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There's a huge gap between culture's definition of sex - recreational play between two consenting adults - and God's definition as seen in the Bible.
Key Points:
- There’s a huge gap between culture’s definition of sex – recreational play between two consenting adults – and God’s definition as seen in the Bible.
- Echad is the biblical word for sex. It carries the sense of being “fused together at the deepest level”. It is the bonding of two people into one identity: body and soul, physical and spiritual.
- Outside of marriage, echad is cheapened and tears at your soul.
Quote This:
Genesis 2:22-24 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Talk About It
- What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- Give some examples of how our culture reinforces the definition of sex as recreational play between two consenting adults.
- Talk about what it means to have a biblical worldview. How does that change the way you see this issue?
- Read Genesis 2:21-24 and identify the concept of “echad” in the passage.
- Read Ephesians 5:21-33. How is this biblical picture of marriage different than our cultural picture? Which picture seems better to you? Why?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
