God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long.<\/p>\n
Once a day. Beginning this Sunday.<\/p>\n
The call to action will headline Mr. Young’s Sunday sermon at Grapevine-based Fellowship Church. He plans to deliver his challenge while sitting on a bed.<\/p>\n
“I won’t be dressed in pajamas,” the pastor says.<\/p>\n
In these days of financial crisis, rampant divorce and debates over same-sex marriage, it’s time, he says, to turn the “whining” into “whoopee.”<\/p>\n
More fundamentally, he adds, the embracing of sex is about nurturing and strengthening marriages.<\/p>\n
“Sex is like Super Glue. It’s a spiritual thing, an emotional thing,” he says.<\/p>\n
And the marriage thing, he believes, should only involve a man and woman. God’s way, he says.<\/p>\n
Jim Dale of Coppell said he figures the pastor is trying to create more buzz for his five-church mega-ministry.<\/p>\n
“Draw ’em in, no matter what or how,” wrote the Coppell resident in a posting on dallasnews.com. “Sex? You betcha. That’ll pack the pews (or theater seats).”<\/p>\n
Mr. Dale, author of a book about individual relationships with God, said he has attended Fellowship Church a few times. And he offered some praise: “I’ve got to hand it to them, they are brilliant marketers.”<\/p>\n
Mr. Young says his challenge \u2013 the latest in a sermon series called “Leaving Lust Vegas” \u2013 isn’t about filling seats. “We’ve got more people than we can say grace over,” he says of his 20,000-worshipper Baptist ministry that video streams services from Grapevine to churches in downtown Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Miami.<\/p>\n
Marketing is indeed at play, the pastor says. “It gets people thinking on a deeper level about sex. I want people talking about it,” he says.<\/p>\n
But doing it?<\/p>\n
“God says sex should be between a married man and a woman. And do it,” he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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