{"id":6026,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/blessing-sex\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:38","slug":"blessing-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/blessing-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"BLESSING\n  SEX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Blessings; Fidelity; Husbands; Intimacy; Love; Pleasure; Spirituality; Wives<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 2:24; Song of Songs 4; 7; 1 Corinthians 7:1\u20137<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A 2006 survey conducted by Beliefnet.com indicates a link between sex and spirituality. According to the survey results, a majority of religious people do not see sex as guilt inducing or sinful, but rather as a divine blessing. Some of the results of the survey:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;people who see sex as at least part of their spiritual lives: 55 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;women who see sex as a gift from God: 46 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;men who see sex as a gift from God: 51 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;people who have prayed before or after sex: 38 percent<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014\u201cBeliefwatch: God\u2019s Gift,\u201d <i>Newsweek<\/i> (October 22, 2006)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>PART 20: MINISTRY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Blessings; Fidelity; Husbands; Intimacy; Love; Pleasure; Spirituality; Wives References: Genesis 2:24; Song of Songs 4; 7; 1 Corinthians 7:1\u20137 A 2006 survey conducted by Beliefnet.com indicates a link between sex and spirituality. According to the survey results, a majority of religious people do not see sex as guilt inducing or sinful, but rather as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/blessing-sex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BLESSING<br \/>\n  SEX&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}