17-11-2020 19:18 via feeds.christianitytoday.com

Don’t Overstate the Rewards of Sexual Faithfulness. Don’t Understate Them Either.

The false promises of purity culture shouldn’t overshadow the true promises of God.
In his classic book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton described the surprising, even subversive, nature of truth: “Whenever we feel there is something odd in Christian theology, we shall generally find that there is something odd in the truth.”
He gave the example of celibacy as an illustration: “It is true,” Chesterton wrote, “that the historic Church has at once emphasized celibacy
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