If you aren’t able to watch this clip, an openly Christian teenager, Joe, (nick-named Teen Jesus) has a crush on former lead cheerleader and currently paralyzed Quinn Fabray. \u00a0(Before I go any further, KUDOS to Glee-creator Ryan Murphy and company for even having an openly Christian teenager on the show who is actually interested in living and loving like Christ! Super awesome!)<\/p>\n
Teen Jesus is conflicted because he is starting to have hard to control sexual feelings towards the beautiful, helpless Quinn and he goes to Glee Club-mate Sam for advice on how to deal with his sexual feelings in light of his desire to live a holy life that is pleasing to God — a.k.a. abstaining from sex until marriage, as the Bible teaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sam excuses his own sexual activity by saying, “When the Bible was written things were easier; there was no internet, no girls in short shorts!” \u00a0So he implores Teen Jesus, “[L]et’s be a new kind of Christian, one that prays and does right by people but understands that some of those rules are kind of old school.”<\/p>\n Teen Jesus protests and explains that abstaining from sex is a way of “putting the spiritual over the physical so you can feel closer to God.”<\/p>\n AND HERE COMES THE REVOLUTIONARY STATEMENT<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0Sam tells Teen Jesus: “All I know is, Quinn’s a great girl. But you’re going to have to decide:\u00a0do you wanna be closer to God or closer to her<\/em>?”<\/strong><\/p>\n OMGLEE<\/em> DID YOU CATCH THAT?! Seriously, for all of Sam’s explaining that there was such a thing as a “new kind of Christian” who can still basically do whatever (s)he wants and still be considered a “good Christian,” Sam was still able to articulate the main point about Christianity and sex before marriage: \u00a0it’s a choice between God and the person you’re lusting after. \u00a0Point-blank. Period. End of Story.<\/p>\n There is no getting around the fact that our sexual choices — whether abstinence, celibacy, or full-on engagement — are really choices between our will and God’s will. \u00a0And that statement was made on one of the most popular teen shows on television!<\/p>\n Seriously, I was like: And that wasn’t even the end of it! Just to solidify the point that bringing up the idea of a choice between God’s way and our own way was NOT an accident, the writers of Glee doubled down on the point in a scene between Teen Jesus and Quinn:<\/p>\n \n Teen Jesus explains to Quinn that he wants her to be his girlfriend but at the same time, his faith “means everything” to him. \u00a0But he explains that he’s confused, because when he’s with Quinn, he doesn’t care about “what God says about sins of the flesh,” he just wants to be next to her. \u00a0“You would give up your faith to be with me?” Quinn asks him, curiously. \u00a0“I don’t know.” He responds. “Are you asking me to?” \u00a0Quickly, she says, “No, never.” \u00a0He seems disappointed, thinking that it’s because she doesn’t like him that way. \u00a0She reassures him that’s not the case and that it’s just, “nice knowing that there’s something out there that can’t be lost.”<\/p>\n It’s a beautiful, REAL scene that many devoted Christians –from teenagers and beyond — struggle with daily. \u00a0And whether Teen Jesus or any other Christian fall down in that struggle is between them and God and wholly irrelevant to my larger point here.<\/p>\n Ryan Murphy and the Glee writers have a history of tackling mainstream issues through ground-breaking story-lines — from gay and lesbian teen relationships, to bullying, to suicide. \u00a0But on Tuesday night, at least 6.9 million households in this country —\u00a0not even including the millions like me who watched it the next day on HULU or DVR’d it —\u00a0heard the truth about what it means to be a Christian: making the choice between your love and desire for Christ and your love and desire for your own way. \u00a0Through this\u00a0Dance With Somebody <\/em>episode, millions of Christians had it reinforced for us that there is <\/em>actually a right way and a wrong way to do Christianity, and we have the God-given free will to make whatever choice we will as to whom we will serve: God or ourselves.<\/p>\n That’s pretty revolutionary, Glee. And yet another example of why I love you so!<\/p>\n For more on what Christ says about Sex and WHY, read this post: “Twisted: Why God’s ‘No Marriage, No Sex’ Rule is for Protection and Pleasure, Not Punishment<\/a><\/em>.”<\/p>\n “Therefore, I urge you,\u00a0brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,\u00a0holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>Do not conform\u00a0to the pattern of this world,\u00a0but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.\u00a0Then you will be able to test and approve what God\u2019s will is\u00a0\u2014his good, pleasing\u00a0and perfect will.” (Romans 12:1-2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Something MIND-BLOWING happened on Fox’s musical show Glee this week. \u00a0And no, it wasn’t the awesome tribute to the dearly departed Whitney Houston (though seriously, that was kind of amazing). \u00a0Did you catch it? 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