2 Responses to “Thoughts on the Seven Day Sex Challenge”

1. Bill Fawcett
   December 1st, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

   perhaps one shuold rest on the sevent day…..

2. Jabez H.
   December 8th, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

   Bizarre. The thought that sexual relations are the only cement of a marriage seems ill founded. Even more so, when taken on as a demand by assignment. Sexual relations are God given for marriage, however, so are monthly woman cycles, meeting the kids’ needs, school requirements, world’s terms, job, bills, etc.–all which require a balancing act for any household. All too which scatter libido, and other forms of energy many ways (by sublimination, if by nothing more). Sexual energy is linked to emotional and bodily energy, which comes and goes according to reality. Like sleep, exercise, the right foods, etc.

   What one contemplates from this is that all the four loves–as C.S. Lewis labels them well–are interrelated, connected, and affect the heart toward certain intentions, practices, and outcomes: day by day.

   If the supposition is that seven days of the Song of Soloman will change the level of all other intimate connections between a bride and bridegroom for the better or best, maybe. But it seems more likely that other arenas of connection will be put on the shelf, and suffer, where such is orchestrated as an agenda alone. Even if the Pastor advocate is attempting to steer the gift of sex into the bedroom for true time together without other distractions, such ignores the balancing act of body, mind, and soul.

   Even Paul speaks too of spending agreed upon time apart from sexual relations for the purpose of devotional prayer–in a marriage. He also speaks of not denying one another, so, both must be possible in the devotional life. Now, if a couple determines time and mood to follow the Song, so be it, but the Pastor won’t be invited to take research notes to prove his supposition for the duration.

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