You couldn't make it up dept no.87: the sermon will not be televised

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From www.floridatoday.com:
A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled "Great Sex for You."

Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The three-week program kicked off inside the school auditorium. Pastor Bruce Cadle had said the Christian church has been "shamefully silent" on the taboo topic.

Mark Langdorf, the director of risk management, says the mailers generated complaints, were not appropriate for elementary school children and shouldn't be used to advertise the sermon in the school.

Langdorf says the church's lease contract is under review.

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[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

On a whim, I dug up the actual posting from their web site about their sermon lecture series:

Great Sex for You

Is your sex life a bore? A chore? Feeling like you want more? Is sex supposed to leave you feeling guilty? Frustrated? Insecure? Empty? It’s supposed to be fun, right? So why does it seem like everyone else is having all the fun? Why are men and women’s desires so different? So incompatible?

Discover answers to all these questions and more at Great Sex For You, a new teaching series at New Hope Church beginning this Sunday at 11am. You’ll learn how to have the Great Sex that God created you to enjoy! You’ll discover how to find the right partner, how to affair proof your marriage, how to fan the flames of romance, and how to ensure that your marriage and love life gets better year after year. Don’t miss this life-changing message!

Every Week at New Hope:

• Come early and enjoy FREE Krispy Kreme Donuts and FREE Starbucks coffee!
• We dress casually, so come as you are.

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[jfacemyer.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's amazing what selfishness will do to a person.

Really, if you're just trying to get pleasure out of sex, you'll never be satisfied. A healthy sex life is part of a balanced (and much, much broader) rest-of-life. And it is only "satisfied" when it's content with helping the other person to be happy.

That's why you're not happy with your sex, people.

Of course, along with that (and more importantly), a loss of the sense of the sacred in a sexual relationship has the same effect as it does on a spiritual relationship. If a family (which has as its core a man and woman who are united before God) does not have sacred boundaries, then anything goes and nothing brings happiness. It's really the same problem as the protestant problem.

And, like the myriad split of protestant churches, we'll continue to have myriad fracturing of "intimate" relationships as long as we're only looking for our own satisfaction and not recognising and protecting the sacredness of our relationships.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that I'm more creeped out by the fact that they so prominently mention the brand of the donuts and coffee? I feel like this says something about our soulless consumer culture and how far it permeates, when religious groups are advertising brand name snacks to pack butts into seats.