Sex, Love and Relationship seminar

Posted by Johan under hillsong, teaching

“More of bed into church and
more of church into bed”

Ed & Lisa Young from US visited Hillsong this week. They teached at the S-L-R seminar and preached throughout the services during the weekend.

The seminar was good - perhaps  light weight but still with lot’s of insights and important truth.

One thing Ed talked about was the importance of continuing to date you partner also after getting married with him/her, and especially when having kids. He said that the best gift you can give your children is a healthy marriage during their upbringing - setting a great example for them to follow.

He tought that the “education” for the children to learn what a healthy marriage looks like actully starts at a very young age, when mum and dad goes on a date - on their own. The biggest fear of a child is separation from his/her parents. But when going on a date and yes - leaving the child with a baby sitter, telling “mummy will come back”, and the child learning that mum and dad always do come back when they go on a date for them selves - THAT teaches the child the importance of nurturing the relationship of husband and wife, and is the beginning of understanding how to build a healthy marriage.

Ed and Lisa also taught on subjects like

- Defective dating

- How to commit adultery (what things to avoid, in other words)

- The ten commandments of purity -a great tool to protect your marriage.

Ed and Lisa had a great way of teaching on a message often not even mentioned in churches and christian gatherings.

The porn star in church…

On Sunday Ed preached at Hills, and told about a Hollywood producer (for a major TV show in US) having seen him in TV teaching in a bed about sex. The producer had to watch the teaching to its end, and contacted Ed, asking him if he would want to do a talk show together with a porn star discussion their different points of view on sex. They would do the filming at his church. Having consulted his wife and some other people he actually agreed - for one reason, to share the gospel to this young woman. He went on telling how this woman arrived with her boyfriend/manager/former porn star to church (not during a service though). The producer started of with one single question, and they discussed sex, pornography, marriage, Jesus, the gospel, the love of God, for 2 - 3 hours. His very first mentioning early on in the discussion of the love that God has for this woman, and him telling her that nothing she had done, or could do, would make God love her any less or any more, gave tears in her eyes. Putting a long story short, having went through a long discussion, she left saying to his boy friend: “What if he (Ed) is right about all this…”

The show will be on TV in November. Some anonymouse people made a guess that it could be Oprah… who knows.

The whole initiative of the S-L-R seminar is great. The foundation of society is a healthy family - and the foundation of a healthy family is a healthy marriage. And a healthy marriage starts with great role models starting from child hood, and a healthy atmosphere where all related issues can be discussed.