Claire’s Reviews > Surrendered Sexuality: How Knowing Jesus Changes... Everything > Status Update

Surrendered Wisdom:

"Rules change with the world, but maturity is rooted in God's unchanging love and truth, able to discern the lies of the culture in every age"

"Maturity means that we read, grapple with, and learn to apply God's word to our own lives...you cannot become mature if you are living on secondhand knowledge of God."

Surrendered Wisdom

"Rules change with the world, but maturity is rooted in God's unchanging love and truth, able to discern the lies of the culture in every age."

"Maturity means that we read, grapple with, and learn to apply God's word in our own lives...you cannot become mature if you are living only on secondhand knowledge of God..."

"In a bitter twist, our sexual wounds not only set us up for unwanted desires, shame and discouragement, but they also often keep us from the ultimate source of healing...Satan's goal is not to keep you from a wonderful marriage or sexual experience. His ultimate goal is to set up "strongholds" that keep you from an intimate relationship with Jesus...Our strongholds show up in the form of questions of God's goodness.

"The person who "saves sex for marriage" but doesn't have a relationship with God through Christ is impure..."

"We honor God with our sexuality by confessing and surrendering the desire that leads to sin, asking the Lord to replace that desire with His perspective."

"We know the rules about biblical sexuality, but have not been trained to think like the world as a reference point of what brings wholeness and human flourishing...nothing in our physical or relational world is random, but created by a Designer with the intention of showing us who He is..."
"In a covenant, when you make a promise, sex becomes like a sacrament, an external symbol of an invisible reality, a covenant"

"Your identity in Christ is a fact, but you will fail to walk in it unless you reorder your life to connect meaningfully with both God and with other Christians."

"It is God's love that will move you toward holiness, not your purity that moves God to love you...without an intimate relationship with God, the call to reorder your life (including your sexuality) will become a burden of legalism that you won't be able to handle for long..."