posted on february 7, 2015 by kendall harmon the church embodies god’s love in two ways: first, when it proclaims the coming of god’s kingdom and the call to repentance this involves and second, equally importantly, when it encourages and supports people as they go through the painful and difficult process of dying to their old selves and adopting a new way of life in obedience to god. so, returning to the debate about sexuality, we see that the church’s privilege and responsibility is to proclaim the message of the bible that god has created human beings in his image and likeness as men and women (genesis 1:27) and that he wills that sex should only take place between men and women in the context of marriage (genesis 2:24). all other forms of sexual activity, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are explicitly or implicitly viewed as contrary to god’s will and therefore to be avoided by god’s people.