Joe Beam’s Ministry to promote Hot Sex
It is kind of interesting to see where this surfaced to me….MSNBC. Some of the highlights include…
But then Beam, a portly, silver-haired basso profundo dressed in khaki slacks, a sweater vest and brown tasseled loafers that make him look like a retired country-club golf pro, walks to the front of the room and proceeds to tell the men in the audience how to make their semen taste better.
Sweet stuff works, he says, which provides a built-in excuse because "then you can say, ‘I’m eating this cake for you, baby!’"
Welcome to the world of hot Christian love.
The San Diego Church of Christ is Beam’s sponsoring group today, but as far as he is concerned it could be any conservative Christian denomination. The message would be the same: Married Christians ought to be having more — and hotter — sex.
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Beam sees this attitude every day. Women tell him: “I feel like I am sinning when I make love to my husband.”
“They want help,” he tells the assembled crowd at the Sheraton. At least a score of heads nod in recognition. “It’s hard,” he continues, “to make the transition from ‘sex is bad’ when you are young and single to ‘sex is good’ when you are married.” In fact, “sex is the most wonderful gift God ever gave Christians.”
Beam, who is studying for a sexology Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in Australia, is all about shining the light. He and a few others like him have concluded that conservative Christians can cope with America’s hypersexualized culture by being given permission to pluck much of its fruit.
Read the rest here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13834042/
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October 17th, 2006 at 10:48 am
This is in reference to Joe Beam. I believe that what he is doing is an abomination and little more than an excuse for “Christian porn” in the church. Is this the new craze for “Christ centered adult entertainment?” Sure, there is some need for sexual advice and therapy for Christian couples within marriage, but there are plenty of less obtrusive resources available for that. Right now there is a sexual revolution going on in the world, and the Church is trying to figure out where they fit in. Yes, there are many things in the Bible where God does not lay down all the rules for what Christians can and cannot do (like the subjects of masturbation or what sort of sex acts are “Biblical” for married couples during love making). But with so much porn on the internet and everywhere else today, our society is saturated with open sexual perversion — to promote this kind of thing in the church IN ANY FORM (that eroticism is good for Christians and we should “go for it all,” and as stated on MSNBC in Joe Beam’s seminar — how Christian wives can make their husbands semen taste better during oral sex), this opening the door for Satan and even demonic influence to lay hold in the lives of many of God’s saints. The sort of sexual acts Joe Beam encourages Christian husbands and wives to perform, is the sort of stuff you see in hard core porn movies these days. Today, the statistics prove that an absolutely HUGE percentage of Christian men (and even pastors) are hooked on porn on the internet – looking at dirty pictures and movies and masturbating. And even Christian women are hooked on various fantasies. There are now a number of Christian websites offering all sorts of sex toys and other paraphernalia EXCLUSIVELY for Christians. Right now the church door is opening just a crack. Not far behind what Joe Beam is promoting, will be so called “kingdom relationships” (such as took place a few years back at a major church in Atlanta), where people can enjoy sex with others within the body of Christ in ways that are mutually loving and “not harmful.” Or how about making Christian porn movies as an alternative to what the world is offering (of course only married couples would perform the sex acts to start out with)? These movies, could enhance the sexual experience of other Christian couples and “glorify Christ” in the process. After all, the church “needs to provide an alternative,” especially for our younger folk who will be looking forward to the joys of marriage. (In fact, right now the website, http://www.sexinchrist.com, is promoting this very idea of a proposal for “Christian porn”). There is no end to where all this could lead, people can try to justify according to scripture whatever perversion they want (including gay marriage). I am sick and tired of people using the Song of Solomon as an excuse for anything goes. The New Testament nowhere even hints at the idea that Christian eroticism is a good idea. Sex is a natural act like eating or anything else we do as humans, it is God’s way of bringing people into this world, and man has always reproduced for centuries without all the explosive sexual phenomenon and erotica that we are witnessing today in society (even the puritans back in the 1700’s were having babies). GOD DOES NOT WANT HIS CHILDREN MAKING SEX THE BIG THING IN THEIR LIVES, IT CAN BECOME A WORSHIP THING OF THE FLESH. Here is something else to think about in relation to what God thinks about sex. Something very plain in scripture that no one seems to mention. There are umpteen verses in the Bible that show that celibacy and ABSTINENCE FROM SEX IS VERY PLEASING TO GOD. Passage after passage talks about the unmarried being highly honorable to the Lord, and to stay single is better for some people than marriage. Jesus in Mat 19:12 talked about those who make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom. In 1 Cor 7:34 it talks about the virgin being “more pure in body and in spirit.” The apostle Paul said that it is actually a good thing for a man not to touch a woman (1 Cor 7:1). WHY ISN’T JOE BEAM TALKING ABOUT THIS WEIGHT OF SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE AWAY FROM SEX AND TOWARDS GOD EXCLUSIVELY. I will say it point blank. The worship of sex in any form is IDOLATRY, even in marriage. Christian rock music has now come into the church and Christian porn in various forms is not going to be far behind. In the days ahead you may even find a “mature section” when you go into some of your local Christian book stores (demand for what sells will always win out). We may witness abominations in the Christian church in the next ten to twenty years that will be mind-boggling now, but then become acceptable. These are indeed the last days. May Jesus help us all.
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January 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I think it’s silly that the comment above says that helping couples enjoy oral sex will lead to demons taking them over. That is the silliest thing I have ever heard.
Joe Beam is helping married couples fulfill each other and not feel guilty about enjoying each other’s body. God gave sex as a gift and it’s idiotic for people like the person above to condemn Joe for simply telling people that within marriage they can enjoy sex with each other!
Thank you Joe!
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February 12th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I have removed the e-mail addresses from the posters on this story. People are e-mailing them for their comments. If you disagree or agree, please post your disagreement, don’t e-mail the commenter.
Jeff
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
To the Heather above, not me, the other one: Oh, my, we are prudish, aren’t we? Who do you think created sex in the first place?
Don’t for goodness sakes go visit http://www.themarriagebed.com. Or read Song of Solomon. The evil sex demon might get you.
Seriously, I think Christians in general (not just the above commenter) need to lighten up about this stuff! Oral sex (and the like) is not only performed in pornos, and perhaps if these pastors who are hooked on porn had better sex in their marriages they wouldn’t have that problem in the first place!
I have never heard of Joe Beam before now, so I can’t really comment on his particular ministry, but the attitudes in general are terrible! Sorry about the harsh words – this is an issue that I have strong opinions about.
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Sorry, got the names of the commenters mixed up – it’s Del that my comment was directed to.
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