Sex, Jesus, and the conversations the church forgot
By: Mo Isom
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780801019050
Subjects: Sex; Christianity
Description: Sex. In a world overwhelmingly obsessed with it, why is the church so silent about it? While our secular culture twists, perverts, cheapens, and idolizes sex, there are gaping holes in the church's guidance of young people. The result is generations of sexually illiterate people drowning in the repercussions of overwhelming sin struggles. Enough is enough, says Mo Isom. With raw vulnerability and a bold spirit, she shares her own sexual testimony, opening up the conversation about misguided rule-following, virginity, temptation, porn, promiscuity, false sex-pectations, sex in marriage, and more and calling readers back to God's original design for sex--a way to worship and glorify Him. This book is for the young person tangled up in an addiction to pornography, for the girlfriend feeling pressured to go further, for the "good girl" who followed the rules and saved herself for marriage and then was confused and disappointed, for the married couple who use sex as a bargaining tool, for every person who casually watches sex play out in TV and movies and wonders why they're dissatisfied with the real thing, and for every confused or hurting person in-between. Sex was God's idea. It's time we invited Him back into the bedroom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186).
Table of contents: title: Let's call it like it is; title: The whys where we must begin; title: Virginity, purity, and the gray area in between; title: You are what you see; title: Wandering for worth; title: In the myth of darkness; title: From "why him?" to "why? him."; title: Participating in the healing; title: Impurity from impatience; title: Unrealistic sexpectations; title: Sex is not a sin: God's illogical redemption.