Sermon Illustrations
Christians Associate Sex with Guilt
In his book Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best tells the true story of a young man who became heavily involved in a satanic cult that developed an elaborate liturgy focusing on the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The young man later became a Christian and started attending worship services. Everything went well until the church organist belted out a piece composed by Bach. The young believer was overcome by fear and fled the sanctuary.
Best writes that Bach's work "represents some of the noblest music for Christian worship. To this young man, however, it…epitomized all that was evil, horrible, and anti-Christian."
Sex is that way for some Christians. Past associations and guilty feelings have created severe spiritual roadblocks. Christians try hard not to believe that sex is inherently evil, but because of previous experiences, for many it certainly feels evil.