February 12, 2023 - Caring Encounters Conversations, "Sexuality and Spirituality"

Scripture Passage:  I Thessalonians 4:1-12

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Sex and Spirituality

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Structure: ABA
Praise and Push Sandwich

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Praise
we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living.

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Graduated Growth
Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

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Planned Spiritual Growth
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified:

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Planned Sexual Growth
that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

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Sex can become religious
5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

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Sex as Servanthood
6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister

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7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
Included issues: greed and gossip

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What if the church is too worried about sex?

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Living in Philadelphia
 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

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Always room to grow
 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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Sex is one area of spirituality

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Your sexuality is deeply connected to your (spiritual) identity

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Find healthy places to talk and grow on this and other aspects of love "more and more"