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Ed Young, Jr.  Feedback:  7 Days of Sex

Orginally published on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM
by Todd Rhoades


Ed Young, Jr. has gotten a lot of press coverage and feedback over this "Seven Days of Sex" message that he brought at Fellowship Church Dallas recently. Some of the feedback has been good; other feedback, not so generous.

Here's an interview Ed did with Julie Chen at CBS. Somehow they qualified this story as a 'Healthwatch' story:



Ingrid, over at Slice of Laodicea, said that watching Ed Young, Jr. 'lounging on a bed' caused her 'gag reflex' to kick in.

See here. When Ed claims that he is simply talking about a topic the church has been silent on, Ingrid remarks: “Really, Ed? You mean no pastors have ever preached on Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery? Do you really believe that no Christian pastor has ever provided the whole counsel of God on the need for purity and respect for sexuality because God commands it in His Word? You’re the only one who has broken this terrible taboo in 2000 years?” In her opinion, Young made a ‘fool out of himself’ by ‘erecting billboards with naked feet sticking out of the sheets, passing out cards with tips to jazz up your sex life, dragging beds onto the “stage” and lounging around in the most embarrassing manner imaginable.’

I don’t imagine she liked his analogy that ‘Sex is like superglue’ either.

Not to be outdone, a woman has just finished a book about the benefits of offering herself to her husband sexually for not seven days, but a whole year!  (That’s right, folks, 365 days!) You can read more about this book here.

Not to be outdone… I had to add two more light-hearted posts to the internet world about the series:

Doug Heffernin evidently attended Fellowship Dallas yesterday and put the sermon into practice…

and

Ed Young Announces New Message Series to Follow “Seven Days of Sex”

The Dallas CBS affiliate did a follow-up story yesterday about how couples felt after the experience:

For the Waddell’s the challenge meant more than connecting physically, it meant connecting emotionally as well.  The couple says they have already hit some hard times in their seven months of marriage.  Cody says it mean they had to “really focus on the other person’s needs other than you own. That’s what we’re called to do in marriage. It was a great opportunity to do that.” Amy adds that they may keep going.  “We don’t want to stop at the seven days.  We’ve seen what it’s done for us with the intimacy; we’ll continue to do that”

You can watch their follow up report here...


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  There are 32 Comments:

  • Posted by
    Monday, November 24, 2008 at 8:42 PM

    Somewhere in Seattle, Mark Driscoll is wondering what the big deal is…

  • Posted by Gene
    Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:17 AM

    A few years ago I saw where about half of Fellowship Church’s attendance was single. So Ed basically left half of his church out with this bold experiment. Come on, let’s face it. It’s a publicity stunt.

    Is sex good? No doubt about it. Did God intend for us to challenge each other to perform an intimate and deeply personal act every day to make a point? I don’t think so.

  • Posted by
    Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 7:19 AM

    I loved the “whole nuther level” drop.  Also, how about those catchphrases..."whining to whoopee;” “sexperiment.” What a cool thing.  And all those dudes texting their buddies during the service, “Man, you gotta be here next week.” I don’t know if that’s some dude I’d want to hand around with, but hey, it could be cool.  Just keep it relevant, baby, just keep it relevant.

  • Posted by
    Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM

    For what it’s worth, I contacted fellowship church and it is confirmed they did issue a press release for this series and AP picked the story up and thus the national attention.  This should erase any doubts as to whether the interviews were needed to ward off any false accusations of what was happening there.

  • Posted by James Dalman
    Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 1:05 PM

    @Richard - I seriously hope you are joking or being sarcastic.

  • Posted by Brian L.
    Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 1:15 PM

    JOB,

    I do agree that it was unnecessary to do press releases on this subject.  I also agree (as noted in previous posts) that I don’t think the worship service is the place for this series.

    My only thought was that even with the press release, refusing to do interviews might actually cloud the issue rather than clear it up.

    BTW, thanks for doing the research.  It’s refreshing when someone with an opposing viewpoint actually backs up their position with research and facts instead of assumptions and opinion!

  • Posted by
    Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 10:06 AM

    Good Morning America reported that Ed Yound didn’t fulfill his own seven day assignment. His wife said that on the seventh day, when she tried to wake him up for class that day, that he was too tired.

    Let’s see: on the seventh day, Ed rested. Where have I heard that one before?

    Oh yeah: “on the seventh day, God rested....”

    If Ed is going to cover the whole subject of sex in the Bible then he needs to cover Second Corinthians 7 where Paul encourages married believers to abstain from sex in order to grow in their relationship with God.

    Thinks maybe Paul knew that as a believer grows in their relationship with God that they would grow closer to their spouse?

    Sex is never presented in the Bible as the “healer” of relationships. The cross of Christ is the only healer of relationships.

    If sex had the ability to heal relationships, then the world would be a wonderful place to live and everyone would get along just fine with each other. (haha)

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