The Intimacy Deficit

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We were never meant to settle for shallow and fleeting connections that lack intimacy. But it has become increasingly difficult to build the life-giving relationships that God made us to need and enjoy.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>There is a glorious answer to the intimacy deficit many of us face today. An open invitation to meaningful connection:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>- with our Creator God</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>- with ourselves</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>- with others</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>- with God's creation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>With biblical insight practical advice and the hard-won wisdom of experience Ed Shaw shows us how Christ is at work to exchange our intimacy deficit for life in all its fullness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ed Shaw is Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre church Bristol UK and Ministry Director at www.livingout.org. He has written widely authoring numerous blogs and articles for publications like The Gospel Coalition as well as the bestselling books The Plausibility Problem and Purposeful Sexuality (entitled Same-Sex Attraction and the Church in the USA).</span></p><p></p>