True Love Waits

(From the TLW website)

True Love Waits challenges teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence until marriage. Created by LifeWay Christian Resources, True Love Waits encourages moral purity by adhering to biblical principles. This youth-based international campaign utilizes positive peer pressure by encouraging those who make a commitment to refrain from pre-marital sex to challenge their peers to do the same.

(From Pastor Chris)

True Love Waits can be one of the most insignificant programs that teenagers can ever do. Insignificant because all too often, commitment cards are signed and purity tokens are given as a ritual that signifies a life of purity. However, purity is so much more than a ring. It is so much more than a 3×5 signed card. It’s more than a conversation, or a book ordered online. Purity is a lifestyle that begins in the heart through a sincere faith in Jesus Christ. It is taught through an 18 year conversation from parents, the type of conversation that never ends. It is emphasized through parental boundaries. It is practiced through wisdom in dress, actions, language, and choices. And it is demonstrated in all areas of life. Purity is so much more than a ring and a card.

In February, (the love month), I will teach a series on Purity to our students, explaining the things that I just wrote about. I will also be challenging parents to begin or continue to have the conversation about purity that is absent from so many families. Each week, families will be provided with a weekly discussion to assist in the efforts to promote purity. Those discussions can be found on my blog, chrispalmer.me. The final weekend in February, we will celebrate our commitments to Christ to live purely by a family dinner and an exchange of vows and purity tokens (links below). I trust that your family will join us in this Purity Revolution.