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Our very own Jana Snyder wrote a guest post on a leading youth ministry blog last month.  MoreThanDodgeball.com, written by Saddleback High School Pastor Josh Griffin, is a great resource to youth workers around the country.  Here's what Jana had to say about programs like The Sexy Truth exist:

Teens these days are inundated with messages about sex, our culture is saturated with commercials that have sexual innuendoes.  You can barely turn the television on during prime time and not see scantily clad girls and guys targeting the high school and middle school students.  Culture is screaming sexuality!

But on the other side of the coin I think the church in also not addressing the issue.  What does the church say in response – Don’t have sex!  And that is it – we don’t explain why, we don’t talk about the gift of sex or that having sex is an act of worship when in a marriage relationship.  Because the church has avoided talking about the topic, our students are turning to the media to get their answers.

Read the full article on MoreThanDodgeball.com.