Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

by Mo Isom

Overview

Sex. In a world overwhelmingly obsessed with it, why is the church so silent about it? While our secular culture twists, perverts, cheapens, and idolizes sex, there are gaping holes in the church's guidance of young people. The result is generations of sexually illiterate people drowning in the repercussions of overwhelming sin struggles.

Enough is enough, says Mo Isom. With raw vulnerability and a bold spirit, she shares her own sexual testimony, opening up the conversation about misguided rule-following, virginity, temptation, porn, promiscuity, false sex-pectations, sex in marriage, and more and calling readers back to God's original design for sex—a way to worship and glorify him. This book is for the young person tangled up in an addiction to pornography, for the girlfriend feeling pressured to go further, for the "good girl" who followed the rules and saved herself for marriage and then was confused and disappointed, for the married couple who use sex as a bargaining tool, for every person who casually watches sex play out in TV and movies and wonders why they're dissatisfied with the real thing, and for every confused or hurting person in-between.

Sex was God's idea. It's time we invited him back into the bedroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801019050
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	244,156
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mo Isom is the New York Times bestselling author of Wreck My Life. She maintains a thriving, nationwide speaking ministry and facilitates a faith-centered blog (moisom.com) that has garnered millions of views to date. Isom is a former All-American goalkeeper for the Louisiana State University soccer team and holds the LSU all-time goalkeeper record, as well as the #3 SEC all-time shutout record. She trained with the US Women's National program, was honored as National Player of the Week, has been featured in Sports Illustrated, and has appeared on ESPN SportsCenter Top-10 Plays, Ellen, ESPN, CBS, The 700 Club, and countless other platforms. She, her husband, Jeremiah Aiken, and their two children live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

1 Let's Call It Like It Is 15

2 The Whys Where We Must Begin 25

3 Virginity, Purity, and the Gray Area In Between 37

4 You Are What You See 51

5 Wandering for Worth 75

6 In the Myth of Darkness 91

7 From "Why Him?" to "Why? Him." 103

8 Participating in the Healing 117

9 Impurity from Impatience 131

10 Unrealistic Sexpectations 147

11 Sex Is Not a Sin: God's Illogical Redemption 163

Conclusion 175

Acknowledgments 179

Notes 185

About the Author 187