The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the pastor of a large church in Texas has issued a seven-day sex challenge to his congregation.

Rev. Ed Young, the founder of a nondenominational Fellowship Church that has about 20,000 followers asked his married congregants to have sex every day for a week straight during his sermon last Sunday. Rev. Young feels that society is promoting promiscuity and he is issuing the sex challenge as a way of reclaiming sex for married couples. “Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages,” says the pastor.

Rev. Young has not only issued the sex challenge to his flock, but it is also his intention to practice what he preaches. “We’re going to give it a try,” said the clergyman who has been married for 26 years and is the father of four children.

“God says sex should be between a married man and a woman,” says Rev. Young. “I think it’s one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage, so goes the family.”

Though this idea of a church pastor issuing a sex challenge sounds a bit odd, Rev. Ed Young is not the first to do. Earlier this year a pastor in a southwest Florida church issued a 30-day sex challenge to his congregation.