Teaching and

Learning Purity

These resources will help clarify the scope and content of purity curricula like the one led by Luke Overbey.

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• Purity Code - Youth Group Curriculum, developed by Homeword, which "seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generation."

• Sexual Purity Curriculum developed by the Instruction Resource Center Linking Educators (CIRCLE), "a comprehensive source for locating the ever-expanding array of resources for Seventh-day Adventist educators as they continue the teaching ministry of Jesus Christ."

  • God created sex to strengthen the bond between husband and wife and to give us a demonstration of our relationship to Him. However, at every turn we see Satan marketing his cheapened version of God’s plan.

• "Sex, Guilt, and Shame" by Michael Snetzner

• 5 Questions to Ask before You Agree to a Date

• 10 Questions to Ask on Your First Date

• Christian Guys: 10 Ways to Survive the Summer

• 5 Things Youth Pastors Should Teach on Purity

  • Jesus makes us pure, and we should consistently thank Him for that! As the book of Romans teaches, His righteousness was imputed to us. God no longer looks upon us and sees our sin—He sees Jesus! We can now live in light of that fact.

• Read an excerpt of Pure Inside: The Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free and listen to Linda Kay Klein reflect on the "deep, long-lasting shame" caused by churches that claim women and girls are responsible for the sexual desires of men.

• "The Only Conversations We Had Were around Purity Pledges," a three-part series of women who grew up evangelical but are no longer religious talking about the role sex has played in their lives

• "Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture" by Amanda Barbee