Why Abstinence Isn’t Working In America

The call to young Christians to be abstinent until marriage is not working.

Why do I say that?

The September/October 2011 issue of Relevant Magazine, in an article entitled (Almost) Everyone’s Doing It, starts with the following revelation:

Eighty percent of young, unmarried Christians have had sex. Two-thirds have been sexually active in the past year. Even though, according to a recent Gallup poll, 76% of Evangelicals believe sex outside of marriage is morally wrong.

80% of young, unmarried Christians have had sex… Wow! 66% of them have been sexually active in the past year.  And yet three-quarters of Evangelical Christians believe this is wrong.

More evidence…  Keep reading…

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Click here to read the rest of this article. It’s a guest post I contributed to a new resource out of Asbury Theological Seminary and the United Methodist Church called Seedbed.

Here’s a little more about Seedbed: Seedbed is sowing for a great awakening through publishing resources intended to build up the Body of Christ. We are cultivating skilled practitioners and creative scholars to develop ideas and design resources delivering the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the richness of his Church into the vastness of the human race until the end of the age. To read more about Seedbed click here.