Comments on: POLL: Teaching About Sex in Youth Group

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:06:22 +0000

Preaching the Gospel, with the emphasis on being centered on the person and works of Christ, pretty much solves the sex issue. The more talk about sex, and the more you prohibit it… the more you well up the desire in them to be curious by it. Romans 5, 6, & 7.
Anything outside the Gospel only treats the symptoms not the heart of the matter and that is they are a sinner in need of a savior. The doctrine is practical and the practical is doctrinal.
Grace and Peace

By: John Harney

John Harney — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:51:06 +0000

It comes up a lot in smaller settings, but direct teaching is once a year… usually during February… how stereotypical is that?

Starting this Sunday in fact… “Goin All The Way”… adapted from LifeChurch.tv

By: Bonni

Bonni — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:48:10 +0000

I find myself talking every couple of weeks or so with my girls in non-official small group settings, i.e. walking around the lake, baking cookies, driving them home from official small group. They seem more willing to engage when they don’t have to look me in the eye — in fact, they are almost exclusively the ones who bring up the topic!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:56:22 +0000

We do a dedicated series about once a year, but I put “once a month” because I try to regularly address the issue from up front in little ways so the church isn’t silent on the issue. I hate to shamelessly plug things, but I blogged a little about this thought: http://juniorhighministry.blogspot.com/2009/12/things-we-dont-talk-about.html
@Dave – totally agree about parents and have been working on creating not just programs that can equip parents, but a total culture of partnering with parents.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:45:49 +0000

@Dave great thoughts – we do need to do a better job of parent ministry – that is one of my late 2010 goals. We’re going to emphasize equipping parents a lot more in the near future. Good stuff! JG

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:44:55 +0000

@andrew We didn’t do a sex series last year – we just did the 2-weeks “kind of person I want my kid to marry” series. We always combine sexes for weekend services and separate the genders for small groups.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:47:46 +0000

I’ve been thinking through some philosophy of ministry stuff lately as far as roles goes. Not gender roles but the role of youth ministry and parents. I’ve always viewed ym as a supplement to what parents are (hopefully) doing at home. Where I’ve landed for now is that sex etc. is behavior ie dress, image, action, desire, lust… rooted in something deeper. To address action is to address the top part of the iceberg leaving the huge understand of world view, and ultimately the lordship of Christ below the surface. So my question in talking about sex is how do we equip parents to address issues like that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:17 +0000

Did you guys do 2 separate series at 2 different times last year or did you do just one series last year on sex?