Cross-Shaped Sexuality // Anthony Jones // March 5, 2023 // Romans 1:18-2:3

**Personal testimony by Joe Garner following after the sermon**

1. How do we faithfully respond to the proposed bills that are moving through our legislature that have the potential to harm people in the LGBTQ+community?

2. When talking with friends who are gay, how should we suggest they handle their natural sexual desires while also encouraging them to remain celibate?

3. What are sexual desires for if we are single and can't express them? How are they good?

Cross-shaped Sexuality // Anthony Jones // February 26, 2022 // Revelation 2:18-29 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

1. What does is mean for a believing spouse to “sanctify” a non believing spouse?

2. Elliot Reiss asks: how did Jesus rescue Jonah after being eaten.

3. In early church time how did Jewish culture compare to that of Greco-Roman and the church's teaching re: sexuality & hierarchy of men and women?

4. Why does the Bible give a concession for the permanence of marriage (divorce) but not other aspects (monogamy or sexual difference, for example)?

5. If singleness is the ideal, according to Paul, why did God design creation with Adam and Eve being married and have that be the original design?

Cross-Shaped Sexuality // Ephesians 5:21-33 // Anthony Jones // February 19, 2023

Timestamps:

0:00 - How should we respond when other Christians use “the clobber verses” against someone from the LGBTQ+ community?

13:14 - How can the church expect people in the lgbtq community to embrace singleness/ celibacy, when the church has habitually idolized marriage & pitied singleness?

Cross-Shaped Sexuality // 1 Corinthians 7 // Anthony Jones // February 12, 2023

Timestamps

0:00 - welcome

2:20 - how can we be welcoming to LGBTQ people?

17:02 - Should the church treat same sex couples and remarried couples differently?

28:34 - How do I experience intimacy as a single person while honoring God?

Anthony Jones // Cross-Shaped Sexuality // February 5, 2023 // Matthew 19:1-12

Introduction to questions pertaining to inconsistencies with how the Church responds to remarriage after divorce vs. how it responds to same-sex relationships. Will cover in more detail next week.

How do you respond to one who's read the Bible and rejects God is worthy of worship based on God killing babies 2 Sam 12:15,18 or having others do so 1 Sam 15:3?