Sexual Fiction Replies

Letters in reply to Tim’s Sexual Fiction piece.

The piece titled “Sexual Fiction” was well-written and insightful. Thanks. I have often felt great frustration with the Christian subculture over this very issue. it has only increased over the years. I remember the first time I heard “Love Cocoon,” it was in a club in Philadelphia when VOL played long before the release of Slow Dark Train. I was, at first, surprised to hear him singing such a song because I had been conditioned by the subculture, but then I really thought a lot about it and it was growth experience for me.

I think there is a double standard on the issue in many ways with this. While Slow Dark Train was banned, Charlie Peacock’s CD Love Life was not, even though it included a song called “Kiss Me Like A Woman.” The song is great, less explicit than VOL’s, but still addressing the issue of monogamy and the goodness of God’s creation.

But overall, the church has a poor record on sex. Thanks again, I am going to post a link to the article at my Blog threshingfloor.blogspot.com.

– James Cordrey

If people read your article, they get it, and it speaks to the very thing we try to hide from. I was really struck with the line, “…After all, what’s wrong with second best?” That is such a prevailing thought in the Bible Belt South. I despise it with a passion. Because sex and sexuality is not the problem. It is the mindset and the heart attitude that doesn’t love God with everything and, because of it, won’t love themselves enough to want what God wants for them.

We hide behind superficial platitudes and don’t really get to the heart of the matter. How can we go to war against the mindset that our churches have helped us develop? Why is a simple kiss or speaking of sex or talking of your love for your spouse or showing the consequences of stepping outside of God’s boundaries in life so threatening? Because we don’t like those consequences, we don’t like the correct comparison to what we are doing. We would rather not know and have others not know that our life is not what God wants it to be. We have hidden the most beautiful courtship, marriage, romance and sex life in the middle of the old testament and we are afraid to embrace it. We have taken the awful fall of a Godly man and made it just David and Bathsheba. How was David spoken of before He fell? Chs. 9 and 10 speak of his outreach of love to others because of God. Then in 11, he falls… what does that say about us? When we don’t even give half of ourselves to others for God, why then do we think that we will not be like him… or worse? He repented. Sometimes, we don’t. I hope that when others read this article, they choose to consider their ways, the think on them. I hope they give of themselves honestly to others before God. I hope they cherish their relationships and I hope they are not afraid of waiting for God’s best… giving up 2nd best for absolute best.

– Angel

Related Links:
  ”Sexual Fiction,” by Tim Eaton