Human Sexuality and the Holy Spirit

<p><strong>The God Who <em>Is </em>Love created man male and female <em>for</em> love.</strong></p><p>Human sexuality is a gift of Creation. The image of our God who is love is<br />borne by “man” as “male and female” with no hint of either sex?s imaging<br />the divine more fully than—or apart from—the other. Through this gift we may<br />love and be loved deeply may enjoy a profound oneness in marriage and from<br />love?s natural self-giving may give life to children the greatest ongoing fruit<br />of such love.</p><p>Despite all its goodness many on this planet experience sexuality in brokenness<br />and pain. We know sin and evil spoil and steal from God?s good creation but we<br />do not despair. The Good News of Jesus Christ reckons seriously with every enemy<br />of human fl ourishing. His victory has won healing the Holy Spirit applies to the<br />broken through loving ministry.</p><p>These truths of Creation Fall Redemption and Restoration unify the essays in this<br />book. Most began at the Scholars? Consultation of the Empowered21 Asia Global<br />Congress in Singapore in 2017. Here they explore God?s intention for our sexuality<br />ways we misuse and abuse this gift and ways Spirit-empowered communities help<br />heal brokenness and restore the divine image. Expressing theological and socialscience<br />scholarship and front-lines ministry experience from the First and Majority<br />Worlds these essays probe gender theory inequality and fl uidity and dysphoria;<br />sexual exploitation of children and women and their resilience; homosexuality;<br />fi ghting HIV/AIDS; promoting sexual wholeness; and more. Readers will deepen<br />their biblical theoretical and practical understanding so they may minister healing<br />and restoration with wisdom and compassion in the power of the Holy Spirit.</p>