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What no your motor cycle in Jesus it sounds like you're just listing all the idols in my life

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It's shocking to me, but I think about my body a lot. What do you think about that? Well, I mean I know I do like how I'm failing and I'm getting older, but I wouldn't ever guess that you ever thought about the older I get

The more you know you feel pains and aches. You don't walk as well. I don't yeah

I tried to get up on a surf board and that didn't go well because I could barely get off the ground. I feel like I take care of my body, but I am

Shocked I think about it as much as I do. I would love to say I think about spiritual life in Jesus my emotional life, my mindset, but the body is right up there. Probably I guess I'm

Confessing too much. I know you are. I'm super surprised. How have I not known this before? Well, you know you learn things right here on Family Life today and we're

Going to learn a lot about our bodies today and one guy actually cares about our bodies. We have Sam all very back with us on Family Life today. Sam, so glad to have you back with us. Welcome to Family Life today. Thanks for having me. It's always good to be with you. You're

Smiley net our conversation. What did you think when you heard us talking about this? Yeah, I was wondering if the comment I never would have guessed you think about your body was meant to sound like a compliment or not.

It was a compliment actually. Because if I mean our listeners can't see Dave, but he's in really good shape. He's really healthy. And he's not self-consumed at all. I feel like I'm worried more about the outer than he does. So that's why I was surprised. It's probably good to make that clear. Yeah, and it's interesting because Sam you just finished a book. We've had you on here before as an apologist and a speaker and obviously a writer. I mean the last time we talked to you.

It was the book. Why does God care who I sleep with, which was a fascinating conversation. I love all the stuff you write about. You're so much deeper than me and me and me. We just love the way you're mind. Thanks. But this one. And I first of all, I want to ask you why you wrote this book. But the title is very interesting. What God has to say about our bodies. Why the gospel is good news for our physical self. So why in the world did you attack this issue? Why go after the body?

Yeah, there were two reasons really and really they relate to the two halves of what I spent my time doing. One is apologetics and I was becoming aware that so many of the issues we are wrestling with and confused about in Western culture have to do with our bodies.

What does it mean to be male or female? What would we do with our sexuality? How do we cope with body image issues and those are kind of on the rise at the moment.

And then similarly, the other half of my life, I'm a pastor and was just finding that more and more pastoral issues within the church have to do with the body. How we cope with and think about age, physical frailties, you know, sickness, again, eating disorders, body image stuff.

And I've been looking over the fence to see what our Catholic friends are up to and they've been far more attentive to the body and its theological significance than we have been.

So I figured this is an area where we've not taught as well as we should and partly for my own edification and partly if it helps anybody else, I wanted to really dive into what the Bible says about our bodies.

And I knew that the Bible had lots to say about our bodies. I knew that there would be a book in there. But even so, I was really surprised at how much the Bible says about our bodies.

We so often default into God's only interested in the sort of spiritual bit of me, which we presume is the soul or the spirit or something like that.

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