Kinsey and the Christian continued be doing things more worth-while. When a man’s condition is critical and he is near death, it is no time to set up projects for counting spots on butterfly wings. It is time to rush assistance to the dying man. So it is with believers. We live in a world where many are facing a Christless eternity. Our main efforts should be directed toward telling oth ers about One who has died for' them that they might live eternally.
fact, the consecrated believer charac teristically has better mental health and better physical health than the non-believer. Because our trust is in Christ, we have peace of mind. Due to* patterns of Christian living, we do not have many of the habits which are detrimental to our bodies. Hence, other things being equal, Christians are much more likely to be more powerful and responsive physically. When a person yields his life to Christ, he is given a new nature. This is described in Second Corinthians 5:- 17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Just a short time ago I was coun seling with a young man who was in his early twenties. He was serious ly considering his need of salvation. During the conversation he said he was afraid that he couldn’t change his ways enough to live the life that he knew he should live. Little did this fellow realize that if he gave his heart to Christ, he would receive a new nature, and that this new na ture would cause him to want new and different things. Men and wom en who are in love with Christ are not in love with illicit sex relations. Their new natures crave things of the Holy Spirit. When a person puts his trust in the Saviour, God calls him to a higher and more satisfying plane of living. We read in Romans 12:1: “ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mer cies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, accept able unto God, which is your reason able service.” God wants our bodies. When he has our bodies, he has all of us be cause every attribute we have is housed in our bodies. It is interesting to note in this regard that when we are saved, we are saved all over. Our salvation affects our hearts, our souls, our minds, and our entire physical body. Our new natures are not fac tory rebuilt, nor are they recondi tioned. Our new natures are born of God and they are completely new. When God calls us to higher and more satisfying planes of living, he enables us to meet the demands. In Ezekiel 11:19 God says “ . . . I will put a new spirit within you . . .” In Philippians 4:13 the believer is assured of the new power which comes with salvation: “ I can do all things through Christ which streng- theneth me.” God never asks us to do anything which he does not empower us to do. That is the great difference between the saved and the unsaved. Many people want to do better, but only Christian believers are furnished continued on page 33 THE KING'S BUSINESS
came to see the one whose life had been changed. It’s still that way to day! People may not be so interested in God or Christ, but they are inter ested in other people. Evidently that is the way God has planned it. We attract each other and when the un saved notices another person whose life has been miraculously changed by salvation, the believer is then in
No doubt Christians constitute the best sexually-adjusted groups in the world. Their testimonies and their stable home-lives prove that. No one but husbands and wives who are joined in Christ can know the joys of all other unions in marriage. The August 17, 1953 issue of the Time magazine did report the find ings of one study made by Missouri Synod Lutherans. The study covers a total of 3,405 lay people, 946 men and women, plus 376 pastors, most of them married. Although the full report is not expected until 1954, the following findings show the great dif ference between men who are mem bers of Christian groups, as contrast ed with Kinsey’s non-churchgoers in the same age-bracket. The Missouri Synod Lutherans found that only 4 per cent of their married men had had extra-marital relations, while Kinsey found that 44 per cent of his married men of grade school education had had extra-mari tal relations (see figure 1). Whereas Kinsey found 90 per cent of grade school level males, 80 per cent at hiarh school level, and 45 per cent at college level had experienced pre-marital relations, only 16 per cent of young Lutheran bachelors had had the same experiences (see figure 2 ). It should be pointed out that there are two factors which warrant men tioning here. First, some of the men who belonged to Christian groups may not have been Christians. We all know of people who attend church, but who are not saved, and in whose lives Christ does not reign. Secondly, if there were any Christian men who had had illicit sex experiences, they mav have had them before giving their lives to Christ. The Christian Believer and His Personal Life No doubt, the greatest attraction to salvation is its product — the changed life. It is recorded in the Scriptures that after Christ had per formed a miracle in the life of a person, the throngs came-to see; but they didn’t come to see Christ. They 12
TH E AUTHOR Dr. Clyde M. Narramore, educator and psychologist, holds the doctor of education degree from Columbia University, New York. He serves as Consultant in Research and Guidance Office of the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Narramore is a talented speaker and writer and is in constant demand as a discussion leader and lecturer for various organizations. His popular page of ques tions and answers entitled, "Talking It Over" appears each month in The King's Business magazine. He has met with unusual success in his unique service as consultant to evan gelical churches in organizing splendid programs of parent discussion groups, sex education, and family relations. During summers Dr. Narramore usually joins the faculty of a college, or appears at Bible conferences. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization with which he is associated. a position to witness to that friend about the gospel. Unless the world can see a changed life, they aren’t so apt to be interested in salvation. The Scriptures do not indicate that Christians are totally exempt from trials, testings and temptations. After one is saved he still has his dynamic body functions. These are God-given and should be God-controlled. In
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