[ReformationFan]

!Viva el counter-revolution!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Someone who is seriously in touch with the love of God (be that evangelical or other flavor of Christian) is probably also going to appreciate the meaning of marital love. This is the thing that the Lord is keeping special and that is why “fooling around” is considered to be a low thing.

It takes love, however, to teach love. A distant, bossy “God” is not going to get anything but grudging cooperation at best when it comes to sexual purity.

[informavoracious]

In the world, not of it.

[GarySpFc]

Ping

[Politicalkiddo]

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15

That’s what it boils down to. God’s words and standards will never change. If you’re not okay with that, then you love the world and not God.

[GeronL]

The “stalled church growth” is mostly acute in the LIBERAL denominations

[Objective Scrutator]

Why isn't the Catholic Church excommunicating members who espouse deviant practices? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised when you consider all the Leftist idiocy it endorses (anti-death penalty, pro-New Deal, anti-Iraq War) and that its members have traditionally voted Democrat (although they have gotten better in this regard), but the number of politicians who can get away with calling themselves Catholic while supporting the murder of the unborn is rather telling. Thanks, Vatican II!

Mainline Protestants were always made up of Cafeteria Christians, so no explanation is needed for them. They seem to find environmentalism, homosexuality, and abortion make excellent fashion statements.

Good on Evangelicals for rejecting liberal idiocy which goes against the fundamental tenants of being a Christian. Good on Evangelicals for being the most likely to reject Democrat nonsense. Good on Evangelicals for having the Protestant Work Ethic which created man's greatest creation, capitalism.

[boatbums]

Moreover, sexuality isn’t ancillary to Christianity, in the way some other cultural or political issues are. Marriage and sex point, the Bible says, to a picture of the gospel itself, the union of Christ and his church. This is why the Bible spends so much time, as some critics would put it, “obsessed” with sex. That’s why, historically, churches that liberalize on sex tend to liberalize themselves right out of Christianity itself. The culture is changing, to be sure. The Sexual Revolution marches on, but it doesn’t move forward without dissent. On any given Sunday morning, in your community, young Evangelicals are telling America that a sexual counter-revolution is ready to be born, again.

Encouraging news and not unexpected. Those who are straight on the Gospel and who have a genuine born again relationship with Almighty God will ALWAYS lean towards His will in ALL areas of their lives. It is what happens when the Holy Spirit indwells the believer.

[Unam Sanctam]

Good news if true. I hope the Evangelicals won’t start going wobbly on issues of sexual morality.

[wbarmy]

I slightly disagree with the point on divorce. There have been several studies which show the divorce rate amongst Christians is not as bad as the media likes to parrot. When the numbers look at nominal versus church going Christians, the divorce rate is significantly lower.

There was a huge study done approximately twenty years ago by BJU and PCC, which showed that a male or female, married within the church, and faithful to church, can look forward to average marriage survivability rates in the 90 percentile.