Guests: Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker and Shannon Ethridge
In this series, Shannon Etheridge said, “If anyone had asked me when I was 12 if I wanted to remain a virgin until marriage, I would have said, ‘of course I do.’
At 13, I would've said, ‘I think so.’ By 14, I would've replied, ‘maybe.’ At age 15, my response would have been, ‘I don't see how that is possible.’”
Why is this happening? It's because of the constant message permeating our culture from secular music to movies, from the Internet to television programs, from books and teen magazines to advertisements and commercials. It is even taught in our schools.
Shannon Ethridge along with Steven Arterburn and Fred Stoeker examine a woman’s challenge for sexual purity. Men and women struggle in different ways when it comes to sexual integrity. While a man's battle begins with what he takes in through his eyes, a woman's begins with her heart and her thoughts. Because God made women to be emotionally and mentally stimulated, they must closely guard their hearts and minds as well as their bodies if they want to experience God's plan for sexual and emotional fulfillment. Men give love to get sex and women give sex to get love.
The goal of The Challenge Facing Every Woman is to say, whether you are sexually pure, hanging on to your virginity by a thread, or having sex regularly, you can maintain and/or reclaim your sexual integrity not just in your youth, but throughout your whole life. In our series, Shannon explains how young women can successfully cope with the pressures and battles they face and insure that their marriage will be all that God, and they, want it to be.
Copyright: 2007, Number of Programs: 4, Cat. No. CFW
