Sex and Why We Can’t Live Without It

September 15 - Sex and Why We Can’t Live Without It Synopsis: Our culture entices us to think about the personal pleasure that comes from sex, about the physical joys and sexual gratification that come from an active sex life. God’s intention for sex has always been so much more than this. Sex is more than taking your clothes off. True intimacy is found in our ability to take the clothes off of our thoughts, hopes, and dreams and become entirely naked together. Sex alone can never create intimacy. True vulnerability and openness create bonds together that reflect the intimacy God has with us. Only then does sex have true intimacy and power, when people who have chosen to reveal their true identities together can accept one another in sexual intimacy instead of accepting partially-hidden and distant partners in shallow, lifeless sex. The first is truly “making love”; the latter is idolizing sex. The former is life-giving; the latter is life-destroying. Text: Ephesians 5:25-33 – We belong to each other; oneness is more than sex; intimacy resembles Christ’s intimacy with the church, fully, sacrificially, honestly, and openly.