Have you heard about a pastor’s sex challenge?  Pastor Ed Young is founder of the Grapevine, Texas-based, nondenominational Fellowship Church, which draws about 20,000 people each Sunday and also has campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth and Plano, Texas. Pastor Young has challenged the married couples in his congregation to have sex seven days a week during a paticular week in which he is doing a series on the subject? 

In an interview with CBS (See the original interview here), Young describes people’s reaction to his proposed week of sex: “We’ve had a few people go, ‘Man, I wonder why you’re doing this,’ or, ‘That’s kind of odd, talking about making love in church.’ But, again, I think the church has allowed the culture to hijack sex from the church, and it’s time that we moved the bed back in church and put God back in the bed, and I think we are the real sex-perts because, after all, we’re made in God’s image and he’s the one who wants us to do it his way.”

For many years I thought it has been backwards that the world enjoys that which God has made for married couples and in particular the church while the church avoids the subject.  The church should be so enjoying all that God has given us in such a way that it makes the world envious to have what we have.  Sex is God’s idea.  He designed it for the marriage and He expressly teaches about it in the scriptures (Song of Solomon; 1 Corinthians 7:1-7) 

If it would had been taught all along in the proper context, maybe we would not have such a large problem of abusing the gift from God.  We are the body of Christ and we have the answer to life’s most complex problems.  It would be interesting to hear what this pastor has to say on the subject or as Paul Harvey might say, “the rest of the story.”

-Pastor Herb