Take off point…
Okay, okay, I know many people find the word ‘sex’ offensive (for reasons that I can’t understand). I apologize, please forgive me for what I’m about to do. I’m about to use that word over and over again, so don’t get mad. Have you ever been involved in youth ministry? If you have, you’ll discover that about 70% of the issues that’ll come to your desk are sex related, and/or relationship connected. This is only natural. After all, there’s nothing we (myself included) want more than to love and to be loved in return. Abi na? However, we often are not able to give the kind of love we want to others, neither are we able to get the kind of love we want from others. Why? Come with me, let’s reason together.
When I was still working inside the campus (AAU), I discovered that many young ladies had fallen in and out of love for several reasons. Some had had abortions, some had had their hearts broken, some had become cold, others just didn’t believe in love anymore. There were also guys who could not understand why their girlfriends refused to get sexual with them. They wanted someplace where they could ease the tension of the attraction they felt in their various relationships. A few were willing to understand with their girlfriends when the rule of ‘no sex’ came up. Still there was a lower percentage that insisted that their girlfriends were actually the ones clamouring for sex, not they. But the central question remains “why all this fuss about sex?”
Okay, let’s look at these issues (if we can), and try to reason around them by God’s grace…
Rev. Fr. Oselumhense K. Anetor
