Read pages 137-139, from, "'You have, huh?' ..." down to the middle of page 139, "'Cait glared at the weed ..."
Did you have an adult explain sex and/or sexual purity to you when you were a child? If you did, what part of it made the biggest impression? Did you understand it all at the time or did some of it make more sense later? If no adult told you about sex, how did you find out? What did you learn that was wrong?
Can you relate to how Cait feels? If you didn't keep your virginity until you married, do you also feel less worthy?
What does the Bible say about our worthiness? Is our worth based on what we have done? What does give us true value? How does that effect your view of sexual purity?
A young friend of mine observed that she didn't like the idea of 'purity rings.' The idea is that a girl wears a purity ring on her left hand ring finger and her husband takes it off when they get married. The problem with that, my friend observed, is that it indicates your need for purity is over when you get married. What do you think about that? Do you think purity should be valued even beyond the wedding night?
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