About 3 weeks ago I blogged here about how Christian's are kidding themselves if they believe Sexual Abstinence before marriage is happening in a significant way in Christian Communities.
Interestingly I was listening to a pod cast of the God Journey yesterday (which is the best pod cast around for Organic Christians in my opinion) and they were discussing basically the same issue.
According to them, new statistics have been released from a 10 year study of teenagers who took the 'chastity ball pledge' in 1996. From memory 88% failed to fulfill the pledge, which is worse than the standard sexual rate monitored in the States.
The Guys on the pod cast had an interesting conclusion as to why this had happened, pointing out that it was based on fear and using the scripture from Paul, that where the Law abounds, sin abounds even more. They had some great insights into perhaps better options followers in Christ should be taking instead of chastity rings, balls or pledges which have shown to be complete failures
To get more detail check out CHILDREN, MORALITY AND LEARNING TO SAY YES
