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The SEMI - Week Seven - May 10-14 - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fulIer.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp Sex in Heaven? by Seth Zielicke, SEMI Editor Is there sex in Heaven? Philosopher Pe­ ter Kreeft (www.peterkreeft.com) seems to think so. He contends that human sexuality is just a foreshadow of the marvelous spiri­ tual intimacy we will have with God and others in Heaven. Kreeft says that although we often fan­ tasize about sex, we rarely, if ever, really think about human sexuality at a meaning­ ful level. Most people rarely think about the spiritual implications of sex or how God made us sexual beings for a purpose. At first, I questioned Kreeft’s logic. But while youth pastoring at a church, I started Photo from http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/gaddis/ mulling over Kreeft’s reasoning. After HST354/Feb2 7/adameve.jpg Sex and the Historian watching one student overcome rape, by Dr. John L. Thompson another wrestle with pornography, and another deal with her out-of-wedlock At a men’s retreat about a month ago, I pregnancy, I discovered our sexuality forms was struck by a comment in the wake of much of our identity. Not only our identity the Saturday night presentation, which as male and female, but our spiritual pertained to men and sex, including matters identity. Our sexual past and present can Sexuality and the of fidelity, chastity, pornography, and affect how we perceive both God and others physiology. One attendee confessed to an feel about us. Scriptures initial discomfort with such a discussion, I am grateful that the Bible talks about only to realize, gradually, how freeing it was by Dr. Marianne Meye Thompson______all aspects of human sexuality and presents to talk with other men about a matter that is God as someone who can relate to the good, The Bible doesn’t offer a “theology of so often, and in so many ways, marked by bad, and ugly aspects of human sexuality. sexuality.” Of course, it also has no theology personal failure. It seems good to dialogue about what it of war, economics, salvation, the church, or The church today rarely seems to speak means to be made in God’s likeness—as anything else. That doesn’t mean Scripture frankly about sex, even though church ought sexual beings! Once when I picked up has nothing to say on these topics, only that to be the perfect place for people to leam author Calvin Miller from the airport, I the material doesn’t come to us in topically about sex— at least, if we believe that both asked him, “What helps you grow the most organized treatises. sexuality and sexual control are good things, spiritually?” He replied, “What helped the The narrative of Scripture begins in given to us by our creator, damaged by the most was learning how to worship God with Genesis with creation, and includes the fall, yet restored in some measure and others, with my money, and with my creation of male and female for each other. healed by the grace we find in Jesus Christ. sexuality.” Even as woman was “taken out of man,” so Nonetheless, churches often shy away from What does it mean to worship God with when a man leaves his home and joins acknowledging the sexuality of worshipers. our sexuality? I think both Kreeft and Miller himself to woman, they become “one flesh.” Was it always so? suggest similar ideas: we should handle our They were made for and belong to each In earlier ages, the church addressed sexuality in a way that creates intimacy and other. Marriage and sexual union bear sexuality in a number of ways, mostly joy, rather than pain and hurt to others. witness to this mutual belonging of men and urging self-control and holding up what In February, the SEMI tried to present women as lives and bodies are joined. Paul might seem impossibly high ideals. In the a continuum of articles ranging from later testifies that in the body of Christ Middle Ages in particular, the church was healthy sexuality to pathology. Although “there is no male and female,” not because of distinctly two minds regarding sexuality this didn’t happen then, this SEMI is the differences of our sexuality are erased, even within a Christian marriage. designed to help us dialogue about how we but because of the unity that is ours in that On the one hand, church and clergy can place God at the center of our sexuality. new creation. held up the ideal of chastity. This wasn’t continued on page 9 continued on page 10 page 2 - the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp Masturbation By Joanna Henzel • S taff When I was approached to write an he have a serious and blatant addiction to • M ission article on masturbation, like any normal pom, but he immediately developed a very person who’s asked to address such a touchy singularly focused sexual interest in me and • D isclaimer issue, I balked at the idea for a minute. Who expressed his fantasies to me in verbally Dean of Students Ruth Vuong would really want to talk about something graphic ways. Although I rebuffed him M anaging E ditor Carmen Valdés that private—especially being a girl? quickly, he proceeded to share how he Shouldn’t a guy be more qualified? would “jack off’ whenever he heard my E ditor Seth Zielicke However, I came to the conclusion that I voice on the phone and wanted to “rape [me] [email protected] have a story out of my personal experiences up the ass.” That, in turn, resulted in my P roduction E ditor Bryan Mark that can enlighten the issue and cast a threatening everything from restraining [email protected] helpful perspective on some of the problems orders to getting him fired, etc. He finally regarding masturbation. The SEMI is published weekly as a service to backed off and I don’t hear from him the Fuller community by Student Life and Ser­ When most people bring up the anymore. vices, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, sensitive issue of masturbation, the What is the point of me bringing this CA91182. Articles and commentaries do not immediate thought is that it is mostly a up, you might ask? The point I would like necessarily reflect the views of the Fuller administration or the SEMI. Final editorial problem for men. I would like to assert that to get across is not anything about this sick responsibility rests with the dean of students. it is not only a problem for men, but also person, but something I learned from my for women on two levels. reaction to his behavior. At one point in our Letters to the Editor: The SEMI welcomes brief responses to articles and commentaries The first level (to cast away a conversations, it hit me that I didn’t like the stereotype) is that some women do in fact on issues relevant to the Fuller community. All submissions must include the author’s physically struggle with masturbation. For name and contact information and are subject women, this issue can be embarrassing and to editing. not spoken of because it has been labeled a Announcements: Notices may be submitted male issue. Taken to its logical conclusion, to [email protected] or dropped off it shouldn’t be a problem for our gender. at the SEMI Office on the 2nd floor of Women are sexual beings and we do get Kreyssler Hall above the Catalyst. They must be submitted by the deadlines printed below frustrated. Maybe not as frustrated as men, and not exceed 35 words. but it still happens. Advertisements: Notices for events not Granted, not everyone who masturbates directly sponsored by a Fuller department, has psychological issues. Some office, or organization will be printed in the psychologists even encourage women who “Ads” section and charged per word. All are experiencing sexual frustrations to requests should be made through the Production Editor at [email protected], engage in masturbation (and mutual edu. masturbation with their husbands) to discover what Submission Deadlines: arouses their unique, God- Spring 9: May 12 Spring 10: May 19 given bodies. Other Summer 1: June 30 psychologists highlight how masturbation and genital exploration is a fact that he was thinking about me that way. All Seminary normal part of human development. I didn’t like the way he made me feel when The second level of masturbation is my I knew that he was using images of my body Chapel______focus here. I don’t have a problem with to masturbate. I felt degraded, helpless, and Wednesday, May 12 masturbation as a means to sexual release. less confident in myself as a result of what Siang-Yang I have a problem when masturbation gets he told me. Who knew what countless others Tan, profes­ out of control. As Christians, we constantly had used the same mental images in their sor of Psychology, will hear about healthy relationships between private times alone and just didn’t reveal it lead All Seminary men and women being one of respect and to me? admiration. Both men and women can feel Chapel with a message I started to wonder what kind of a about walking on wa­ scared and objectified when someone’s person I was to 1) attract a person like that sexual appetite towards them gets out of ter—stepping out by and 2) attract those kinds of reactions to faith in Jesus. SOP professor Jeff Bjorck control. Let me relate a story of my own myself as a person. It was degrading regarding this second level of masturbation. and SOT student David Peng will provide because I didn’t give him permission to musical leadership. In college, I met a high school English mentally use me as a sexual object. In a teacher who became a friend of mine. sense, it invaded my privacy as a person and Wednesday, May 19 Shortly after we met, I began to see strange also as a woman whom God created as a The student preaching award winner will patterns of behavior in him. Not only did sexual human being. be speaking. continued on page 8 [he Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuHer.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp - page 3 Not About the Ring by Kara Stewart ______Of all of the beautiful gifts God made Ideally, when we’re in anv « ■ § for us to enjoy, sex is the one that has been kind of pain, we should be able to h distorted the most. Here’s where the go to the Church Body for help. H conversation usually begins and, We would never think of seeking ■ unfortunately, ends: “Once you’re married, advice about something so ^ it’s a beautiful thing.” That may be true, but important to our spiritual health it’s one part of the conversation, not the end from HBO, would we? But what of it. If marriage is the only place where we if they’re the only ones talking are supposed to be able to truly enjoy the about it? Maybe non-Christians are benefits of sex, then why? And why are so easier to talk to because we don’t many Christian couples struggling with sex fear the judgment that we’re sure if they’ve done everything the “right way?” will come if we address it with our For some of us, sex is scary. There’s church family. So most single nothing that can more easily forfeit eternal Christians will continue to seek security than doing something sexually advice outside of the Body, which “wrong” or immoral. Isn’t that what they I believe is extremely sad. teach in youth group? At least that’s what We need to feel safe talking many of us remember. In marriage, I about sex INSIDE the Body of celebrating the beauty of sex. For some, this suppose, the veil lifts and we can Christ. It’s amazing to me when I hear transition never really takes place and sex functionally engage in a randy, healthy sex Evangelicals still talking as if our bodies continues to hurt and haunt us. life. But shouldn’t there be some kind of are “where sin lives.” Our bodies were I believe that we need to rewind a few system? You know, where God takes away created and deemed “good” by the Creator. thousand years and rethink sexual sin. Some our mojo at age 13 only to give it back to us They’re part of the creation we were make it seem easy: If you’re married it’s as a divine wedding gift? commanded to care for. They are the not a sin, if you’re not, it is. Rape is always Too bad it doesn’t work that way. So beautiful result of God’s creative touch. sin whether you’re married or not. That’s some of us have lived in a constant state of When we’re single, they seem like sources judgment against ourselves and continue to of pain and sin because we don’t know how it. But I think it’s far more complicated hurt over God’s great gift. Some did to give our bodies what they’re craving than that. I believe sexual sins take place everything right, saved themselves for without being dirty, even in our thoughts. both inside and outside marriage. It’s not marriage only to find it frightening and Once we marry, we’re supposed to go from about the ring at all. Sexual sins take place unsatisfying, even miserable. punishing ourselves for our humanness to continued on page 7

An Invitation to Intimacy: A Response to The Penner Seminar by Marla Hyder ______“He adores, and she invites. ” a bit like sixth-grade sex ed., but thankfully good because it was created by God”). These are important, but what happens This Song of Solomon summary by were not met with the same embarrassed when you do get married? Sex certainly Clifford and Joyce Penner struck me as a twitters. doesn’t just “happen.” It takes work. And if beautiful model for the intimacy of After each lecture—which covered no one is talking about the gritty details, it marriage, a model I see reflected daily in such topics as Sexual Development from can be a pretty confusing experience for my relationship with my husband. With so Birth, Body Image, and When Sex Isn’t newlyweds—thrilling, but confusing. much cultural misuse of sexuality—in and Working—the Penners gave us time to Clifford and Joyce Penner’s seminar outside of marriage—this paradigm gives answer related questions in a workbook and raised some questions and answered others, hope to those who can hardly envision a then discuss our answers with our spouse. but most of all, it encouraged my husband healthy sexual relationship. The husband My husband and I appreciated this emphasis and me toward deeper communication, doesn’t insist, doesn’t force, doesn’t on the absolute necessity of communication. intimacy, and adoration...of each other and command. He adores. He cherishes his wife These short discussions served as exactly as she is. In gratitude and the glow springboards for later talks—indeed, for a our Creator. lifetime of communicating about this crucial of acceptance, she responds with an Marla Hyder works in the invitation to intimacy. and sensitive subject. Registrar's Office. She also Billed as a seminar on “Love, Passion As a number of students told the SEMI plays the trombone, skis and and Intimacy,” the Penners’ Valentine’s last quarter, churches seem to ignore the snowboards, reads Madeleine topic of sex. When it is discussed, the focus L’Engle and J.R.R. Tolkien, Weekend conference was an intensely and adores her husband of two practical and explicit discussion of sexuality is on'prohibitions (“don’t have sex until and a half years, Luke. within marriage. The anatomy sketches felt you’re married”) and philosophies ( sex is page 4 - the S emi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp Homosexuality—It’s Not The Only Wrong A Perspective by Damian Westfall______If someone asked me if I thought the we to start pointing fingers? How are we gay lifestyle was a sin, I’d very strongly better than homosexuals? proclaim, “Not at all!” If I asked myself in Some will say to me in retort, “Well, private the same question, I’d frown and say the difference between them and us lies in “I don’t know...yes...no....” I’m the fact that they are unrepentant hurt deeply hearing my fellow and we are repentant.” Christian sisters and brothers My response? That’s simply judging, segregating against, and not true. For if our sins are Hoplite Soldiers: www.pbs.org spewing contempt towards my repentant that would mean that Homosexual relationships between men and youths gay Christian brothers and sisters. we would stop committing them, played an important role in Greek society. These re­ So I’d like to remind my not merely doing them over and lationships continued until the youth reached adult­ hood. In Sparta and Thebes, women would dress as Christian sisters and brothers of over while daily asking God to men on their wedding night to help their husbands some of Paul’s rhetoric in forgive them. Such talk is transition from homosexual to heretosexual love. (The Romans. nonsense. above statue is located at the Acropolis museum.) Paraphrasing Saint Paul: When I see my brothers and When we condemn and/or segregate sisters in Christ pointing fingers A. Women are fornicating with Courtesan Fas­ gays, do we ever stop and remind at my gay sisters and brothers, I women: It’s unnatural. tening Sandal: ourselves that God is watching us while think of the Nazi trials at B. Men are fornicating with men: www.pbs.org we behave as such? And do we picture Nuremburg. It’s unnatural and indecent. Lesbianism derives its what will happen when we die and stand What if during the trials, all C. These people commit these name from the island of before Christ and he asks us why we hated Lesbos in the Aegan. The the Nazi officers stood up and terrible sins: immorality, greed, and condemned on earth? Why we were female poet Sappho com­ started pointing at the others on filled with such puffed up self- badness, envy, murder, strife, posed passionate love po­ trial, saying “I’m not the bad righteousness and false piety? What deceit, malice, gossip, slander, ems addressed to young one-it’s them! THEM! They are God-haters, violent, arrogant, women on Lesbos in the possible excuse could we give him, 7th Century BCE. For the evil ones! I just had a desk knowing that he knows every thought and boasters, inventors of evil, Sappho, lesbianism didn’t job! It’s not me!” deed we’ve ever had or done? disobedient to parents, senseless, exclude marriage and Now it would be obvious to We cannot bullshit God like we can unfaithful, inaffectionate, childbirth. The Ancient those viewing this, that unmerciful. And what’s more, Greeks didn’t define bullshit ourselves and others. We are all themselves using exclu­ regardless of what job they had, they approve of the others who rats in the same sewer waiting for Jesus. sive sexual terms, so it is they were all Nazi officers and Let’s all wait together and celebrate his do the same! How terrible! difficult to compare their all equally guilty. It would be D. Therefore you Christians have activities with modem un­ resurrection and coming again. Let’s not ludicrous for one to condemn the no excuse when you judge derstandings of sexuality. make some people wait (The above vase is located other, but it would be outside. everybody...you condemn your­ at the Louvre in Paris.) understandable. Those finger­ self when you judge others...we Damian Westfall is an SOT pointing officers would be trying drone. He is confident in his are still all full of sin! to distract the judge from their sins to those sexuality, and thus, will not say In other words: We all sin quite an of the others. here that his girlfriend's name is Heather. incredible amount each day, who then are

Homosexuality: Our Readers Respond by David Steinbrenner The homosexuality edition of the Semi affair was because the church at large does that judgment on behavior - including has just arrived in the providences (i.e., not accept homosexual behavior. It seems sexual behavior - is an intrinsic part of love Phoenix), and I would like to take the odd to think that an attempted murder could in God’s economy? opportunity to comment on the student have been prevented if only the church had Second, Scott Becker’s piece with the articles and their approaches to the issue of affirmed women having sex with other guideline suggestions for how the church homosexuality, which I found disturbing. women. Also, it is difficult to follow the should approach gays and lesbians appears First, Robert Strong’s article, while perspective in Mr. Strong’s closing suspect. His most questionable assumption articulate, contained curious lines of sentence, which reads: “I pray that...as the is that the categories of heterosexual and reasoning and thought. For instance, he prophet said, love will triumph over homosexual have direct or near-direct implies that the reason Judy Brown judgment.” The prophetic books are loaded correspondence with the categories of Jew attempted to murder the husband of a with numerous examples of divine and Greek in the New Testament. To suggest woman with whom she was having a lesbian judgment. With this in mind, is it possible that sexual tastes and orientation are closely continued on page 8 5 Sex Is Good By Michael Harmon______5. God is reflected in it. We already “May he kiss me with the kisses o f his acknowledge that most Christians are not discussed the nature of the Song of mouth! For your love is better than wine. ” given such a gift. But this is for good reason. Solomon, but what about a key passage of - Song of Solomon 1:2 (NASB). So then, as a faithful Calvinist, let me give you five good reasons why I believe sex in the New Testament: Ephesians 5:28-33. God commands husbands to love their Warning: sex is good. a covenant of marital relationship is good, wives as if loving themselves, because we In the recesses of my mind and in the and worth talking about: are Christ’s body and our relationships annals of Christian History Magazine, I 1. God created humanity with the should reflect such. Paul even includes seem to remember there being an article ability to reproduce. On the whole, Genesis 2:24. The most intense expression about two main biblical schools during the anyone who reaches puberty can understand of how a husband and wife become one period of the early church. One was that the sexual drive is something that flesh is by the consummation of their God- Alexandrian, always searching for the normally comes with age, without ordained partnership in sexual relations. spiritual meaning behind a biblical text. dependence of arriving upon the willingness This is not to say that Christ relates to us in Those of the Antiochan persuasion also of a human heart. Even the nature of a man’s the same way as His body. There s no searched for the spiritual meaning but and woman’s anatomies speak volumes precedent for that in Scripture. However, always took literal history and context of about the purpose of this facet of creation. there is something to be said for the intimacy the passage into mind first. Why do I bring and love expressed in the physical side of a this up, you ask? Well, to be honest, some 2. God commanded humans to marriage and the intimacy and love if not many in the Church today are of the reproduce. Genesis 1:28 says that God expressed by Christ for His Church in His Alexandrian method when it comes to sex, blessed man and woman, commanding them physical death and resurrection. And if this to a fault. that familiar phrase, “Be fruitful and seems strange to you, it should. Paul calls In our Christian circles, more often than multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it. this a mystery. not, “sex” is never even uttered. It is a (NASB) Many even throughout church spiritual faux pas. So much so that even in history have been famous for looking down It is my belief that if every Christian times of spiritual weakness, many people upon sexual relations. Tertullian, Origen, were to understand the true meaning of sex, are unwilling to be direct and upfront about and even Augustine could be expected to the purposes, and source of it, many of our their struggles. Perhaps the uprooting of our go through this phase of denial of the sexual problems would be solved in loving spiritual soil has more to do with our silence drive inherent to all human beings. But the than it does with our confessions, or lack facts are in the Scripture: humanity thereof. Maybe it has to do with acceptance was meant, as a majority, to of who we are created to be, rather than who reproduce in a loving partnered we long to exalt ourselves to be. relationship before God in Many in today’s Church family have response to His commands, and held too long onto the notion that there is this was before the curse and fall. only a higher spiritual meaning to texts like 3. God has a people for Himself. the one quoted above. To be sure, the This might sound odd until you meaning is obvious: God loves His people realize that the way God has so much that the only way to even come chosen to bring about people for Photo from http://garykelly.pageout.net/user/www/g/a/garykelly/ close to describing it involves the most Himself is first that they be sexuality.jpg intimate of human relationships—sexual conceived physically and born ______union. But unfortunately for most spiritually (John 3:5-6). One Christians, this is where the discussion ends. cannot be bom spiritually without being community a lot sooner and a lot more Sex is relegated to the realm of “hush-hush,” conceived physically. How else is this to effectively. The problem is not that we are something only associated with carnality, happen? sexual beings. The problem is that as sinful and the real meaning from which this people, we have perverted sex from the way spiritual truth is gathered is left to perish, 4. God desires it for His people. God God originally created it. We’re called to frigid in the blizzard of false purity, along desires godly children, so that His name reflect God in every aspect of our lives; let’s with those who are scared away from the might be honored and glorified more in this honor Him as His people by following His topic but inwardly have passion provoked world (1 Cor. 7:14; Malachi 2:15). Sex is commands to do so. to their own detriment. the physical method He has chosen to Now, before anybody think me accomplish this, and while the physical blasphemous, please let me tell you that I body is perishable and eventually, for those Mike Harmon (SOT, M.Div.) happen to be quite conservative. In a search who believe, will be transformed into loves his fiancee Lexi, laugh­ ing, and ministering the Word. for truth and conviction, I’ve landed (for imperishable bodies, in order for a body to the moment) in the Calvinist camp. We become imperishable among humans it should never forget that God gives the gift must first be bom perishable. of celibacy (1 Cor. 7:7), but we should also page 6 - the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp Missions Concerns Forum: May 13 If you completed the Ethics Test in the Americans answer is with money. Most of Jordan Week 5 SEMI, you may have started us aren’t willing to leave our comfortable Never say “Ramallah” if you’re trying wrestling with the various ethical issues lives to spread the Gospel in some to cross the border from Jordan into Israel. about doing cross-cultural ministry. Three backwater jungle. We’d rather write a check These were the chiding words I received of our members in the Mission Concerns and let someone else do it. from my friends shortly after I almost mined Committee have come across real issues We are a jaded lot. It’s only the most our plans to go into the West Bank to during their mission experiences in China dramatic stories that catch our attention and minister to a Christian family with a and Jordan and shared their thoughts in this our checkbooks. So many people dramatize Muslim-background. There were four of us article. For further discussion, visit our their needs in order to keep the money Fuller students and one missionary, and forum on May 13. flowing so their ministries can continue, what started out as a routine border-crossing even if the results would be considered turned into what felt like an interrogation, China negligible. Is this the way missions is as each of us was individually examined and In our daily lives, many of us don’t supposed to be done? In addition to using cross-examined as to our intentions for have-to think about the cost of doing drama to keep the funds flowing, guilt is going into Israel. ministry. Here in America we enjoy also employed to keep the volunteers We hadn’t prepared enough to get our religious freedom that is beyond the willing. We aren’t committed enough if we story straight, and so when they asked me comprehension of many in distant places aren’t willing to risk our lives to spread the the question, “Are you going into any such as China, Iraq and France. (France good news. When things are framed in this Muslims cities?” I said, Yeah, we’re going limits the wearing of religious symbols.) If way there is little room for theological to Ramallah. I quickly found out that the you had asked me before I went to China if dialog, much less ethical thought as to Israelis weren’t especially excited about it’s okay for a missionary to enter a country whether we are doing more harm than good. people going into the West Bank, so what covertly in order to spread the Gospel, I Ethically, several questions rose up in could have been a quick 11/2 hour exit from would have answered, “yes!” with my mind. What kind of Christians am I Jordan into Israel became a four hour enthusiastic head nodding. That’s an easy forming if in order to convert them I have nightmare. I guess I didn’t know at the time answer to make this side of the Pacific. But to use false pretences? Is it ethical to convert that the better response would have been to once I got to China I discovered that ethical people if by doing so I will be putting their completely evade the question and say, “I issues, such as covertly entering a country lives in danger? As I began thinking about don’t know what you mean by Muslim to share the Gospel, aren’t always very clear. these questions I realized that there’s no cities.” At least that’s what I was told after “See that girl over there? We know right answer for all situations. To make the fact. she’s a Christian and why she’s here.” This matters worse, the ethical questions change This whole business of integrity and comment was made to me by a member of from culture to culture and from time to honesty in our ministry seems easy to talk the Chinese Foreign Affairs bureau of my time. about on a theological or Scriptural level, town. “Why do people ignore our laws and For example, in China there is a legal but it certainly feels different when you have come over with lies?” Good question, the means to enter the country and work as an somebody from another country grilling you best I could do was point out that I was also open Christian, but in Mauritania there are with questions that you weren’t prepared to a Christian and that I had come over through very few legal channels and very few answer. In the back of your mind, you know the legal channels and was doing my best Christians. So when I was deciding to go to that the answers to your questions could to follow the laws in China. China, the questions revolved around legal affect whether you will be able to When I came home that summer all I vs. illegal entry and how I understood the accomplish what you have set out to do. was asked about was persecution of role of the state in the church. The questions However, I am committed to the idea that churches in China and if I was able to spread in Mauritania revolve around whether or not our lives are to reflect Christ and his the Gospel. I found myself stuck in the- one should lie about their reasons for going principles. We must first leam to be wise middle. The laws in China forbid into the country and whether or not one and faithful with the process, trusting that proselytizing. Yet, as a Christian, I am should try to convert people with the God shall accomplish His purposes through supposed to be going out into the world and understanding you could be putting that us. spreading the Gospel. How can I rend unto persons life in jeopardy. -Jonathan Bennett (SOT, M.Div.) Caesar what is his in countries where I’m Have you ever thought about these not allowed to preach the good news? ethical issues before? It is the Mission “Millions of people are perishing every Concerns Committee’s hope that in our SOP and Ethics day without knowing the Gospel! You can upcoming forum we can explore the ethical Some of you SOP minded people might help stop the slaughter...” I read this on a aspect of missions and provide a safe forum be asking: what do these questions about website that was sponsoring underground in which we can explore these questions and ethics in ministry have to do with me? Well, trips to various closed countries. I found that maybe come up with some answers, or at I think it has everything to do with you. All statement quite dramatic. But often, it’s the least a framework within which to explore of us take classes that talk about and drama that catches our attention. When these issues! consider ethical issues in our work. Though faced with a dramatic plea or story for help, -Marie McCulley (SOT, M.Div.) professional licensing boards draw the we answer and the most common way continued on next page Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp the S emi Not About the Ring - continued from page 3 fulfill their fantasies before they go home when we use sex as a weapon, as a tool or This here, the part of me I’ve sucked and leave me here, still attached to their as manipulation. The world is waiting for in since I was 14, is finally coming into its toys. I can’t separate my body from who I us to join in the conversation. They are own. I’m accepting it more now and letting am without committing an act of violence talking about the complexities of sex while it hang loose! Someday, it might stretch and against myself that ultimately leads to death. we shut the book with a swift, “Abstinence contort until it’s a little portable nest. Maybe Not the kind of death we have funerals for is the only answer!” If that’s so, then we someday. and acknowledge publicly. It’s the other, need to talk about why, not only because These little mounds on my chest, (and more disgusting kind of death. It’s the kind we will be more functional human beings, yes, I’m comfortable with the word little), of death that can be prevented by the love but because we might find out that there’s are not so pretty as the ones on the actresses you were bom and died for. The kind of love more to remaining pure than self denial and in the movies. If he ever got a chance to see that makes us whole again, in every sense. guilt trips. Maybe exploring the idea that them he’d agree. But his fantasy has Thank you for your love and our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit probably made him think they’re two little acceptance of me, even when I couldn t can take on a whole new meaning. rubber balls just waiting to be set free. accept myself. Help me to talk to others in More important than redefining sexual Actually, they have faint stretch marks on constructive ways so that we can heal from sin is developing a new understanding of the sides that will probably get darker with this together whether we’re single or our bodies as a holy part of God’s creation. time. But I watched them grow from seed married. You came in the flesh and made The world shows us that our bodies have so I have a different perspective. It hurt your dwelling among us. Thank you for that. entertainment value while the church shows when they started to grow. I remember us that our bodies can lead us to sin. I don’t crying because I couldn’t play rough -cJdoi/e, ^JCa\a ra buy either side. The following is my prayer anymore. I cried even harder when the for myself in this area. I wrote this at the dodge ball made a direct hit. They’re small, beginning of my healing process that I’m beautiful and mine. You didn’t create them still in the middle of. I’m a single woman for entertainment purposes. Kara Stewart (SOT, M.Div.) is It’s a “hot” body, I guess. 98.6 degrees, an actor/singer/writer/cat getting to know my body all over again with owner/theologian. God’s help.... that’s relatively warm, I guess. But it’s not “my body,” it’s me. You made me. You 2 ) ear oCord, purified me — all of me, soul and body. So I call on you when I feel My legs. A man said they’re “hot.” ByTom Wheeler Well, I like them. You created them just as the pain of the IN THE WAY they are, and I use them every day to get separation of my body around Pasadena. Whether or not they from me. Like when appear “hot” to him is a byproduct of the they tell me they want to work they do for me. play, but only with my 6 0 0 0 LOCK At that party last week, he slyly brushed body, not with me. OH. BRWHBMER. his hand against another important part of You taught me that YOU'LL 0 0 me. It’s portable furniture, like two little I can’t remove my heart l/ERT WELL. pillows to keep me comfortable while I sit for them to play ball in class, at the movies, in meditation, or at with any more than I can [OP Me & Schmicks across the table from him. give them my breasts to

Missions Concerns Forum - continued, from previous page w- y//-t/zv \^/SyÎ ^f<. boundaries around what is ethical to do with questions and at least J clients and what is not, there is still a point to some possible considerable amount of gray area when answers: When is it ok talking about religious issues. or not ok to step outside This forum is a chance to look at the the bounds of the ethics issue of ethics from a different we live by? What is the perspective—a perspective from missions higher ethic that we all and ministry that is not so restrictive as the live by? What is God professional boards are that govern calling me to share with American therapists. Perhaps such a look my clients? And can illuminate the reasoning behind the hopefully much, much ethics that we live and work by, or even can more! challenge their existence in our minds. -Renae Tonneson A Reformed Theologian Hopefully it will pose some important (SOP, MFT) page 8 - the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp

Masturbation - continued from page 2 Not everyone who masturbates is as But if some level of genital exploration and purity before God, which includes perverted as that guy. I know some people might be a natural part of human respecting others, this is definitely an issue who don’t masturbate very often and are development, wouldn’t some level of sexual worth consideration and self-reflection. able to find sexual release without fantasy be part of what it means to develop You might ask what I’m asking you to do with this. I can’t answer that for you. “Just as the Bible doesn’t give specific directives You have to decide what amount of regarding masturbation, (and you can’t tell me that conviction God is placing in your own heart regarding this matter and what He wants you for thousands of years people didn’t masturbate), I to do with it. I cannot and will not make that decision for you or call you to a specific feel I can only ask you to search your hearts and action. Just as the Bible doesn’t give specific let the Holy Spirit continually reveal whenever you directives regarding masturbation (and you can’t tell me that for thousands of years are objectifying someone in an inappropriate way.” people didn’t masturbate), I feel I can only ask you to search your hearts and let the objectifying someone. But my biggest sexually as a human? Yes! Many humans, Holy Spirit continually reveal whenever you concern is when people are objectifying including Christians, frequently think about are objectifying someone in an someone else (whether they have a personal sex. It is one thing to fantasize occasionally. inappropriate way. relationship with them or not) in an impure But it is a very different thing to lust—to The life-changing decisions that you as way when they masturbate. When this think about and devise ways to engage in Christians make should come from the happens, the masturbation tangibly sexual activity with someone—or let consideration and reflection that you do expresses the intense sexual thoughts and thoughts of sexual fantasy with a certain before God on the matter, not from anything often creates a deep web, ensnaring the person consume you while you masturbate. I ask you to do. My story is just to help you masturbator. This is the type of objectification with which to that place if you’re ready to be there. Whether the sexually motivating I have a problem with. thoughts are fictional or memories of a Most people don’t tell the other person Joanna Henzel (SOT, MAT) previous experience, as Christians, it is our about their private “endeavors” (like my enjoys the ancient world, The responsibility to act becomingly (in thought friend did) but it doesn’t change the fact that Lord o f the Rings, and her cat as well) to others. This is one of the ways they still committed the deed in their mind Bingley whom she misses very much. we can respect a human—God’s creation, for their own selfish purposes. Sexual jr -V« or use others’ physical bodies (whether the frustration is a difficult thing for all of us, real thing or how we think they’d look) as a but if we are trying to live a life of service method of personal satisfaction.

Homosexuality—Our Readers Respond -continuedfrompage 4 analogous to socio-cultural ethnic make-ups by some worldview; objective neutrality is Perhaps the greatest perplexity and can therefore be related to the Jew/ a myth. Who is to say that the secular concerning these articles is the particular Gentile debate of Paul and Jerusalem is religion of Western Enlightenment thought subtext on which each is based. Each author based on uncritical hermeneutics. However, should have any more influence over U.S. seems to believe that laws and theologies if Becker’s first principle, “Acknowledge laws than a Christian or Muslim-influenced that do not support non-celibate homosexual common participation in Christ’s body,” is paradigm? It seems obvious to many, relationships are discriminatory, oppressive, what God wanted in relation to sexual however, that the secular myth does indeed and immoral. They are also Fuller students. behavior then Paul was entirely misguided reign in Western culture. Even so, many Does it not seem strange that these students in writing 1 Corinthians 5:1-5. U.S. citizens are Christians opposed to pay thousands of dollars in tuition to Fuller Third, Allen Corben posits that homosexual behavior and have just as much and will gain degrees from a seminary that Christian thought on homosexuality should right to argue for their vision of healthy has codified “heterosexism” and repression not have a privileged status in America’s marriages and families as anyone else. Of in its faith statement and admissions secular state. It seems silly to believe that a course, I do concede that gay marriage now policies? Perhaps these issues should be of state - as an institution - can be Christian appears not an “if’ but a “when” in our concern to them? (i.e., have a relationship with God) any more nation; given the present cultural climate it than a corporation can be Christian. would be naive to believe otherwise. David A. Steinbrenner, (SOT, However, this does not mean that a state (or However, this does not mean it is right in M.Div.) is the Student Services a corporation) cannot be guided (or God’s eyes, or that the church should Coordinator at FTS Southwest. informed) by religiously-derived principles endorse the views of the wider society on and ethics. In fact, a state has to be informed this occasion. the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp - page 9

Sexuality and the Scriptures - continued, from page 1______

When God created the physical because they are the worst of all sins, but afternoon together at the park or beach, or universe, including human beings, he because they have to do with the core of going out to dinner. It’s just one of many pronounced it “good.” But there are uses of our own identities as well as how we regard ways of relating, and some seem to think our sexuality that are “not good.” Romans and treat others. How we behave sexually sex can be treated as casually as one picks 1, for example, testifies that one affront to manifests our understandings of others, up a cell phone for a chat. Most movies and God’s good creation is the “exchange” of ourselves, and the significance of our lives television shows have a hard time picturing those male-female sexual relations for before God. married sex as romantic or exciting, but they same-sex relations. Such relationships do manage to make virtually every other sexual not properly image the creation of male and relationship—whether casual sex on the female for each other. Although the Bible first date or sleeping with someone else’s does not address issues such as sexual spouse—appear quite inviting. abuse, these are examples of the perversion Consequently, while we have learned full of our sexuality in part because they do not well that our sexuality is good and a part of foster mutuality and union but are rather who we are, we have drawn the illogical expressions of rage and hostility, of control conclusion that our sexual identity and and manipulation of others. Prostitution is desire must therefore be expressed the use of another as object, without whenever and wherever opportunity is commitment to the other as partner. Yet Paul given. Indeed, a common argument today writes that to be joined to a prostitute is to seems to be that it is harmful not to express “become one flesh” with her. A prostitute ourselves, as if restraint were some sort of is not an object but a person, and the use of denial that we are sexual or that sex is good. any person as an object is a misuse of The Scriptures bear witness to just the sexuality. Pornography could easily be opposite reality. In the Bible, most placed in the same category. references to sexuality place sexual It is striking that much of the Biblical behavior not in the category of “expression” material regarding sexuality and human or “intimacy” but in the categories of union sexual relations is found in contexts where and commitment. That is to say, sexual something has gone wrong. Again and In spite of its witness to the potential relationship with another signals that one again the Scriptures witness to the power misuse of sexuality, the Bible does not have is both joined with and committed to the of sexual desire, including its destructive a negative view of the body or sexuality. other. Echoing the words of Genesis, Paul power, whether the problem is David’s lust We are to present our bodies, our selves, as writes that whoever sleeps with a prostitute for Bathsheba or a Corinthian Christian a “living sacrifice before God” (Romans “becomes one body with her” (1 Cor 6:16). sleeping with his stepmother. In other 12:1). We are to “glorify God in our bodies.” It is, in essence, as if one is married to words, the Bible indirectly witnesses that The body is a temple, the dwelling place, another in the act of having sex with that sexuality is often sexuality gone amok. That of God’s Holy Spirit. One’s conduct, person—a supposition that would make a in itself ought to tell us something. It is not including quite specifically one’s sexual lot of people today, including many that sexuality in and of itself is bad or conduct, is therefore to be appropriately Christians, guilty of polygamy. wrong, but that misuse and abuse of our holy, given over to the glorification and Nonetheless, sexual intercourse is an act of sexuality are common human problems. We honor of God (1 Cor 6:18-20). In Hebrews commitment. That is the appropriate context also learn that our sexuality and sexual 13:4 we read, “Let marriage be held in honor for the expression of our sexuality. That is behavior matter to God. among all, and let the marriage bed be what makes it good. Promiscuity not only Sexuality is so easily abused and undefiled; for God will judge the immoral denies and defiles this commitment to the misused because we are persons with and adulterous.” That injunction is other, it is in a profound way a squandering bodies, and our bodies are equipped with sandwiched between a command to take and dissipation of one’s soul, so that there gender and desire. There is no way of care of prisoners and those who are is eventually no self left to give or commit relating to each other that does not in some mistreated, and another not to become to anyone. Just so, promiscuity also way entail our sexuality. Of course, the same lovers of money. In other words, marriage dishonors the wisdom of the creator who might be said of speech: we are persons with and sexual relationships belong to the made us male and female. the capacity to speak and to address each Christian way of life that includes helping other through speech. Note the list of vices the needy and serving God rather than that has to do with communication — mammon. For the authors of Scripture, our gossip, lying, deceitfulness, angry speech, sexual conduct has to do with the way we Dr. Marianne Meye Thomp­ foul talk. Those things which most deeply live our lives before God. son is a professor o f New Tes­ tament Interpretation. constitute who we are, are also those things For modems, by contrast, sex is at best that are most easily, constantly, and about intimacy and at worst one of many regularly abused — by all of us. Hence, means of getting to know each other—like “sexual sins” are to be taken seriously not having a conversation, or spending an page 10 - the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp Sex and the Historian -continuedfrom page 1 “...[begin] by telling the truth about the kind of chastity you’re thinking about. can only seem more This wasn’t our high school ideal, that so—and it was the the power of sexual desire for good young people should be chaste until and latter practice that and ill, and recognize its constant only within marriage. No, the medieval provoked reconsidera­ ideal for chastity was that even Christian tions at an extremely presence in the midst of our husbands and wives should aspire to such a early moment in the community life.” degree of sexual self-control and personal Reformation. In 1522, sacrifice that eventually they might go only two years after his influential treatise Reformers, like their forebears, were keenly without sexual intercourse altogether. This on Christian freedom, Martin Luther wrote aware of the potential of sex to introduce ideal was derived from 1 Cor. 7:5: “Do not another work entitled “On the Estate of chaos into family, church, and society. refuse one another except perhaps by Marriage.” In this treatise, Luther felt Is it really any different for us? The agreement for a season, that you may devote compelled to address a host of issues, Reformers did not have to face the barrage yourselves to prayer; but then come together including the goodness of marriage and the of flagrant sexuality in the media and in the again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of unnaturalness, in his view, of clerical marketplace that surrounds us today. self-control.” Writers since Jerome had celibacy. For Luther, a vow of celibacy had Advertising begs us to indulge our desires, found an obvious implication here, namely, no special significance or merit in God’s and buy. Movies and television show us that God regards prayer as the better use of sight, and it was wrong to regard married models of allurement, temptation, and fall. a couple’s time than, well, you know. Christians as second-class citizens if they And whenever ‘The Puritans” shows up as Ideally, a couple would work toward greater were, in fact, following their calling. To be a category on Jeopardy, it’s always to and greater expressions of piety, which sure, neither Luther nor the other Reformers highlight them as strict, legalistic, and might be gauged by their mutual abstinence believed lifelong celibacy was impossible, repressive— not, surprisingly, as those who and sexual control. Unromantic as a chaste for scripture clearly suggests this path for aspired to self-control and a godly family marriage might seem to our own materialist some. But early Protestants were acutely life. So, is the solution really to endorse the sensibilities, the practice clearly worked for aware that the demand for clergy celibacy politics of pleasure, of gratification and self­ some medieval couples. often led to hypocrisy, clandestine gratification? As one whose college career On the other hand, the medieval church cohabitation, wounded consciences, and began during the supposed “sexual revo­ was equally concerned over the potential for moral disaster—indeed, some Reformers, lution” of the 1960s, I would suggest that uncontrolled desire to subvert and destroy as former priests, had been at the center of the gains of today’s “freer” morality are in a marriage. Here, a different text was at their own personal sexual disasters! large part illusory. Sex before and outside work, the one that instructs a husband to So the Protestant take on sexuality of marriage is no less chaotic and destructive “give to his wife her conjugal rights, and came to differ significantly from that of the than it ever was. likewise the wife to her husband.” This text medieval church. Celibacy was simply not Consequently, I am grieved by the from 1 Cor. 7:3 trumped the ideal in v. 5. seen as the default setting for any human cowardly silence of churches today, as well To be sure, it was morally good and being. Again, Paul caught the mood: of many Christian parents, who refuse to meritorious to abstain from sex. Indeed, it “because of the temptation to immorality, give positive guidance and who abandon was obligatory to abstain from sex before each man should have his own wife and parishioners young and old to the tutelage and on holy days, including prior to taking each woman her own husband.” But if early of the marketplace. We must do better, Communion. But it was seen as an even Protestants believed that human sexuality beginning by telling the truth about the greater imperative for one partner in a ought to lead to marriage, marriage itself is power of sexual desire for good and ill, and marriage to accommodate the sexual desire about more than sex: marriage is a model recognize its constant presence in the midst of the other partner, regardless of of the church, in which friendship and of our community life. Before we dismiss circumstance or setting, for fear that the charity reign and children are nurtured. In Christians of a bygone era as repressive or uncontrollable urges of the first partner other words, the Reformers worked hard to intrusive or as opposed to pleasure, we would lead to fornication and a violation of rehabilitate the ideals for Christian would do well to ponder why they were that the marriage vow. Thus, though there were marriage, and they often worked equally way, whether they were blinded or wise, and many medieval theologians who wrote hard to see that Christian marriages whether our churches and ourselves are any admiringly of marriage as a school for survived. less broken than they were. Repression and friendship and mutuality between spouses, The shift in thinking about marriage intrusiveness are unpleasant words to us: but a significant part of pastoral advice in this that came with the Reformation could be surely our generation could benefit from less era still seems to have amounted to this: seen by us as a reality check, if by that we of silence and more of restraint, guidance, sexual intercourse should be kept to a mean an acknowledgment of the power of and intervention. minimum or avoided, even at great cost; but sexual desire in the normal human life and intercourse outside the bonds of marriage an attempt to conform the church anew to should be avoided at any cost. what they saw as scripture’s more realistic Dr. John L. Thompson is a pro­ If the medieval attitude toward married norms. Yet the Reformation was not an fessor o f Historical Theology. sex seems somewhat repressive and absolute break with medieval Catholicism intrusive to us, mandatory clerical celibacy or even with patristic and ascetic ideals. The the Semi - Week Seven - Spring 2004 - Fuller Theological Seminary - www.fuller.edu/student_life/SEMI/semi.asp - page 11 Campus Events and Announcements Financial Aid Taize Prayer: 9:00 pm, at Brookside Country Club at the Rose Harvesters Scholarship. Deadline May 31. Thurs, May 13, 5:15-5:45 pm, Prayer Garden Bowl. Tickets are on sale after Wed Chapel out­ Must be a full time student with a 3.0 GPA or A time of prayer in the style ofTaize. This medi­ side Travis every week for $12.50 for graduates, higher. Must demonstrate financial need. Must tative service is facilitated by Tim Howerzyl and $17.50 for guests, and $30.00 for couples. 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