Theocast
Church, Discernment, and Purity Culture
August 31, 2022
Summary
In today's episode, the guys have a conversation about a very sensitive but important topic: sexuality. Over recent years and decades, there have been various approaches to how to handle issues of sexuality in the church. Jon and Justin talk honestly about their concerns regarding crass and crude language that is used to talk about sex--and the abuses of pastoral authority that often occur (e.g., Doug Wilson and Mark Driscoll). The guys also discuss their concerns with purity culture (Joshua Harris comes up here) and the very negative ways sex is portrayed in that kind of setting. There is a better and more biblical approach.
Topics
- Sexuality and the church—a sensitive but important conversation
- Concerns about crass language and abuses of pastoral authority
- Purity culture and the negative portrayal of sex
- Toward a better and more biblical approach
Transcript
Edited machine transcript. May contain errors. Select a timestamp to watch that moment.
Hi, this is John, and today with me in Knoxville, Tennessee is Justin.
We're together and we're recording an episode on a very sensitive topic.
And so we're going to do our best.
I'm going to go ahead and say this up front for those of you that have children that might be listening.
We try our best to be very tactful and safe, but we are going to be discussing things like the purity culture, the marriage bed, and how there are certain people who have not been helpful in describing this.
And in the end, we want to take a biblical approach.
And how is it that we shepherd each other in the church and shepherd our children in our homes as it relates to things like sexuality?
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Welcome to Theocast, Encouraging Worry Pilgrims to Rest in Christ, Conversations about the Christian Life from a Reformed and Pastoral Perspective.
Your hosts today are Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.
And I'm Moffat, pastor of Grace Reform Church in Springhill, Tennessee.
But today we are not in our respective homes.
Thankfully, we've been able to, or offices, we have been able to gather that's right.
We did used to meet in our homes.
But no more.
No, but no more.
God be praised.
