SEX

Tomorrow morning our community of faith begins a seven week series on sex. It's entitled Sex and the Suburbs: Discovering God's Design for Our Sexuality. The past couple of weeks I have been very busy preparing for the series (so that's why I haven't been posting - not true) and I have to admit I am pretty pumped up. As we kick this off, let me share two thoughts, one from Scripture and the second from an awesome book by Ronald Rolheiser.

There's more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, "The two become one." Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever--the kind of sex that can never "become one." (1 Corinthians 6:16-17, The Message).

"Sexuality is the energy inside of us that works incessantly against our being alone. Sexuality is a beautiful, good, extremely powerful, sacred energy, given us by God and experienced in every cell of our being as an irrepressible urge to overcome our incompleteness, to move toward unity and consummation with that which is beyond us" (Ronald Rolheiser, A Holy Longing)

I hope you will take a moment and pray for our community as we enter this holy space. Let's all take off our shoes because the ground we are standing on is indeed holy ground and sacred space.

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