I'm trying to increase the reading circulation of our blog by talking about sex! Well, sort of....
We get an excellent magazine called Critique, a publication of Ransom Fellowship. It always has thought-provoking articles and there was one called "X-Rated Evangelism" by Michael Metzger, which caught my eye (it was the evangelism word which drew me in, of course....)
He makes a few cool statements, which I thought I'd share:
"The best sex is the fruit of a marriage, not the focus."
He then draws this thought out to give an analogy to why we're on earth as believing human beings:
"Human flourishing is our focus, not sharing our faith. Just look at how Christ shared the gospel with a woman at a well." (John 4)
So his thesis seems to be - aim at demonstrating our worship of God in all we do and are, and infectious evangelism may well result!
Or to put it in John Piper's terminology - we can't commend to others what we do not cherish...
So, as sex fits into the bigger picture of marriage as we focus on love and sacrificial commitment, so evangelism flows out of "reframing it inside a larger story" (Metzger)....
So, anyway, if any of this has intrigued you at all as it did me (who gets sweaty palms at the thought of evangelism but silly boyish grins at the mention of sex), then leave a comment or read the whole article in context!
http://www.doggieheadtilt.com/x-rated-evangelism/#more-50
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