A speaker argues that Christian homes and churches must proactively address sexuality because silence leaves youth to learn from culture. Using personal anecdote, the speaker emphasizes that open communication in families and church provides a safe place for questions and counters outside cultural messages.
If you were silent about that topic, and then that does happen to your kid. I know for me, growing up, we didn't talk about that a lot, and the silence spoke really loudly to me. And so I think that you're still doing due diligence there, that even if they do stray into things you've already talked about and trying to help them avoid, at least they know that if they get to a point where they have questions, we've already talked about it in our house. Like, I can go to my parents and talk to them about this. And what's interesting, too, what you're saying, Kristen, is this is a perspective that we take when talking to churches about addressing sexuality in general, that people are going to hear about it. Is it going to be in the church or in the Christian home, or is it going to be in culture? And I think our Christian homes and churches, like, we have to say, well, then we need to start talking about it. If they're already hearing about it out here outside of, you know, this safe place of the church or our home, we need to also address it, because the voices they're hearing from the outside may sound very different from what they want, what we want them to hear from us.
