Southern Baptists Leaders Will Host Summit on Sex

Southern Baptist Convention leaders will host a summit in Nashville in April focusing on sex.

The topics will range from pornography, teen sex, and homosexuality to help pastors know how to talk to their congregations about human sexuality.

The sessions will include discussions on how the Gospel can shape a person's sexual identity, redeem sexual desire, and set free people held captive by sin.

Rev. Russell Moore, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president for the Southern Baptist Convention, said the summit's theme is a timely one.

"So many of the questions that pastors grapple with today deal with situations that would not even have been possible a generation ago," Moore said in a statement announcing the summit.

"As technology advances and the culture changes, the questions that we have to grapple with are often increasingly complex," he continued.

"We'll talk about these questions, and how we can be be faithful in ministry, gospel-focused in engagement and Christ-shaped spiritual warriors in the ways we seek to wrestle with the principalities and powers of this age," he continued.

The event's main sessions will be streamed live on the web, April 21-23.