EP#17: Beyond Sunday - Sexuality and the Story of God

This week’s episode with Todd, Christian and Spencer returns to the passage in I Thessalonians 4:1-8 where Paul instructs us how we are to walk with God which includes to “abstain from sexual immorality”. Those unfamiliar with the concept of Scripture being a Story that God is writing from eternity past to eternity future will particularly benefit from listening to this episode.  The pastors recount the beginning of the story in Genesis, with man and woman living in perfection, then the entrance of sin (Genesis 3) and the devastation that sin has brought to mankind.  But in God’s grace He brought redemption through the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus which gives us hope for a return to perfection in all things in the new creation.  One of the most significant segments of this episode is the discussion of our principal identity - that of being created in the image of God - and not our sexuality.  First and foremost, the “most central aspect of humanity is that we were made in His image, we have a responsibility to rule in partnership with Him and we are to put Him on display”, and this includes the choices we make in our expression of our own sexuality.