There was a song by Jack Scott in 1960 (also sung by Eddy Arnold), “What in the World Has Come Over You?” This is the question I ask often when I hear of a pastor (church) doing something that seems to shoot holes in what Biblical teaching and the New Testament church really look like.

Can you tell me what in the world has come over a man when he uses pornographic terms in an attempt to deal with one of the, if not the, most sacred subject in Scripture? The word “sexperiment” or “sexperimental” is not Biblical; it is pornographic terminology. Therefore, everything said using such a term is ethos (means of persuasion) and not Logos (the Word). The Word of God is to persuade us, not ethos.

Is this experiment a word from God or a word from Ed Young, Jr.? If his church knew the Word (doctrine and theology), they would be up in arms over such crudeness.

Intimacy between a husband and wife is not crude; when we take it outside of Biblical standards it becomes crude. Eros is not in Scripture. It is the Greek god for passion and love, normally displayed as “Cupid.” From it comes the word erotic.

What in the world has come over the church and our leadership when we bend to the lowest of lows for personal P.R.? How far do you go when you start down the slippery slope of total pragmatism? It is apparent to me that the higher we go, the lower we fall. What’s next?

As Bible believing evangelicals, we should be asking the question, due to our holy living, godliness and being driven by the truth, “What in the world has come over you?” I am sure that is what the church thought regarding Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Ridley, Latimer, Polycarp and hundreds of others who were martyred for holy living.

Certainly we in the Western, civilized, Christian world know little or nothing regarding suffering for our Lord. What convenient Christianity we have. It is warm and fuzzy without, for the most part, responsibility or accountability. David was on the roof when the flesh consumed him. And who can forget Nebuchadnezzar, who was also on the roof when he acknowledged himself as the builder of Babylon? He was soon out to pasture. Scripturally, roof-top experiences did not play out the way the participants believed they would.

What in the world has come over us? Join me as I choose to be Biblical, preach the Logos, and echo the Gospel to a lost world. Maybe that would be a good seven-day living for "Jesusperiment."