January 4, 2015: A New Sexuality – Landon Lynch

What does it mean to live out a new sexuality? It’s interesting to note that the Song of Songs was revolutionary in its day as it suggested a new sexuality. You see, this wasn’t the first love poem ever written. In fact, it was quite like many other love poems that existed long before. There are love poems discovered from Egypt that were the same. And from Syria. And from Mesopotamia. But Song of Songs was different. Why?

Because these other songs were about sex for the gods, sex as ritual, sex as something to unleash divine power into the world so that the gods would bring fertility into the world and cause crops to grow. In other words – sex was something that had to be done.

But for the writer of Song of Songs – sex was something God gave to us. This is one of the first poems of its kind that expresses a deep monotheistic belief in a God who is not angry, but a God who has given us a gift. So if we are to stay true to one of the many themes of the Song of Songs we have to ask, “What does a new sexuality look like for us today?”

This will be the conclusion of this series … and it is the question we will attempt to answer for ourselves and our world.