Sex God (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Chris
• Amnon
• Tamar

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• “How you feel about the creation reflects how you feel about the creator.”

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• You can’t be connected with God until you’re at peace with who you are.

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• Whatever it is that has its hooks in you, you will never be free from it until you find something you want more. It’s not about getting rid of desire. It’s about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires.

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• This is why gratitude is so central to the life God made us for. Until we can center ourselves on what we do have, on what God has given us, on the life we do get to live, we’ll constantly be looking for another life.

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• Life is not about toning down and repressing your God-given life force. It’s about channeling it and focusing it and turning it loose on something beautiful, something pure and true and good, something that connects you with God, with others, with the world.

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• Often freedom is seen as the ability to do whatever you want. But freedom isn’t being able to have whatever we crave. Freedom is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it.

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• Lust comes from a deep lack of satisfaction with life. This is why we have to slow down and reflect on our lives before we’ll ever begin to sort out the significance of this. Lust often starts with a thought somewhere in our head or heart: “If I had that/him/her/it, then I’d be …”

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• Lust promises what it can’t deliver.

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• Our sexuality, then, has two dimensions. First, our sexuality is our awareness of how profoundly we’re severed and cut off and disconnected. Second, our sexuality is all of the ways we go about trying to reconnect.

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• Our sexuality is all of the ways we strive to reconnect with our world, with each other, and with God.37

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• How you treat the creation reflects how you feel about the creator. When a human being is mistreated, objectified, or neglected, when they are treated as less than human, these actions are actions against God. Because how you treat the creation reflects how you feel about the Creator.

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1. Rob Bell (Author)

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• Dewey: 261.8357

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living › Faith
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Sex › Sex & Religion › Christian Sexual Ethics