Fifty Shades of Lies

E. L. James has written a runaway best-selling novel entitled Fifty Shades of Grey.  It is about a literature student, Ana, who interviews a wealthy married man, a tycoon who practices sadomasochistic sex. He seduces the young woman, and together they enter into a torrid affair that includes bondage and just about every sadistic aberration of sexual expression that can turn a woman into a piece of meat.

The book is now a movie, released this past Valentine’s Day weekend. It is drawing long lines and full houses in our no-holds-barred liberated sexual society. And it is sure to lure a whole generation of men and women down a path that is a dead end to human fulfillment. Such as follow the book and movie’s lead will be past 50 years of age when they wake up one day and realize the lies they’ve lived.

If you must go see this garbage, remember a few things.

Sex is not a bed for the night but a home for the ages.

Lust can’t wait to take; love can’t wait to give.

You won’t get what you want in life by denigrating another human being.

Some people reduce sex to nothing more than a well-executed belch.

Sex is a wonderful servant, but a cruel master.

If you think Christians don’t know anything about sexual pleasure, read The Song of Solomon in the Old Testament.

Call me narrow, call me a prude, call me hopelessly old-fashioned, or call me worse if you like, but I know there is a God and He created sex between a man and a woman for marriage. The biblical laws God has built around sexual passion are to keep us from getting hurt, from being crippled. And they are to free us for the joys and pleasures of a lifelong marriage.

I have sought to keep God’s boundaries in marriage 42 years now. What do I have to show for spending my passions so? A loving wife, happy memories, three children, seven grandchildren, and a tender compassion that is still ongoing. I am a man who cannot wait to come home at the end of a day.

What do you have to show for how you’re spending yours? That’s a question asked in fifty shades of reality.

The Reverend Stephen Crotts is pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Charlotte Court House, VA. He is also the director of the Carolina Study Center, Inc., a campus ministry, located in Chapel Hill, NC. Pastor Crotts may be reached at carolinastudycenter@msn.com.