Saturday, March 22, 2008

Clear boundaries

All sexual intimacy outside the protective boundaries of holy matrimony is sin.

I must have repeated this statement 4-6 times to my Confirmation class of about 30 students 14 years old. I don't think many of them liked it. When they ask what is going too far, I say you shouldn't do anything with another person that you wouldn't want your wife or husband to do with another person. Some didn't like that either.

I was thinking last night that all sexual intimacy outside the protective boundaries of holy matrimony is:

physically - unhealthy
intellectually - unwise
emotionally - devastating
socially - destructive
spiritually - immoral.

I don't think they would have known what I was talking about.