Loving touch has the power to

• Acts 20:36-37 - “When he had finished speaking, he knelt and prayed with them. They all cried as they embraced and kissed him good-bye.”
• Romans 16:16 - “Greet each other with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings.”

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• 1 Corinthians 6:16-18 (The Message) “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.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another.”

Sex is designed by God to generate a bond of

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   • 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 - “Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command.”

Practical steps for touch in marriage

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Reflection
How is God inviting you to respond to this message?