Sex180: The Next Revolution - Softcover

Chip Ingram; Walker, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801045290 ISBN 13: 9780801045295

Publisher: Baker Books, 2005

Synopsis

Young adults are fed up with our sex-saturated culture. They realize that there's more to sex than what the media feeds them, and they realize that there's more to responsibility that "just wait until you're married." Youth want to have God's perspective. Not only that, they want to show their peers there's a better way to relate to the opposite sex. It's time for a revolution. A 180-degree turn is underway.

Sex 180 is a guide to that revolution. It's more than a book that preaches abstinence before marriage. Sex 180 shows teens what's wrong with the way people talk and think about sex and challenges them to think differently. With solid biblical teaching, interactive sidebars, and real-life stories, teens, parents, and youth leaders will start to think about sex in a whole new way.

About this title

About the Authors

Chip Ingram is the founder and CEO of Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. A pastor for over thirty-five years, Chip is the author of many books, including Discover Your True Self, Marriage That Works, Culture Shock, The Real Heaven, The Real God, The Invisible War, and Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships. Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four grown children and twelve grandchildren and live in California.

Tim Walker is the lead editor for XP3, an online student curriculum and strategy from The reThink Group. A graduate of Lee University, Tim and his wife, Jennifer, have three children and live in Woodstock, Georgia.

From the Back Cover

Sex is everywhere . . .

On TV. In movies. On the Web. In magazines. In high school and even youth group.

Yet even with all of this exposure, a big part of the sex story is not being told-a whole dimension that goes way beyond the traditional answers. If you're fed up with our sex-saturated culture and are tired of being told to "just wait until you're married," then check out the biblical understanding of sexuality. It's something totally different. A full 180 degrees different. It's Sex 180 and it's a revolution.

Dive in and hang on, because this book will turn everything you know about sex upside down. Turn the pages and join the rebellion against our culture's view of sex and grab onto what God really says about it all. You'll relate to the opposite sex in a whole new way, and you'll never be the same again. Maybe your world won't be either.

From the Inside Flap

Sampler Copy

So what is Sex 180?

Well, it's not another T-shirt wearing, jewelry-clad movement. It's not another ad slogan or big stadium rally about abstinence. Sex 180 is a book about sex for people who realize that there's something wrong with the way we think and talk about sex.

The truth is that young adults are fed up with our sex-saturated culture. They realize that there's more to sex than what the media feeds them, and they realize that there's more to responsibility than "just wait until you're married." Today's teens and young adults want something different-totally different. One hundred and eighty degrees different. They want a revolution.

Sex 180 is the guidebook to that revolution. With solid biblical teaching, real-life stories, and interactive sidebars, the authors show us God's perspective on sex. As a result, teens, youth leaders, and parents will start to think about sex in a whole new way.


Chip Ingram is the president and CEO of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries. He is the author of I Am with You Always; Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships; and God: As He Longs for You to See Him.

Tim Walker is the senior editor of YouthWalk magazine, a monthly devotional magazine published by Walk Thru the Bible Ministries. He also serves as a youth volunteer at his church in Woodstock, Georgia.

Reviews

Grade 9 Up–The 180 of the title refers to experiencing an about-face revolution toward personal sexual ethics and behavior, based on a biblical understanding of sexuality. Ingram is president of a Christian broadcast and teaching ministry, and Walker is senior editor of YouthWalk magazine, published by the same evangelical organization. Abstinence is the clear message here, whether guarding ones virginity until marriage or forsaking current sexual activity to become chaste once again. The authors write with gentle humor and obvious compassion and avoid slipping into the too cool vernacular that tries too hard to appeal to teens. Including young peoples comments and questions garnered from the YouthWalk Web site and other first-person interactions, they recognize the raging hormones of their readers, as well as the go ahead and do it message common in popular media, and share stories of their own struggles. The primary reason they offer for choosing abstinence is to please God, who has shown in the Bible that sex is sacred and serious. Practical suggestions for remaining chaste within a range of relationships are offered. Kindly written and well developed, Sex 180 may be a useful book in public libraries to balance out the spectrum of opinion on teen sexual behavior. Eleanor Ayers Its Okay to Say No: Choosing Sexual Abstinence (Rosen, 1997) covers much of the same material regarding the benefits of abstinence without making reference to religion.–Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS
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Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801045290
• ISBN 13: 9780801045295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224