Posted on 09/27/2011 7:15:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A young Christian at an purity rally spreads the word.
True love doesn’t wait after all.
That’s the implication in the upcoming October issue of an evangelical magazine that claims that young, unmarried Christians are having premarital sex almost as much as their non-Christian peers.
The article in Relevant magazine, entitled “(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It,” cited several studies examining the sexual activity of single Christians. One of the biggest surprises was a December 2009 study, conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which included information on sexual activity.
While the study’s primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.
The article highlights what challenges abstinence movements face. Movements such as “True Love Waits,” encourage teens to wear purity rings, sign virginity pledges and pledge chastity during public ceremonies.
Yet many of these Christian youths eventually abandon their purity pledges, Relevant’s Tyler Charles concludes in the article. Tyler talked to people like “Maria,” an evangelical woman who said she wanted to wait until marriage to have sex.
But she said she started having sex with her college boyfriend when she turned 20 because nearly everyone, even most of her Christian friends, were having sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Because they’re not really Christians?
God bless you and your family. You are truly salt that has not lost its savor in our society.
I think that there are a bunch of kids who become Christians early, and at some point they question and rebel from God and Christianity. They might not do it overtly, but in little ways like sex, drinking, etc.
I think I did that when I went to college. As I grew up, I understood more, and got much stronger in my faith. Plus, I had events in my life that tested my faith. The biggest was when my twin babies almost died. I think God got me through that, and I have been much stronger in my faith since then.
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