Sexual stress? Do you think that maybe it couldn’t happen to you?
“Could it happen to you, a cross-cultural worker? Of course, it could. You are human, aren’t you? It is a natural human tendency to grow to like people with whom we spend time, so much so that even people taken hostage often grow to like their captors, and the captors grow to like their hostages.
“It is even more likely that you will like people with whom you are working, and that liking may become sexual attraction. People can gradually “slide” into sexual sin over a period of time.” (Ron Koteskey)
That tendency to “slide” is something to be aware of, or as the Bible says, to “be on the alert” because of the threat of the enemy of our faith.
Just because you are “working” for the Lord on the mission field, and just because you are anointed by God to do His work in whatever area of the world He has placed you, it doesn’t mean that you won’t experience sexual tension and areas of temptation. As Ron said, “You’re human, aren’t you?”
Even if you are married, and probably because you are married, the enemy of our faith targets you all the more, to work overtime on bringing you and the ministry that God is doing through you, down. Sexual stress is just one of many areas that you need to be aware of, as far as a vulnerable area of your life where giving into temptation can cause you to fall, BIG TIME!!!
Ron Koteskey gives biblical examples of this and goes into some of the questions and situations you need to consider that could hopefully make you better aware and more cautious in the future of “dangers” that could threaten your marriage and threaten the ministry the Lord has given you.
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• WHAT CROSS CULTURAL WORKERS OUGHT TO KNOW
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