Whatever else one might say about Dubai, they sure have pretty camels...
Posted on 11/12/2008 3:33:31 PM PST by llevrok
DALLAS (AP) - The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days _ and he plans to practice what he preaches.
"We're going to give it a try," said the Rev. Ed Young, who has four children with his wife of 26 years.
Young, 47, said he believes society promotes promiscuity and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples. Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages, he said.
"God says sex should be between a married man and a woman," Young said. "I think it's one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage, so goes the family."
Young said he will deliver his seven-day sex challenge while sitting on a bed in front of his Dallas-area church campus.
He is founder of the nondenominational Fellowship Church, which draws about 20,000 people each Sunday and also has campuses in Fort Worth, Plano and Miami.
Earlier this year, a southwest Florida pastor, perhaps having more faith in his congregants' stamina, issued a 30-day sex challenge.
“Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues”.
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Do you know what the best method of birth control is, after the age of forty?
Nudity!
(rimshot)
As if!!!!
Boy, would this be a non-starter in my house.
“Headache, or not, the Reverend said we should!”
Is that not two words?
FR is so depressing sometimes...
Ive forgotten how to start
Hmmm... we’ve done this before, and it’s fun, but by the seventh day, you don’t mind a break the next day. :) (That is - for folks who are older like us. :) )
If he didn’t insist sex be with the spouse, this might be workable.
He is absolutely right! There is a connection that cannot be denied, which is why so many girls and boys feel empty after promiscuous sex.
My husband and I were having trouble a year or so ago and because of the underlying anger, sex life dwindled. (this is kind of embarassing, but I want to share because someone else might be going through it). I realized that the longer we went without touching and physically connecting, the further adrift we became with one another. Even a mother is touching with her child (you know what I mean, in a loving way, not sexual). A child not hugged will not thrive. The study by the king that ordered orphans to be fed, but not spoken to or touched in anyway that wasn’t physically necessary to their survival and the death rate was astounding.
Anyway, Dr. Young was so helpful in his Kid CEO sermon and other family sermons to us, we decided to take his advice and pay sole attention to each other for a week. We decided to do the 7 day sex (not that he had recommended at this point, but we gathered that is what he meant and he has a WONDERFUL guiding point on how to focus on your family and God’s plan on the priority of family members) and within a week we were talking at dinner again. We were kissing goodbye in the morning.
Things are not perfect because we are not perfect. But fearing my marraige falling apart has gone. I will never let anger get in the way of marital sex again. And ladies, I don’t think I am the only one who has begrudged a man this when angry with him. And even a few men has withheld, I’m sure.
If you aren’t familiar with Ed Young, you really should get some of his stuff. He is a genius as far as I’m concerned in how to make God and your family work seamlessly. And he’s really funny while doing it!
The challenge is to married couples, but I see nothing that says the sex should be with your spouse.
...taking time out for meals, of course...
“”I’ve only got ONE word to say about the odds of this happening at my house, regardless of how many pastors issue this challenges to us married folks:
As if!!!!””
I think that’s two words!
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