This is an excerpt from Robb’s fourth sermon in the Turned On series. It actually was a question and answer time led by Robb and Vanessa. If you would like the text of the entire sermon, email vintagefellowship@gmail.com to request it.

Today is a time for questions and answers. So let me start off by asking you a question – Why do you think about sex the way you think about sex? Or, where and how were your ideas about sex formed? Our culture inundates us with ideas about sex, and many of us take our cues about how to think about sex from our culture. Some of us grew up in homes and churches that gave us certain ideas about sex. Different experiences and influences in our lives can form our presuppositions and beliefs about sex – sometimes without us even knowing it.

This month, my goal has been to give you a new way to think about sex, to give you new categories to understand things, new file folders in which you can put your experiences. We’ve had some big ideas:

- God designed us as sexual beings with a deep longing for connection.

- Our spirituality and sexuality are intimately intertwined.

- God designed sex as a means for a husband and a wife within the covenant of marriage to connect spiritually, emotionally, and physically.

- We are not animals or angels – we are human beings.

- We can discipline our desires to live within the parameters of God’s design.

- Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it is good.

- God and the culture are offering us the same thing – beauty and good sex. The choice we all have to make is whom we believe about how to get it.