February 05, 2009

Intro to Dating and Relationships with PD2

We were at the HUB for youth group. Pastor Deb (aka PD2) gave the lesson. Her youth group tends to be more activity based, so for the entire hour, we were playing a quiz style game while she gave the lesson on sexual purity. This was our introduction to our dating and relationship lessons for the next couple of months.

PD2 separated us all into three teams, Faith Alive youth group being on one team and most of her youth group split into two teams. She would get us to do a Bible drill style game and whoever read the verse first gets a question to answer. If they don't answer correctly, she moves on to the other teams. In the end we placed second after nearly an hour of playing. During that time, we went through several key principles:

Sex should be reserved for marriage.
Don't focus on the physical in the dating relationship.
Girls should wear modest clothing.
Guys should control themselves and be careful at what they look at.
Don't even kiss or make out because it will cause you to sin in one way or another.
Honor God by respecting the opposite sex.
Whoever you date could possibly be another's spouse in the future.
When you're tempted with sexual sin, FLEE!
Take a stand for sexual purity in this sex-obsessed world.

Near the end, PD2 handed out a box of chocolates for us to eat. A few of the pieces were bitten into. Then we checked the second layer and they too had pieces bitten into. By then, I realized it was a metaphor. She used the half eaten chocolate pieces as an illustration of what it's like when someone already has had sex before marriage. It was hard to think about eating the chocolate when someone else has eaten it already.

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