1. "So we're living in a culture of increasing confusion. Confusion that separates and divides and hurts our ability. To help one another and to effectively love each other. Now, we know. Right as believers, as Christians, right? This is a tactic, right? This is a tool of our enemy, our great adversary, the devil. We know that this is not God's plan. It's not God's strategy, right? God's strategy for us is certainly clear in the scripture."
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2. "Confusion about gender and sexual identity. Confusion about same sex marriage. Normalizing adultery. The rise of digital pornography, adults cohabitating, a desensitization with reality. And what I mean by that is examples like growing addictions to violent video games that involve first person killing, a widening acceptance of abortion and a disregard for life. These social beliefs and behaviors, among a host of other things, contribute to an absolute and ever expanding culture of confusion."
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3. "So whatever your posture is this morning, however you're hearing these words as I begin today, what I want to ask you to do today and in the following weeks is to simply lean in. Lean in with me, lean in with your church family, lean in with your community as we engage a conversation that sometimes is just difficult. That sometimes we are left with a wonder, what do we believe? Or how do we move forward? Or how do we love in a manner that our culture is saying it's not possible?"
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4. "I believe that God has revealed his plan for human life through the body. And each week we're going to follow kind of the structure that Timothy Tennant sets in his book and look at several building blocks that will help us better understand the theology of the body and stronger, a stronger foundation for our relationship with all people by addressing and maybe even working towards eliminating some of the confusion and divisions that have hindered us."
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5. "The foundational truth that we ought to embrace here in this is that our bodies are created in the image of God. Or as academic theologians like to say, the Imago Dei. This that is we humans are made in body to reflect God to others. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to look around this morning. Look at the people around you. Don't look at me. You've been looking at me. Look around this morning and let me ask you a simple question. Do you see God?"
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6. "It is imperative that we realize that we are a part of this culture and whether our response is uh our response is a lack of response or a response directly to it we are either contributing to the confusion or we are being the reflection of the imago dei that we were designed for there is no middle ground we are either reflecting the image that God wants us to reflect or we're contributing to the confusion that is swirling around us."
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7. "I share this with you because today's emerging assumption is precisely the opposite. The heart, by many accounts, is considered to be trustworthy, a trustworthy guide. And our body is what is deceiving you. The body is what's deceiving us. I don't know how many times I've said it, how many times I've preached it. If you've been to our church for a long time, you've heard me say this over and again, right? Your feelings will lie to you, right? Our feelings will lie to you. The truth is our hearts will lie to us."
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8. "A clear theology of the body is rooted in the image of God. And it provides for us a positive vision to counter the confusing and destructive narratives of our modern culture that our modern culture is struggling with. Over the next couple of weeks, we're going to continue and add more building blocks as we talk through some of the more confusing and challenging things that we are facing as a culture today, as a people."
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9. "I want to leave you with a couple of practical next steps this week as we kind of move forward and prepare to continue to make this real for us. And that is, first and foremost, I want you to spend some time, maybe a few different times, reading through Genesis chapters one and two. And while you do that, focus specifically on God's handiwork. What exactly makes creation so good?"
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10. "God, I believe that you can redeem it. I believe, God, that you can give us a good pathway forward. I believe, God, that you can open our hearts and our minds. God, that you can develop the pathway that allows for relationship and conversation, that we can grow together as we lean into you and your plans for us. God, I pray that you would ready our hearts over these next few weeks as we continue to add increasing building blocks to give a more full-orbed understanding of the work of creation in the body as you have given it to us."
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