I can but you can't

Double standards! There are a wonderful thing, aren't they? jk. Personally I hate double standards, they just bug me, but I noticed that even if we don't realize it we all have them. The only thing is that not everyone vocalizes them. But my point of this post is that I really can't stand when someone says " well I believe that it's ok if a guy does this but a girl can't". The main thing that brought this up was when someone said that they thought that purity was a good thing for girls but that it was kinda pointless for guys. Yes, this person is a guy and no this person is not a Christian. At this time I brought up the fact that unless he was plaining on compromising his purity with another guy or himself then he would be taking away the purity of a girl and he just said that he thought being pure was a good thing for girls. His answer to this was well i believe that its actually not that important for anyone and that if the girl was willing to give up her purity then thats her deal and I'm not gonna say no. I also asked him why he believed purity wasn't that important. He said because sex is an important part of all relationships and with out it you couldn't have a good connection. I just kinda laughed at this because I have heard it many times. Next, this was probably my favorite part of our conversation. He added that he believed that if a guy views porn thats ok, because its natural, normal and every guy does it. When I asked him so what if a girl did, he said well that would be odd and that would be wrong, because thats not normal. So all in all this just really ticked me off because the whole time he just acted like guys can do whatever they want but girls have certain rules. The one thing I still find funny about this conversation is that he contradicted himself a lot, but when I pointed that out he would make a bunch of excuses and add another point into the discussion. Just to clarify we do not believe that viewing porn is ok for anyone, mainly because its definitely not of God.

Are You Willing To Stand?!

If we expect to be a generation that is pure and separate for the work of Christ, we are going to have to help each other out! Guys, your purity is directly affected by the purity of the girls that you come in contact with. Girls, same goes for us. We need to be guarding each other's purity! Guys, If a girl walks into church dressed all hoochie, that doesn't affect her purity. She is not lusting off herself. So you should be encouraging the young Christian ladies you know to practice modesty in our culture! Ladies if you are dressing like that and making your Christian brother lust, the last thing that is going to be on his mind is making sure he treats you with the respect you deserve! What we need is ladies who are going to go against everything that society tells us a girl should be and go to the word of God. Then, we need young men who are going to stand behind these ladies and support them, not only with words but with actions. If you know you do not have self control then stand up and tell her, " I don't think we should be alone!" We as brothers and sisters in Christ need to love each other enough to stand for truth in each others lives, so that none of us will fall away from all that God has called us to.