Episode 259: Purity & Dating with Purpose Pt. 2

Yeah, I think a couple of things.

We are talking about this understanding purity.

Number one, purity is about wholeness, not just restriction.

Kind of what we're saying right now.

Great passage, 1 Corinthians 6, verses 19-20, talks about our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and that we were bought... at a price, so we should honor God with our bodies.

And it's giving, again, such great imagery.

It's a picture of value.

Here's what it's worth.

But there's also a principle of stewardship that's attached to this as well.

That's why we're saying it's not just a list of don'ts.

It's helping your students see purity as caring for something that has such a high value, like what the Lord gave in order to get that.

So we're caring for something valuable.

We're not just avoiding punishment for breaking a rule.

Yeah, yeah, 100%.

With that in mind, we do, number two, talk about the mind, not just the body.

And the reason we're emphasizing that is we're assuming that you're talking about the body, by the way.

So while in those conversations, while you have those, don't only talk about the body, but also talk about the mind.

What we scroll, what we watch, what we consume does shape the way that we think.

And the way that we think ultimately ends up leading to what we do.

It's not just a physical...

The relationship with purity doesn't start just physically.

It starts emotionally.

And there is this emotional posture that we... we can and I think we need to teach our teenagers to be careful with.

Brene Brown, she's this leading researcher, talks all about vulnerability, has great TED Talks too, by the way.

She makes this insightful distinction.