It's About Time

The benefits of a healthy sex life are by now well known facts. Sex is a great stress reliever, keeps your immune system strong and aides in sleep among other things. But for as long as the church has had a soapbox to preach upon it has been preaching on the evils of sex and the need to avoid it (in any capacity- unless you were concieve a child while married) at all costs for the purity of your soul. So it is extremely relieving to see that a church, in Alabama of all places, is trying to distance itself from this tradition.

Now I do completely understand why the church preaches against lust and named it one of the seven deadly sins. I also understand why God's Law included the commandment, 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife'. Nor am I telling the church to rethink its stance on what types of sex are not sinful in God's eyes. Homosexual intercourse will always be wrong before the church, as will premarital and that is fine! The church can and should define good and bad sex but once defined instead of harping on the negatives as the church so often does, why not celebrate the positives? The reluctancy to celebrate the gift God bestowed upon man while trying to procreate ought to be celebrated!

So I am glad Pastor Jerry Lawson of Day Star Church has gone public with this message. Now I know the billboards are a publicity stunt to get Mr. Lawson's church some publicity but that does not change the fact that the message is a good one, that needs to be pounded into the heads of Christians who do not hear enough about good sex. So thank you Jerry Lawson, it's about time someone took drastic measures to get the word out.