Is Separating Boys and Girls a Good Idea?

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Sam

Is this one better?

Verbal Bean, right?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by ILG

Verbal Bean, right?

yes,

an Apostolic legend.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by CareyM

Yep!

My BIL when he was a young boy was caught by the Pastor holding hands with a girl and he told her that's how girls got pregnant. No wonder my husband's family is so messed up!

So THAT is where my son came from!

And of course once you finally were married, then sex was to ONLY be done at night, in bed, in the dark, and fully clothed!

[webdesigner]

In our church, unmarried , and young boys is separated from girls to have them focus on the word of God and not from flirting.

[meBNme]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I don't understand keeping the boys and girls separated. We want our boys to like girls and not other boys, right? I think things like this, plus NOT encouraging them to play sports, encourages effeminacy among Penteocostal young men! JMHO.

So separating girls and boys during a service will make em go gay?

I was 2 when My mother started taking me to church.

Our church has ALWAYS taken a stand on not participating in organized sports. Our youth group separated the boys and girls two years after my class was promoted to the youth group, its been that way now for the last 19 years.

Now, we didn't participate in organized sports, but we sure didn't run around in ballet tutu's making needlepoint rainbows either.
We got together for pickup football, basket ball, roller hockey etc.
We thought you were a sissy if you wanted to play anything BUT full contact tackle football, or whined about body checking in hockey.

Our youth group has averaged from 15 to 65 the entire 19 years since I joined.

WE HAVE NEVER had one person grow up in our church who turned out gay.

We have however had many couples who saved themselves until marriage, numerous couples who dated from their youth group days, got married and have wonderful marriages and happy families.

Three youth groups before mine had bad records for backslidden teens.
At the youth camps, we certainly didn't have the best behavior award presented to our youth groups. My group had a lot of backsliders, most of them from the same class I was in. Very shortly after we made different sections during service, those groups started doing MUCH better.

Was it all due to separating the boys from the girls during services and not participating in organized sports? Of course not, but having been a part of it from both sides I am 100% convinced it had a large part in reaching, and keeping our teens.

We have never separated sexes during anything but the actual service, (Nor during altar calls) and certainly not adults or families.