God’s Design for Sexuality - Week 07

Within many of our lifetimes we have moved from a society adhering to traditional Christian values, to a post-Christian culture, and now to the beginning of the “brave new world” that Aldous Huxley predicted in his book by that name. It’s a world that Christian thinkers have been warning about for a good while. The late Christian philosopher and theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote in his seminal work, "How Should We Then Live?":

"The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture: If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals … If there is no absolute beyond man’s ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions."

Given these changes and challenges, it is imperative for Bible-believing churches to restate what the Bible teaches about homosexuality, and also consider how we will interact with an increasingly hostile society, and those close to us who are affected by this cultural drift.