Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist: the moderns pretend that nothing else exists.

We are half hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

How often do Christians think of sexual matters as something second-rate. Never, never, never should we do so, according to the Word of God. The whole man is made to love God; each aspect of man's nature is to be given its proper place. That includes the sexual relationship, that tremendous relationship of one man to one woman. At the very beginning God brought Eve to man.

A number of homosexuals and lesbians have come to L'Abri where they hope they can get help. You must first of all show compassion and not act as thought this sin were greater than other sins, or as though you are superior since you are not caught up in it. But at the same time you must point out that the practice of homosexuality is wrong. It is not wrong in away that removes them from the human race or wrong in a way that makes them worse than other sins would do. But its practice is wrong under the absolutes of God. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 105-6