said about sex.
The last time I checked, using the manufacturers manual is the safest way to guarantee ultimate satisfaction from a product. So what has God said about sex? How did He make us with regards to Sex? What works best?
And our married brothers and sisters, I promise you by the Grace of God that you will be blessed so much through this conference. I believe this with all my heart. There is a revolution. You are definitely involved.
Why is it important to discuss sex at all? Well, number one reason is that It is Important. After twelve years of pastoring and several more years in ministry, Kenneth E. Hagin of blessed memory wrote that the problems of Christian husbands and wives are usually centred around these areas; first, religion, then sex, money and then children.
Moreover, Jesus in speaking about divorce, despite God’s hatred for it, gave adultery as a valid reason for divorce. And Paul suggests that a bad sexual life can tempt couples into adultery. So this puts sex at an important practical part of marriage. A good sex life is very important in marriage. Today, I hope to come our way with Sex 101. And as you eat God’s word on sex, believe you me, you are being blessed in this respect.
If we should know about sex, why not from God? If we will marry and have sex, what stops us from knowing God’s mind on it before time. We are not in heaven, but God revealed heaven to us. You may not be married. But God will reveal marriage and sex to you in a holy manner through this conference. And I wish you a pleasurable “sex life” in advance. I pray you marry soon.
God bless you.
PDS
Written for the Sex Conference.