1 Corinthians 7:1,7 -Celibacy- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2024-05-05

Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service · May 6, 2024 · 1h 7m

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks 1 Corinthians 7:1,7, teaching that celibacy is good and a God-given gift for some but not the rule for everyone, with Jesus and Paul as examples. He contrasts celibacy and marriage, urges purity, and warns against fornication, pornography, and the sexual relativism infiltrating the church while affirming marriage as God’s design for intimacy, procreation, partnership and spiritual witness. Explaining verse 3, he stresses mutual sexual responsibility between spouses with only a temporary exception for fasting and prayer, and cautions that withholding intimacy is a…