Stop me in my tracks and slap me across the face

Our church website has a blog type area called the tumbler. Today when I looked at it they had a link to a Christianity Today article titled, "Missions and Masturbation". Here's the link:

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2007/10/missions_and_ma.html

Totally stopped me in my tracks. Check it out. This part in particular really slapped me across the face.

…so many young people are being lost to the cause of Christ's mission because they are not taught how to deal with the guilt of sexual failure. The problem is not just how not to fail. The problem is how to deal with failure so that it doesn't sweep away your whole life into wasted mediocrity with no impact for Christ. The great tragedy is not masturbation or fornication or pornography. The tragedy is that Satan uses guilt from these failures to strip you of every radical dream you ever had or might have. In their place, he gives you a happy, safe, secure, American life of superficial pleasures, until you die in your lakeside rocking chair.

I especially liked the part when they said that there are some people that are trying to make the sexual purity of a young single Christian the measuring point of their relationship with Christ. While that is important, it is not equipping people to deal with the reality of past or present sexual indiscretions.
Good stuff, I think I'm going to pick up the whole article.