A Week of Sex

Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Church, has found the key to healthy marriages. He has issued a challenge to the married couples in the church to have sex seven days in a row beginning next Sunday. He wants to bring the bed into the church. All this time I thought it was preaching the Word that brought results. I thought it was the power of the blood of Jesus to set people free and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit to bring restoration. Now I find out that it is as simple as having sex with your spouse. Ignoring the obvious ridiculousness of this, it reveals a much more serious problem than just being silly. It removes the idea that God is Sovereign and it is He who works to transform us day by day into His image. It is not the physical act of man; it is the Sovereign work of a loving God that cleanses and make holy. Young's suggestion is another step down the path in the exaltation of man and the minimizing of God. We would all do well to read some of Jonathan Edward's works on the freedom of the will or Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will to learn more about who is doing the work of righteousness in us. Below is a video of an interview he gave on his week of sex.