The Gospel Is Good News To: Sexuality

[21] For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] Claiming to be wise, they became fools, [23] and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. [24] Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, [25] because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. —Romans 1:21-25

[26] For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; [27] and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. [28] And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. [29] They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, [30] slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, [31] foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. [32] Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
—Romans 1:26–32

“…God created sex and marriage as a telescope to give us a glimpse of his star-sized desire for intimacy with us. …Ultimately, my marriage is not about me and my husband any more than Romeo and Juliet is about the actors playing the title roles”. —Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity.

“Sex is to be valued, treasured, and enjoyed. But sex is not an ultimate good: it is a mark of a particular covenant, a means of multiplying image bearers of God, and a glimpse of a greater reality.” —Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity.

“…I also don’t want to recreate Jesus in our twenty-first-century, Western, postmodern, do-whatever-feels-right-for-you image. Jesus is not some ethical Gumby that we can bend around our personal desires. He wasn’t a moral jellyfish, nor did his radical love towards sinners mean that he couldn’t care less about their sin.”
—Preston Sprinkle, A People To Be Loved