A CLOSER LOOK here presents an interview with DeVries which first appeared in Home & Christian Life Review and is reprinted by permission of Broadman & Holman Publishers.
A CLOSER LOOK here presents an interview with DeVries which first appeared in Home & Christian Life Review and is reprinted by permission of Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Q: What made you decide to focus the TLW Bible so specifically on a single topic? Don't you risk ignoring other equally important issues?
MD: That's the first question we asked ourselves. We know you can't reduce God's Word to a slogan. When you do, you risk seeing a reflection of your own priorities, not God's. The reason for the TLW Bible is that sexuality is where kids in our culture are most vulnerable. Sex messages tempt them all the time. The pressure is always there.
Q: Is the Bible the right place to look for answers about sex?
MD: The Bible is the right place to look for answers about everything. Besides, if teenagers can overcome their embarrassment enough to ask questions about sex, they often find very few adults who will give them the honest, complete truth. Kids are desperate for reliable information. . . . Christian teenagers need a cloud of witnesses to surround them with godly principles. We want this Bible to be a part of that witness.
Q: Can you really expect teens to control their passion? Is that realistic?
MD: Almost every teen who's tried it will eventually admit that casual love promises freedom and passion but delivers disappointment by the truckload, not to mention venereal disease, AIDS, and unwanted pregnancies. True love is worth waiting for, and sex outside of marriage is never more than a weak, tepid excuse for the incredible joy of married love.
Our dream is that the readers of this Bible will be convinced of that. We want them to be drawn into a more vibrant relationship with the passionate Inventor who came up with the whole idea of true love in the first place.
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