Sticks and Stones

Bullied or not ... there is a powerful message here.

Facebook's Fornification App

A new Facebook app is taking the world by storm, I couldn't make a title this trashy, but the truth is that "Bang with Friends" is one of the fastest growing apps available in 2013 as downloads have skyrocketed from 20,000 users to 700,000 in just three weeks. The app's current purpose is to allow users the discreet choice of choosing who, of their Facebook friends, they would be interested in having sex with. The individuals chosen will only know of the desired rendezvous if they also choose to add that person to their list of potential intimate partners. It has been said that finding a sexual partner is now as easy as window shopping on Pinterest. So far approximately 130,000 connections have been made. The crisis and tragedy lies in the fact that these casual and seemingly meaningless encounters carry far more lifelong impact than is ever implied or truly understood. The reality of sexual immorality is that it has devastating ramifications on our lives. It creates a brokenness in humanity, evidenced by the fact that loneliness, abandonment, and emptiness accompanies one-time sexual encounters. There are also the rampant sexually transmitted diseases and infections. Interestingly, the cure for STI's is not going to be found in medication, but in the life-long commitment of a husband with his wife. Above all of this though is the reality of the broken relationship that sexual immorality creates between us and God. A pain so deep, so visceral, that few can understand the reason they hurt so bad, which instead of leading to restoration often leads to continued cycles of brokenness. 

I Corinthians 6:18-20 says, "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."

If God had intended for humanity to reproduce with everyone and anyone, I would think he could have created us like plants ... pollinating every where we went and with everyone we crossed paths with, but he didnt.