Presbyterian pastor Ligon Duncan was flipping channels on his TV one day and came upon the very conservative Roman Catholic television channel \u201cThe Eternal Word Network.\u201d That\u2019s the network that has shows by super-Catholics like Mother Angelica. For this show there was a priest doing a lecture to Catholic students at a large university in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
He was addressing the issue of sexual purity, and he was talking about a young Catholic couple who came to him on one occasion. They were cohabiting together and they were engaging in immoral sexual relations. And they said to him, \u201cFather, surely there couldn\u2019t be anything wrong with something so beautiful as this. Our love for one another overflows into our physical relations with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
And he said to them, as he told the audience, \u201cOf course there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with your fornication – if you\u2019re a pagan.\u201d It was a very powerful apologetic. He said in effect, \u201cThat\u2019s how pagans act, that\u2019s not how Christians act.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s precisely what God is saying in the Bible passages on sexual conduct. Sexual purity is an issue that He\u2019s concerned about. He wants spouses to be able to trust one another implicitly.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a spiritual issue. It\u2019s not just a private, personal issue. It\u2019s an issue that affects all the people of God. God cares about our relationships, he cares about our purity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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