Misquoted – Week 11 | My Body Is A Temple?

Our culture sends two loud messages about bodies: either worship whatever your body wants—decorate it, indulge it—or treat it as a problem that must be punished, denied, and minimized. This sermon names that specific tug-of-war: shame, obsession, eating disorders, casual self-worship, and the impossible pressure to perform or purify our bodies until they measure up. Rather than siding with indulgence or denial, the message reorients what it means to call a body a “temple”: not a trophy for self-worship, nor a prison to escape, but the place where God chooses to dwell and reveal worth. Expect a clear, compassionate take on how embodiment shapes identity, why neither extreme satisfies, and how a different divine perspective changes how we relate to our bodies now and in the long run—an idea that quietly upends common assumptions and invites a fresh way of living in the skin you’re in.