Sexuality-A Gift from God

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies”

(1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NIV).

“This scripture has been interpreted in ways that seek to shame us about our bodies and sexuality, but that is not the only -or even the best- interpretation. Yes, my body can be described as a temple of the Holy Spirit; I want to honor God with my body, to treat it as a temple. However, I believe that trying to suppress or hide my sexuality - trying to separate my body/sexuality from my spirit - is the REAL harm done to that temple. God desires wholeness for us: mind, body, and spirit in harmony. Cutting off sexual desires or feeling shame about them does not allow us to be whole - to be the beautiful, EMBODIED creations that God created us to be.”