What’s the point of sex?
Welcome to week 2 of our small groups. Our goal in any study is not to find the correct answers to every question but to grow in our love and devotion to God. This study is meant as a brief introduction to the topic of sex. It will not give you all the answers you might want, but hopefully it will give you an idea of the issues at stake for your own further personal reflection.
1. What Bible passages can you think of that are relevant to a discussion on sex?
2. What is your understanding of why God created sex?
3. The Bible’s stance on sex is outdated. How would you respond?
4. Why would sex between two loving consenting single adults be wrong? Where in the Bible does God forbid premarital sex?
Have a read of these verses in 1 Corinthians. (Highly recommend you read them in full on your own after)
1 Cor. 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Cor. 7:8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Cor. 7:26 I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 29 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
5. Are you surprised or confused about anything in the verses you’ve just read?
6. What would you say is the generally accepted attitude towards sex in our society today? How is biblical Christianity similar and/or different?
7. Is there such a thing as godly sex?
8. In what way does sex point us to the gospel?
Close in prayer.
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