Made in the Image: Reclaiming Our Humanity and Sexuality (Sex, Love, and God Series)

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

How understanding our humanity as made in the image of God offers a better story of sexuality, identity, and spiritual integration than what culture or the church often provide. Kicking off the Sex, Love, and God series, Mike Erre revisits his powerful and vulnerable teaching on sexuality from 2013—complete with updated reflections and grace-filled context. This episode, "Made in the Image," explores the ways we have been misformed by both the culture’s over-sexualization and the church’s silence or shame around sex, and invites us into a more human, integrated, and hopeful vision rooted in Scripture and God’s design.

Key Takeaways:
• Fully Human, Not Merely Animal or Angel – Unpacking how humans are uniquely created to embody both body and spirit, and why that impacts how we should understand and live out our sexuality.
• Reframing Broken Desire – Why the biblical view of sexuality offers a redemptive middle way between cultural license and religious repression.
• Sexuality as Spiritually Significant – How physical desire and spiritual awareness are not at odds, but intertwined in our design as image-bearers.
• From Shame to Honest Conversation – Encouragement to bring our stories, questions, and struggles into a grace-filled, nonjudgmental space modeled after Jesus’s compassion and truth.
• Song of Songs as a Biblical Vision for Desire – Rediscovering the sacredness of attraction, love, and eroticism in the language of Scripture, especially through the voice and agency of women.

Resources Mentioned:
• Song of Songs 1:1–4 – Exploring desire and sexuality through the Israelites’ erotic poetry.
• Genesis 1 & 2 – The foundational image of humanity as physical-spiritual beings made in God’s image.
• Psalm 8 & Job 38 – Contrasting humanity with angels and animals to understand our unique role and dignity.
• 1 Corinthians 6, Ephesians 4, and 1 Timothy 4 – New Testament insights on the body, sin, and false teachings about desire.
• Vox Care Team – Onsite support and prayer team available after teachings to walk alongside anyone seeking help or healing.

Join us as we start this much-needed conversation about sexuality, desire, singleness, marriage, identity, and freedom. Share this episode with someone navigating questions around faith and sexuality, and help us build a Jesus-centered community where nothing is off-limits and everything is wrapped in grace.

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As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Feel free to email in questions to [email protected], and to engage the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

We're on YouTube (if you're into that kinda thing): VOXOLOGY TV.

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Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify

Support the Voxology Podcast on Patreon

The Voxology Spotify channel can be found here: Voxology Radio

Follow Mike on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikeerre

Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

Instagram & Twitter: @GoneTimothy

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello Internet. Mike here, flying solo.
0:16.0	I'm sitting my back porch in Ohio and it is raining today.
0:21.6	So if you hear strange, it's kind of soothing sounds, that's rainfall you're hearing.
0:28.6	And for those that are in Southern California, it's a very rare thing, but evidently, according to my new neighbors, it has been very rainy in Ohio this summer, so we're getting some more of that.
0:41.6	Andy and I have been wanting to do something for a while that we're going to start today.
0:45.4	I did a series of teachings called Sex, Love, and God in 2013, and all those years ago.
0:55.0	And we've been, we, even though they're four years old, and I would certainly, I mean, please hear this, I would certainly nuance them differently and I would answer a couple of the questions differently.
1:05.0	But we still get so many questions about the originals and we get so many comments and so much
1:11.3	traction from the originals that we thought that we would release them sort of intermittently
1:17.3	to the Vox podcast crew and see what you think and again these certainly aren't the final
1:25.1	words of where I'm at or whatever. I've learned a lot from dialoguing with you and doing this podcast and we've had loads of conversations about sexuality.
1:33.3	And I've done a lot of reading since then.
1:35.3	And so I don't even remember all that I said, but I know I would want to either characterize it differently or nuance it differently. So if you give me grace on that end, I would want to either characterize it differently or nuance it differently.
1:44.6	So if you give me grace on that end, I would be very glad for that.
1:50.4	Because what we want to do is just sort of slowly drip out these episodes and then
1:54.6	have conversations about them and see what you think.
1:57.5	They've been very helpful for loads of people according to the emails we get.
2:02.7	And so we thought they'd be worth your time. They're about an hour, 20 minutes or so, and it's more
2:08.6	biblily. It's not as conversational, obviously, it's more biblically. And people sort of text in
2:14.1	questions towards the end, and some of those I hit right then, and some of those
2:18.2	I hit the next week. And so, anyway, we thought it would be a good idea to do that. So you're
2:24.1	going to get episode one today, which we called the Phantom Menace. I wish, no, we called this one,
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