{"id":26149,"date":"2020-09-22T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=26149"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:36:11","slug":"thank-you-for-explaining-why-coed-sleepovers-are-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/thank-you-for-explaining-why-coed-sleepovers-are-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for explaining why coed sleepovers are a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/coed-slumber-parties\/\">coed slumber party<\/a> article. My son said that if I could give him biblical reasons, he wouldn\u2019t go to a coed campout with him and two girls in the forest. In this current age, these kids innocently think they don\u2019t see a difference between girls and boys and don\u2019t understand why their parents are the only ones not on board with this. My son will no doubt still be mad that he can\u2019t go, but I appreciate your article since my usual search for Bible verses on coed sleepovers didn\u2019t return anything.<\/p>\n<p>Gratefully yours,<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome. I&#8217;m glad you found a good use for the article.<\/p>\n<p>If your son has further questions, he is welcome to write.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Response:<\/h2>\n<p>Thanks for offering. I will let him know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Thank you for the coed slumber party article. My son said that if I could give him biblical reasons, he wouldn\u2019t go to a coed campout with him and two girls in the forest. In this current age, these kids innocently think they don\u2019t see a difference between girls and boys and don\u2019t understand&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,1028,1034],"tags":[127,38,637,185],"class_list":["post-26149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","category-parenting","category-teenager","tag-about-this-site","tag-morality","tag-sex-education","tag-temptation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26153,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/coed-slumber-parties\/","url_meta":{"origin":26149,"position":0},"title":"Coed Slumber Parties?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"by George Hutto That's the title of a recent article in the teen section of the local paper, (Times Daily, Florence, AL, June 1, 2005, p. 6e). \"Innocent fun or danger zone?\" is the subtitle. 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