FAQs: Big Questions from Our Hearts and Minds What’s the Big Deal About Sex? Song of Solomon 1:15–2:17

Memory Verse For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:4–5

Learning Goals Explore: Students will understand that God has designed sex to be desirable and enjoyable only between a husband and wife. Transform: Students will determine how they can guard their own sexual desires until marriage.

Discussion At what point does sexual desire go from being good to being sinful? When is the right time for love to be stirred up and awakened? How do we know when that time is? How possible is it to separate love from sex? How does one keep them intimately connected? How big of an issue is the biblical understanding of sex in our day and age? Why is a biblical understanding of sex important to our spiritual development and holiness?

Key Study 1. Intimacy between husband and wife is meant to be desired. Song of Solomon 1:15–2:6

Key Study 2. Sex between husband and wife is meant to be protected. Song of Solomon 2:7

Key Study 3. Sex between a husband and a wife is meant to be enjoyed in God’s timing. Song of Solomon 2:8–17