Two adulterers and a rapist - 7 February 2010 |
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Here are a few news items from the last couple of weeks:
1. A senior Labour MP who cheated on his wife by having an affair with another woman in his Commons office is to stand down at the general election. Mr Nigel Griffiths, 54, was photographed in 2008 with a woman on a sofa in his parliamentary office.
2. John Terry has been removed from his post as England football captain after a Sunday newspaper published allegations that he had an extra-marital relationship with the former partner of Chelsea and England team-mate Wayne Bridge.
3. An American judge has demanded that the award-winning director Roman Polanski should return to the US for sentencing after he found guilty of sexually assaulting a 13-year old girl over 30 years ago. Mr Polanski has refused to return, and remains in Switzerland, where he claims to have been “overwhelmed by messages of support.”
It’s not hard to spot the common thread. It certainly wasn’t hard to find these stories; indeed, there were many more in the same vein. The secular world is in a complete mess over sex and marriage.
This moral chaos is so pervasive, in fact, that it can be hard for us as Christians to discuss the issues of sex and marriage openly. Perhaps we are more affected than we realise by nasty combination of embarrassment and lewdness that we find around us. Besides this, as Christians we find ourselves in a wide variety of different circumstances, and it’s hard to prescribe a single remedy for such a multi-faceted malady. So it’s hard for us to talk about sex and marriage.
But talk about it we must. The word of the Lord on this subject might be hard to hear, but if anything this makes it even more necessary. Here, therefore, are some thoughts on a small part of that word.
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog