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Pastor preaches sex that is free from sin

by Lillian Kwon, Christian Post
Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008, 8:30 (GMT)
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In this chapter, the wife dances for her husband and is "exceedingly visually generous to her husband", Driscoll explained. All the while, the husband is verbally generous as he compliments her and then "proceeds forward".

"Your first reaction: this is inappropriate," Driscoll said to thousands of congregants in Seattle and at satellite campuses.

"It's in the Bible," he stressed. "This is an example of marital freedom."

The 10-week "Peasant Princess" sermon series comes at a time when traditional marriage is being challenged in courts, Americans are daily inundated with sexual images, and more money is being spent on pornography than foreign aid.

Driscoll believes sex is the greatest threat to Christianity and wants to replace Christian porn, adultery and divorce with "hot, hetero, covenantal monogamy".

According to Driscoll, sex has three "denominations" - straight, gay and bisexual, each of which have websites, "houses of worship" (bars, clubs, strip joints), and "followers who vigorously evangelise and recruit new members".

Through the Song of Songs study, he says people can learn "how to have sex that is free - free from sin, idolatry, guilt, shame, condemnation, death, and separation from God - by having free and frequent marital intimacy." At the same time, Christians can learn "how to worship God the Creator and enjoy his creation and not worship his creation (our bodies and their pleasures) as a false god".

Driscoll hopes this sermon series will hit high on the iTunes chart and maybe even overtake Oprah and Joel Osteen.

"Our study of the Song of Songs is meant neither to kill our desires nor permit them to flow into deadly sin. Rather, this series is an attempt to cultivate our desires and channel them toward our spouse according to the wisdom God gives us in his Word," he explained.

In addition to preaching, Driscoll and his wife, Grace, are taking questions from congregants via text and e-mail immediately after each sermon - a daring session of unscripted answers that began at Mars Hill in January. With a no-holds-barred attitude, Driscoll has answered some of the more explicit sex questions on his blog.



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Added: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:35 (GMT)

Knowledge means actually. intimate relationship.(Gen.4:1,17).

Alexander, Madurai,India

Added: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 15:57 (GMT)

People are indeed perishing for lack of knowledge, but it definitely isnt because of their lack of knowledge of sex.

abe, missoula, USA

Added: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 3:25 (GMT)

I mean to say that it is nothing wrong to preach what the Bible says.

Alexander, Madurai-India

Added: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 2:20 (GMT)

God has created sex before the entrance of sin in this world.
God has said "very Good" after the creation of man & woman.
There is nothing wrong in sex.The wrong use of sex in violation of Biblical principles is sin.
Husband-wife is a beautiful & the most intimate relationship.It is compared with the Christ -Church relationship in Ephesians chapter 5.God created sex so that man & woman enjoy within the context of marriage by having companionship & fulfillment.
There is nothing wrong about teaching wrong to teach what the Bible says.People are perishing for lack of knowledge.Hosea 4:6.

Alexander, Madurai-lidia

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