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Sex is More Than a Muscle Spasm

03/13/2009 05:40 AM Filed in: Theology | Pastoral Stuff
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Last week I got an email from a friend of mine. He’s a wonderful guy who I’ve seen grow a lot in his faith the last couple of years.

It just so happens that he finds himself in a new location trying to make new friends. No longer surrounded by any safety net, he’s having to work out his salvation with “fear and trembling” while overcoming the adversity around him.

Lately he’s been getting hung up on the “lust” topic.

His friends want to know why lust is a bad thing; it feels natural and it “doesn’t hurt anybody.” They say “God designed us to be attracted in this way to girls,” and though my friend tries to bring the subject around to marriage, he’s struggling a bit and wants to have some clarification.

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