From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
DALLAS — The pastor of a megachurch 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.
Although it may be "one of the greatest things you can do for your kids", one hopes he will not "give it a try" on the bed in front of the church.
Actually, since there's only a limited amount of sex available, he's probably right to "reclaim sex for married couples" before the supply runs out.
Are they going to have sex on the bed in front of the church too? Oh my!
ReplyDeleteIf I were his wife, he wouldn't be getting any...
ReplyDeleteDoxy, perfect.
ReplyDeleteI mean...REALLY!!! Would you want everyone in your megachurch looking at you and giggling? Elbowing you and asking "How was it?"
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking when pastors talk about sex from the pulpit, they need to stay in the realm of the abstract.
That's what's called sexing up the church services.
ReplyDeleteYes, I can hear the comments. "Was it good for you?" "Oh, I'm exhausted!"
So is it a contest or something? And is it once every day for seven days or all day for seven days?
ReplyDeleteAnd is sex a nurturing, spiritual act if one HAS to do it for seven days?
I gotsa lotsa kweshins wut gotta be anserd afore I try this at St. Christopher's.
OMG! I know exactly where that church is...right by DFW airport. It's kind of an airport of a church, in my estimation.
ReplyDelete(Need I say...I don't go there! Just get caught in their traffic frequently.)
There's probably an element in his congregation that attends because watching and listening to him gets them hot and bothered. My guess is that he's playing to the gallery - throwing them some meat - red or otherwise - and getting their imaginations running wild.
ReplyDeleteThere's a Christian sex blogger somewhere, I can't remember her name right now, who is documenting she and her husband's effort to have sex every day for a year or something.
ReplyDeleteThis is a trend going around the Christian megachurch world right now--there's quite a few pastors issuing these 30-day challenges:
Christian Nookie
I love your last sentence. Spot on.
ReplyDeleteI swear, these fundies are more obsessed with sex than your average non-religious teenager. Think about something else for once, people.
Padre, I heard it through the grapevine that your bishop is coming for a visit soon. Perhaps, you might consider putting implementation of this idea on hold. Oh, and consult with the Lovely Mona first. You're sometimes a headstrong boy.
ReplyDeleteMary Beth, an airport of a church. Hmmm. Another "new new thing".
There's naughty Alf putting in his 2 cents.
Bub, I see that the Florida pastor at your link upped the ante to 30 days. Mike Bauman at the same link asks, "But, is there a place for sex in church?" Oh please let the answer be a firm, "No!"
Why am I so late to know this kind of stuff? And as Padre says, being under obligation to do "it" could actually take some of the fun out of "it".
I saw this in the Houston Chronicle this morning. My first thought - at my aging congregation, this would be a quick way to wind up doing lots of hospital visits. I have, however, noticed a number of the non-denom/evangelical churches focusing a lot of pulpit time on issues around sex. Sex on television just for the sake of ratings = the downfall of our social morality; sex from the pulpit just for the sake of good attendance numbers = creative evangelism. The logic is dizzying.
ReplyDeletePastor David, what other logical conclusion can we come to except that they're either obsessed with sex or that they're obsessed with increasing attendance any way they can? How's that for playing into the culture?
ReplyDeleteIf I was his wife, he wouldn't even get a handshake from me.
ReplyDeleteIf I was his wife, I'd kick him in the holy of holies.
ReplyDeleteWow! Y'all are some mean people. I should have known better than to let you loose at poor Pastor Young.
ReplyDeleteLOL.
ReplyDeleteThere once was a local bishop who was mystified at the fact that every time he made his yearly visit to the local parish there were quite a number of infants to be baptized. One year the bishop could take it no more and asked the local pastor how it was that with every yearly visit there were a number of infants to be baptized. The local pastor replied, "Oh it's very simple, bishop. Every year, about ten months before your annual visit, I announce 'parenting Sunday'." (True story.)
As for the megachurch problem, I hope he also distributes condoms. I really do.
As for the megachurch problem, I hope he also distributes condoms. I really do.
ReplyDeleteScott, I really do, too.
“God says sex should be between a married man and a woman,” Young said.
ReplyDeleteSince I'm a woman, and since "pastor" young likely won't be getting any from his woman, I volunteer to go to Dallas and have sex with him on the bed outside the church. That way, as a married man, he will be having sex with a woman, per the instructions.
I mean, do these fundy assholes even think about what they are saying? What a bunch of sexed-up republicans. This is wrong and stupid on so many levels that I can't even begin to deconstruct it.
Thank you for keeping us informed Grandmère Mimi. I am willing to go to Dallas to make a point of it if necessary.
Lindy, I can see it already. The picture is planted in my imagination. Grit your teeth an go, girl!
ReplyDeleteYou know, sometimes folks speak truth without meaning to.
I think Lindy's right -- I'm a woman, and there's lots more innaresting-looking married men my age around than single ones. Why is that? I mean, there's lots of separated and divorced women around.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking it would be wrong of me to do anything with or about one or two of those married men, but Pastor Young says it's all right. Lindy can still have him; I just got back from Texas. I'll just get one here.
Some seriously flawed thinking here...
ReplyDeleteBut isn't it always?
Lindy, I've heard of "taking one for the team," but I really think your offer is above and beyond the call of duty...
ReplyDeleteAt least give us the details if you move forward, Lindy. No kissing and not telling with this one.
ReplyDelete"Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages, he 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."
ReplyDeleteWell, you know ? I can't find a lot to argue about in that. Yeah, his manner of going about making the point is, well...poor, to say the least ;) But I can't completely fault the man. I got more of a laugh out of the story than anything.
/me runs off & hides before he gets his head bitten off :D
David, wait! Before you run off, I want to respond. Do you think I didn't laugh?
ReplyDeleteSure. Good sex for mommy and daddy does, in the end, probably benefit the whole family. But compulsory sex at the command of the preacher? Um, no.
That's one way to grow your church.
ReplyDelete"I hope he also distributes condoms. I really do."
Of course not. It's all about making more good little Evangelicals.
And keeping the womenfolk properly barefoot and pregnant, lest they get uppity.
What a bunch of sexed-up republicans
ReplyDeleteNow that is truly scary!
But compulsory sex at the command of the preacher? Um, no.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Like I said, his way of going about trying to make his point was poor ;)
Wilfried, DP, have you heard of the Quiverfulls? Their website states:
ReplyDeleteDedicated to providing encouragement and practical help to those who are striving to raise a large and growing, godly family in today's world!
Now that's scary.
"Scary." So is the metaphor of quivers and arrows. Do these folks have any idea?
ReplyDeleteLapin, it's in the Bible. Besides, they're not into metaphors, just into making babies.
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