http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2008/03/march-sex-madness-poll-results/ Frustrate. Educate. Motivate. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2008/03/march-sex-madness-poll-results/comment-page-1/#comment-6968 Jon Smock Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:50:54 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=1146#comment-6968 I see your point, Cathy, but I also think that you need to go through the motions (no pun intended) before you start to feel it. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, if you're trying to stop telling lies, you need to bite your tongue for a while until you actually WANT to stop telling lies. By the same token, for a lot of married couples, while they might have deeper problems, having somewhat awkward intimacy upfront might be the gateway to being open and dealing with those other problems. I think sometimes we aren't intimate, because we're angry, or we're sad, or we don't think the other person thinks we're attractive...and then we haven't been intimate in a while, so we're not intimate now, because it's status quo...and then we have problems. We don't want excuses to ruin our intimacy, which ultimately creates even more (and serious) problems. I see your point, Cathy, but I also think that you need to go through the motions (no pun intended) before you start to feel it.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is, if you’re trying to stop telling lies, you need to bite your tongue for a while until you actually WANT to stop telling lies. By the same token, for a lot of married couples, while they might have deeper problems, having somewhat awkward intimacy upfront might be the gateway to being open and dealing with those other problems. I think sometimes we aren’t intimate, because we’re angry, or we’re sad, or we don’t think the other person thinks we’re attractive…and then we haven’t been intimate in a while, so we’re not intimate now, because it’s status quo…and then we have problems. We don’t want excuses to ruin our intimacy, which ultimately creates even more (and serious) problems.

]]> http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2008/03/march-sex-madness-poll-results/comment-page-1/#comment-6967 Brett Moore Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:26:13 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=1146#comment-6967 I think the only people who would have a problem with this campaign are people who don't have a good sex life and are just plain jealous. C'mon folks- disagreeing with this is what gets us made fun of so much in the first place. I think the only people who would have a problem with this campaign are people who don’t have a good sex life and are just plain jealous.
C’mon folks- disagreeing with this is what gets us made fun of so much in the first place.

]]> http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2008/03/march-sex-madness-poll-results/comment-page-1/#comment-6966 Cathy Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:22:08 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=1146#comment-6966 It's not that I'm against the idea of the 30-day sex challenge, I just think that there's more to this issue than "married people should have sex every day for 30 days." Having more sex isn't going to fix intimacy problems; it seems to me that if a couple isn't having "enough" sex, then the problem likely stems from a deeper issue that should be addressed. Simply demanding that people "do it more" seems a little like a solution a 14-year-old boy would come up with. It’s not that I’m against the idea of the 30-day sex challenge, I just think that there’s more to this issue than “married people should have sex every day for 30 days.” Having more sex isn’t going to fix intimacy problems; it seems to me that if a couple isn’t having “enough” sex, then the problem likely stems from a deeper issue that should be addressed.
Simply demanding that people “do it more” seems a little like a solution a 14-year-old boy would come up with.

]]> http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2008/03/march-sex-madness-poll-results/comment-page-1/#comment-6965 Lex Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:14:47 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=1146#comment-6965 I'm going to be the lame, spiritual commenter here and say we need a 30-Day Prayer Challenge. Or a 30-Day Read-Your-Bible Challenge. Or a good, old-fashioned 30-Day Fast of some sort. I hate to be the bucket of cold water, but Christians don't know how to do the basics anymore, and I'm not seeing a lot of churches encouraging it. I don't even think it's something we couldn't share with people outside the church. "You don't believe? Tell you what, you pray every day for a month for truth and we'll see what happens." Or we could make it fun and challenge leadership to abstain from telling their designers "No" for 30 days. That could be eye-opening. I’m going to be the lame, spiritual commenter here and say we need a 30-Day Prayer Challenge. Or a 30-Day Read-Your-Bible Challenge. Or a good, old-fashioned 30-Day Fast of some sort.
I hate to be the bucket of cold water, but Christians don’t know how to do the basics anymore, and I’m not seeing a lot of churches encouraging it. I don’t even think it’s something we couldn’t share with people outside the church. “You don’t believe? Tell you what, you pray every day for a month for truth and we’ll see what happens.”
Or we could make it fun and challenge leadership to abstain from telling their designers “No” for 30 days. That could be eye-opening.

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