Sex is profoundly deep and a component part of our personhood. Companies today spent billions of dollars every year on advertisements with beautiful people because they know sex sells.
In Greek mythology, the face of Helen was said to have launched a thousand ships after Paris drew her away. The beautiful woman possesses a kind of power. If you’ve been in a sexual relationship that’s now broken, you know the hurt of that tear. It makes people do all sorts of crazy things, or devote massive amounts of time courting it. In the book of the Bible called the Song of Songs, there’s a line that says, “Many rivers cannot wash away love.” Sex is powerful. And the intensity involves the physical, the emotional, the spiritual, even your sense of identity. Let me start with four existential observations about sex: Even more, you just might catch a glimpse of the beauty and glory of the Christian vision of sex, as well as something central to Christianity itself. Maybe you’ll understand why Christians believe the boundaries are where they are. And I think it’s worth stopping and considering the heart of the matter. Yet I became a Christian in my mid-twenties. Consider me a bona fide fundamentalist if you like. Yet my purpose is not to discuss the boundaries, but what’s inside the boundaries. These boundaries come to mind because they are increasingly out of sync with our culture and sometimes our desires. Obviously the first thing many people might think of when it comes to a Christian view of sex are the boundaries or rules: sex is reserved exclusively for marriage marriage is for a man and a woman and so forth. My goal here is to consider the meaning of sex from a Christian perspective, a perspective that has historically united Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. The following article is an adapted version of an evangelistic talk given at a Campus Outreach event given at Georgetown University.
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