GATLINBURG — “If you have a boyfriend that wants to have sex (but are) scared to say no and just break up, what do you do?”
The teen’s question, submitted anonymously via an app, was read to 100-plus of her peers and their parents.
“You need to be focused on God’s plan for your sexuality,” her pastor, Nick Moore, replied. The boyfriend “doesn’t sound like the kind of person who is pursuing that same design.”
“Eventually he will break you down,” Moore’s wife Kyndra added, commending the teen for “trying to do what is right.” Agree with God in prayer “that sex is for marriage,” she counseled, “(and that) ‘I believe you have a man for me who will love me and cherish me and take care of me.’”
The Moores led a Wednesday evening session on “God’s design for sexuality” — and Satan’s “war on sex” in his hatred of God — at First Baptist Church, Gatlinburg, where Nick is the lead pastor. [Read more…]