The Case Against R-Rated Church

Phil Johnson over at Pyromaniacs has made many a compelling argument against the trend in some evangelical circles toward scatological language and graphic discussion of sex from the pulpit. I have posted on this trend in the past.

Johnson writes:

Today I’ll be in the studio with John MacArthur, taping an interview about the contemporary evangelical obsession with sex. “The Case Against the R-Rated Church” is the working title, but the interview is unscripted, so we’ll see where it goes.

Anyway, I was looking up facts and various news items on the subject and three things struck me.

One: This is a huge and widespread problem. The “Christian” districts of the World Wide Web are filled with places that aren’t safe for family viewing—everything from “Christian” sex shops to lurid advice columns.

Two: Modesty is all but gone from the evangelical movement. Not only have today’s evangelicals cast aside innocence as if it were something to be ashamed of; they are proud to have done so. They are keen to show a comfortable familiarity with the very things Scripture says it is shameful to speak of in public (Ephesians 5:12), and they would be embarrassed to be thought squeamish about such things.

Three: Sermons with graphic sexual themes and church-wide sex challenges are merely symptoms of a much bigger problem. In short, the church is fornicating with the world and intoxicated with the spirit of the age. Some of neo-evangelicalism’s favorite jargon—missional, contextualization, authenticity—has been tortured and misappropriated in order to justify and institutionalize gross worldliness.

Read the entire post HERE.