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A rural Alabama church is stirring up Cullman County with a month-long focus on sex, including billboards that read: "Great sex: God's Way."
The Cullman Times quotes Jerry Lawson, pastor of Daystar Church, as saying a big reaction is exactly what he is looking for. "Absolutely, we wanted to shock people,” Lawson tells the newspaper. "Talking about the issue proactively is the key.” The paper says Lawson's campaign includes a series of videos on the church's website, including a humorous discussion about sex with an actor portraying the devil.
The Associated Press quotes local evangelist Roland Belew, a former trucker who now preaches at a truck stop, as saying the whole idea goes against the teaching of New Testament apostles. "Paul said preach the Gospel," the AP quotes Belew as saying. "Talking about sex ain't gonna get nobody to heaven." But Lawson says the church needs to be out front on the topic in a culture awash in sex. "It comes down to God saying the most healthy place for sex and the only right place for sex is within a marriage — one man, one woman, and one marriage," he says.
CNN's Kiran Chetry speaks to a pastor whose congregation put up billboards to promote his sermons in this video below.