by Dustin Hall
Sex is one of the strongest forces shaping young lives today. Used within God’s design, it is good and deeply meaningful—but outside of that design, it becomes one of the most damaging influences a young person can face. Every day, teens and young adults are bombarded with music, entertainment, messaging, and peer pressure that normalize casual sex and dismiss biblical standards.
The results are heartbreaking: emotional wounds, broken trust, shattered goals, physical consequences, and spiritual confusion. Pre-marital sexual activity remains one of the most difficult temptations to resist—and one of the most destructive for those seeking both success in life and a place in God’s kingdom.
The Gospel of Sex equips young people and families with the tools they need to stand strong in a hypersexualized culture. Written in a straightforward, relatable style, this brief but powerful resource:
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Speaks honestly to the real pressures teens and young adults face
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Presents the medical and statistical realities of sex outside of marriage
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Explains the biblical foundations of God’s design for sexuality
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Offers practical guidance for resisting temptation and forming healthy boundaries
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Encourages readers to embrace God’s plan of purity—not as a restriction, but as protection
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Inspires young people to live as lights in a dark world, honoring God with body and spirit
Whether shared with your children, youth group, school, or church family, this booklet provides essential clarity and hope. Its message is simple yet life-changing: God’s plan for sexuality is rooted in love, safety, dignity, and joy—and choosing His way leads to freedom, strength, and a future filled with promise.
ISBN: 978-1-933291-03-6
Pages: 96, paperback
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
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BOOK REVIEW
I am a certified sex educator, sexual education curriculum creator, teen mental health counselor with over 20 years of experience, author, freelance writer—and the proud owner of not one, but two teens of my very own! I read books on this topic all the time, but I have never read a Christian book on this topic like this!
This book is one of the clearest, most balanced, and practical books on the subject of dating, sex, and relationships.
Author Dustin Hall does an amazing job at finding just the right balance between applying, first, common sense and logic to this, often very difficult topic of sex, dating, and relationships. He then follows up with a well-reasoned plea that is solidly Biblical, but not guilt-inducing. He couches his core message of abstinence in two core ideas:
1. A teen’s abstinence should be based on a simple, but profound response of obedience, which comes from thankfulness and gratefulness of God’s gift of salvation towards them
2. A teen’s abstinence should be based on the logical premise that sex before or after marriage (with anyone other than their spouse) is simply not in their own best interest (nor in others’ best interest) and only serves to complicate their lives and the lives of others in compounded and unimaginable ways. To put it in terms that a teenager can understand: “if you choose to have sex now, you won’t be able to live your best life now!”
Hall does a masterful job of writing with the successful and effective recipe of a mixture of: Bible verses, relevant Ellen G. White quotes, actual teen vignettes/narratives. He also has a unique and wonderful way of weaving everything together in a lively and quick-paced writing style. What I appreciate most about his writing style is that not only does he describe and explain very difficult topics, such as the emotional consequences of premarital sex, and the brain chemistry changes involved in sexual activity, and associated clinical research; but then takes the next [needed and crucial] step and effectively “connects the dots” so to speak for the reader and applies what he’s writing about to how it will affect (either positively or negatively) the reader.
Lastly, the chapters are clean, direct, and short and Hall doesn’t shy away from describing and discussing both sexually transmitted diseases—along with statistics (something I rarely see in a Christian book of this topic) and talking directly to the parents of teens!
Overall this is an amazing, well-researched, and well-written book! As both a trained and certified sex educator and mental health counselor, I will be requiring this book to be read by all my teen clients—and their parents!
I highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading all of Dustin Hall’s other books!
Omar Miranda, M.Ed.