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Sexual Integrity in Grades 6-12 - Launching October 4th

Join us for a discussion on sexual integrity, exploring our concepts of sex and how they are influenced by our identity, home, caregivers, church, and culture. Learn about the differences between men and women's sexual experiences and discover biblical teachings on sexual immorality. Get practical suggestions for maintaining sexual integrity and dealing with the influences of the internet and pornography. Don't miss this important conversation!

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Sexual Integrity in Grades 6-12 - Launching October 4th

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  1. Fridays in Room 281 @ 6:45pm 6th - 12th Grade

  2. Launching October 4thKinder – 5th Grade

  3. Sexual Integrity

  4. Genesis 5:2: He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

  5. Our concepts of sex come from several places: *Our identity We are sexual beings

  6. Our concepts of sex come from several places: *Our identity *Our home and how our caregivers talked about it

  7. Our concepts of sex come from several places: *Our identity *Our home and how our caregivers talked about it *How your church addressed it

  8. Our concepts of sex come from several places: *Our identity *Our home and how our caregivers talked about it *How your church addressed it *Culture (totally permeated)

  9. Swim suits 1910

  10. We have a sexual drive, however men and women experience differently: visual vs touch and words

  11. Men give love to get sex, women give sex to get love

  12. “Males have double the brain space and processing power devoted to sex as females.” The Female Brain, Dr. LouannBrizendine

  13. “Thoughts about sex enter a woman's brain once every couple of days but enter a man's brain about once every minute.” The Female Brain, Dr. LouannBrizendine

  14. 1Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

  15. 1Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.

  16. Inmorality= pornea

  17. Suggestions

  18. Suggestions • Do a regular heart check-up

  19. Hungry • Exhausted • Angry • Resentful • Tense

  20. Suggestions • Do a regular heart check-up • Counseling • Find an accountability partner

  21. The accountable man Tom Eisenman *Is vulnerable *Is teachable*Is honest*Is accessible*Can be trusted to hold things in confidence*Mature enough to enter fearlessly into the real life issues of his partner

  22. Suggestions *Do a regular heart check-up*Counseling*Find an accountability partner*Step Study*Use accountability software

  23. Prov. 4:23: • “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

  24. Proverbs 8:36: “But he who sins against Me injures himself”

  25. INTERNET AND PORN *Available, Anonymous & Accessible *It finds you *Pain….Guilt *Interrupts physical relationships *messes up intimacy *Causes impotency in men

  26. INTERNET AND PORN *Distorts love and intimacy *Cheapens sex *Hard to see the damage (Like anger)

  27. INTERNET AND PORN *Distorts love and intimacy *Cheapens sex *Hard to see the damage (Like anger)

  28. Hurts – Hang-ups – Habits Hurts: Cause unpleasant feels or feelings of powerless.

  29. Hurts – Hang-ups – Habits Hang-ups: In order to find relief, lust desires pleasurable relief from an inner pain, emptiness or insecurity that we were not able to cope with in any other way. At first, it did provide the relief we sought.

  30. Hurts – Hang-ups – Habits Habits: The thing we used to gain control was the thing that began to control us. It took priority over everything:

  31. 3 R’s • Recognize our hurts • Reframe our hang-ups • Replace our habits

  32. Hang-ups – when feeling powerless: Codependency = Food = Chemical = Anger = Sex =

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