BONUS! #236: Pursue Wholeness, Not Purity
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
None of us is pure, but we can be whole. The imperfect packaging of the evangelical purity movement left many feeling confused and ashamed. Listen in as Dr. Juli Slattery shares a refreshing new approach to how we see our sexuality and how we're all on a journey to become more like Jesus.
Guest: Hannah Nitz
Mentioned:
- Join us for our August 6th webinar on addressing sexual brokenness with both truth & love.
- Episode #160: Why God Created You To Be Sexual
- Episode #166: We Are All Sexually Broken
- Click here subscribe to Java with Juli in your favorite podcast app
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| 0:00.0 | One of the goals at authentic intimacy is sexual discipleship. |
| 0:04.0 | This means that we help our community navigate what's happening in culture in terms of sexuality |
| 0:09.1 | and how to use a biblical lens and understanding what we see happening in the news. |
| 0:14.1 | Well, within the last year or so, there's been a lot of backlash against the purity movement. |
| 0:19.4 | We're hearing more and more people come forward with stories of pain caused by the message of the purity movement. We're hearing more and more people come forward with |
| 0:21.6 | stories of pain caused by the message of the purity culture. One example of this is Joshua |
| 0:27.1 | Harris. He's the best-selling author of the book I Kiss Dating Goodbye. He recently, about a year |
| 0:33.4 | ago, asked his publisher to actually stop printing and distributing that book. This week, Josh |
| 0:39.4 | announced that he and his wife are choosing to separate. And can I just say that the comments |
| 0:44.3 | on his Instagram post have been really ugly? There are two things that I want to talk about |
| 0:50.1 | in relation to what's happening in the news with Joshua Harris and the purity culture. |
| 0:54.8 | First of all, as Christ followers, how do we engage with each other around these sensitive issues? |
| 1:00.9 | How do we share with people that we've been hurt or that we disagree with what they think? |
| 1:05.6 | I just want to share with you a few examples of what people have written in response to Joshua's post. Somebody wrote, |
| 1:12.4 | You probably ruined thousands of lives with your books. I truly hope you realize how much pain |
| 1:18.0 | you've caused and that you take responsibility for it. Someone else posted, when you attempt to |
| 1:23.8 | imagine the incredible damage you've dealt firsthand to an entire generation, a simple |
| 1:28.8 | apology doesn't hold much water. Any relationship ending is sad, and I'm sorry for that, but it's |
| 1:35.0 | frankly difficult to feel very much empathy for you when you understand even a fraction of the |
| 1:40.1 | damaging teachings you've propagated. And someone else just posted, so I guess you've decided to kiss your marriage goodbye. |
| 1:48.1 | These comments, even if they're coming from a place of pain, are just damaging. |
| 1:52.5 | They're hateful. |
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