Swipe Right
Swipe Right is a phrase that entered the common lexicon through the arrival of Tinder, an app designed to help people skip past the hard work of investing in the kind of healthy mature relationships we all really long for.
But here’s the truth; healthy relationships are a matter of life-and- death importance because we are far more than sexual beings; we are human beings with all that is entailed.
In this series we intend to move past sermons on dating and relationships and talk about what it means to be a human with a brain, and a body and a soul and how all of these aspects inform our experience of love, sexuality, and relationships.
This is the One About Our Brains
This is the One About Our Bodies
Discussion Notes
Today we’re talking about what love and desire have to do with reintegrated humanity.
Bonus Material
When Jesus talks about "lust" he's really talking about "coveting" a human being the way you might covet an object. The issue isn't sex, the issue is the diminishing and dehumanizing of another human person.
This is the One About Our Souls
Today we are talking about intimacy as the work our our souls.
The Song of Songs, sometimes called the Song of Solomon, it’s a really interesting book in our Bible. People have read it as a metaphor for the love between God and Israel, or between Christ and the church but new discoveries seem to suggest this kind of erotic poetry was a fairly common genre within ancient Hebrew culture. However, for my money, one of the most fascinating ways to read this book is as a counterpoint to the court of Solomon. This poem stands in contrast to the exploitative sexuality of the palace and presents us instead with the sexuality rooted in the mutuality and love. This way the song of Solomon teaches us about healthy human sexuality, but also about the need to challenge the sexual ethic that is handed to us by those in power.
