What is sexuality? If you're not having sex, what is sexuality?

When I reference it, when I say, you know, we're all sexual, that whether you're single or married, you're still a sexual person,

your sexuality is part of how God created you, designed you in his image.

You know, we can live our whole lives without sex and without marriage,

but we can't live our whole lives without intimacy. And we were all made for intimacy. And so there's

an aspect of your sexuality that calls you to pursue intimate connection and intimate relationship.

Hey friend.

This is Julie Slattery, and you're listening to Java with Julie,

a listener-supported podcast dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality.

Well, the clip you just heard was from our webinar series, Sex and the Single Christian.

We're in the middle of a series of webinars and

podcast conversations about being single and sexually whole. We kicked it off last week, but it's

not too late to join us. This Wednesday, August 24th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time will go live

with our second webinar in this series. We've called it How to Ditch the Counterfeits

and Find True Intimacy. And I'll be talking with therapist Don Jones about counterfeit intimacy

and how to begin walking in freedom from the wounds of our past. We'll link to that in our show

notes and at Authenticanimacy.com. You know, being a single Christian who wants to get married is not easy,

especially when you throw in dating apps, social media, and cultural ideas like situationships

all into the mix. Sometimes as Christians, we take what we see in culture and we just put a biblical

twist on it and then we call it Christian dating.

My guest today, Jonathan Pekuta, is going to really challenge our thinking on that, and

you're going to hear me ask him some tough questions like I like to do, and I think Jonathan

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