Understanding, Appreciating, and Learning
to be Purposeful with Our Sexuality.
Trinity Fellowship Church – Spring 2015
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Who are you?
What shaped your understanding of sexuality?
Why are you passionate about healthy sexuality?
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Jenna Mountain
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Students ask parents
What experiences have been most helpful in shaping
your understanding about your sexuality, and sexuality
in general?
 Parents answer first then ask student
What kinds of things (3 wishes?) would make this class a
good experience for you?
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1st – Introduction and Defining Sexuality
2nd – Theology of Sexuality
3rd – Maleness and Femaleness
4th – Celebrating Sexuality with Boundaries
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A personal relationship with
God and understanding his
design is a first priority.
An intimate relationship with
God will transform our heart.
When our heart is motivated
by God’s heart it will impact
our behaviors.
Behaviors
Heart
GOD
Attitude
Actions
Sexuality Is Designed by God as a Way to Know God
More Fully
God’s goal in creating human beings with personhood and
passion was to make sure that there would be sexual
language and sexual images that would point to the
promises and the pleasures of God’s relationship to his
people and our relationship to him.
Piper, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Genesis 1
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God said, “Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness…
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 2
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the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him a helper fit
for him”…
23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”24 Therefore a man
shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his
wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Adam is alone and this is not good
Adam’s loneliness is not satisfied by his relationship
with animals or even his relationship with God in the
garden
Adam’s “hunger for wholeness” is only satisfied by
the sexual being God created to complement him, Eve
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Is it surprising that Adam needed Eve in the Garden of
Eden? Why was Adam’s relationship with God not
enough?
Why does it take both maleness and femaleness,
masculinity and femininity to correctly bear God’s
image? Why didn’t God just created another man?
Sexuality
 Our gender makeup
 The need for relational connection
 Our sexual desires
Rosenau - Soul Virgins
Our gender makeup
God’s image is reflected in both maleness and femaleness
and the way they interrelate. He wanted to reveal himself
and the value he places on intimate loving relationships so
he created sexuality.
Rosenau, Celebration of Sex
The need for relational connection
God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal
loving communion. Creating humans in his image, God
inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the capacity
and responsibility of love and communion.
Catechism of the Catholic Church #2331
Our sexual desire
Our sexual ache was purposefully designed by God to
motivate us (body, soul, and spirit) toward an intimate
connection with God, members of the body of Christ, and
possibly a future spouse.
Rosenau, Soul Virgins
The nature of this ache stems from a desire to be vulnerable
and intimately known by another, revealing who we are at
our deepest level of existence.
Like Adam experienced in the Garden of Eden.
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wish that all were as I myself am…
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good
for them to remain single as I am. 9 But if they cannot
exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better
to marry than to burn with passion.
I Corinthians 7
Sexuality
Romantic Behaviors
Sex
Sexuality: Everyone
lives in the sexuality
box because God
created us sexual.
Romantic Behaviors:
Are complicated
because some of them
can be enjoyed while
single and some are
reserved for marriage.
Sex: Is reserved for
marriage as it
involves genital
contact.
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Why didn’t God have our urges awakened once we got
married? What would some benefits/detriments be?
What are some implications for God purposely
creating us with a sexual ache? How might this ache
affect us in our day-to-day life?
What would make completing homework this week
easier? How can we improve over last week?