- Fri, Apr 16, 2010
- Sexual Purity
Randy speaks about The Purity Principle on Renewal Radio (audio)
Randy Alcorn's interview about the Purity Principle on Renewal Radio with Dr. Gene Getz, June 7-11, 2004.
Randy Alcorn's interview about the Purity Principle on Renewal Radio with Dr. Gene Getz, June 7-11, 2004.
Right now, in your moment of strength, make choices that will serve you well in your moment of weakness.
You must recognize your vulnerability and protect yourself from situations where you are tempted.
I wish we could talk face to face so you could hear my heart for you. In your letter you said, “I just don’t understand why people in the church—good, knowledgeable, intelligent, kind Christians like yourself—continue to persecute and shut out gay and lesbian people based on passages of Scripture that are very much open to an interpretation.” First, if someone is persecuting you, they are not being kind.
“How can anything so good be so bad?” If sex is as good as we portrayed it in the previous chapter, why is it that many sexual acts are condemned in Scripture? The answer is that like most good things, sex was created to exist within prescribed boundaries. As long as it stays within those boundaries, it is good. The moment it moves outside them, it becomes bad.
We live in the same house that we did when our daughters were small. Now they're grown and we have four grandsons. All those years our daughters were growing up, we never built a fence in our yard. There was no need.