We don’t talk much about human intimacy in the church, but we need to. Intimacy, sexuality and sex are good gifts from God! Wholeness and wellness include physically loving and being loved. Touch, arousal, playfulness and lovemaking are a part of God’s grand design for our species. In the Jewish tradition, we are even told that lovemaking with your spouse on the Sabbath is twice blessed! It’s a sad fact that many of us weren’t taught all this as young people and many of us adults aren’t guided by this understanding now. The church needs to repent for its poor stewardship of human sexuality. But, it’s right there in the Bible! The Song of Solomon takes the idea of love and enfleshes it in two young lovers. Their gaze and description of one another has a potency that Hollywood struggles to capture. “My beloved is like a gazelle. He comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.” And in another place, “…kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine… your name is perfume poured out; Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” What a wonderful God you are! You have designed us for mutual joy.
For People with Bishop Rob Wright
The podcast expands on Bishop’s For Faith devotional, drawing inspiration from the life of Jesus to answer 21st-century questions.