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Parent and Youth Retreat - "Talk about sex? With them?" by Carol Duerksen
YOUTH GROUP LESSON 47
9 Hand out the card with the I Corinthians passage on it. Read it.
I Corinthians 6:17-20, The Message
There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.
10 Close with this responsive reading:
Leader: So let THOSE AROUND YOU see God in and through your body.
Parents and youth: So let THOSE AROUND ME see God in and through my body.
Leader: So let those around you see GOD in and through your body,
Parents and youth: So let those around me see GOD in and through my body.
Leader: So let those around you see God in and through YOUR BODY.
Parents and youth: So let those around me see God in and through MY BODY.
Leader: Let it be with us according to your word.
Parents and youth: Let it be with us according to your word.

Part Two “What Was God Thinking?”:
1 Begin the session with the skit “Very Good!” Before the skit, instruct students to listen for all of the things that refer to male-female relationships and the differences between guys and gals.


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