My husband and I are fairly new to the Lexington area and had been looking for a church home-we heard a lot of good things about Quest so we checked it out and boy, were we surprised, and not in a good way! The series that the church was exploring was the ""man series""-the service started with a ""jack-ass"" style video of 20yr old young men doing fairly stupid things like being duct-taped to a punching bag & letting their friends punch them around, not really sure how this relates to spiritual growth but I digress..... The leadership team consisted of 2 men & a woman-not sure where the pastor was-and the message was about relationships. The two guys were speaking to the women in the audience, the woman to the men. It started off fairly uneventful until the leadership team decided it was appropriate to talk to the WHOLE congregation, including children, teens, and singles about sex. I am not uber-conservative however, as a Christian I think that is a very ""sensitive"" subject-does it have validity to be discussed-yes. However, the subject of sex was discussed in a way that ""God-designed"" men to think about sex every, 1.5 seconds and the advice to the ladies was, ""men like creativity, don't be afraid to get creative-read a book if you have too""-ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? They also doled out the advice to the ladies that men like to think of themselves as ""sex-machines."" Both my husband and I were very uncomfortable-we also felt like this church was buying into the worldly myth that ""men are dogs, and women are frigid""-they also talked about how it was wrong for women to ""withhold sex and use it as a bargaining chip""-we felt like this subject would have been better suited for a marriage conseling class not a sunday morning entire congregation message!!! It's a shame too, because my husband listens to the pastor on his way to work evey morning & had high hopes for this church.....
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