Sex, Redemption, and the Soul: Reclaiming God’s Vision for Intimacy (Sex, Love, and God Series)

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

How the biblical framework for sexuality challenges cultural norms, overcomes shame, and invites every person—regardless of past or orientation—into healed, holy intimacy. In part 3 of the Song of Songs Series, Mike dives deep into the theology of sex, identity, and one-flesh unity through the poetic lens of Song of Songs chapter 4 and powerful insights from Genesis, Corinthians, and modern neuroscience.

You’ll hear an unflinching yet grace-filled conversation around sex, the LGBTQ+ community, church hypocrisy, and what the Bible actually teaches about the soul-deep power of sexuality. With honesty, humor, and compassion, Mike and the Vox community explore how the church can become a place of healing—not shame—when it comes to our most vulnerable expressions of love and longing.

Key Takeaways:
• Jesus-Centered Sexual Ethics – Understanding Scripture’s vision for sex as “one flesh” union rooted in covenant, not shame or control.
• Four Lenses on LGBTQ+ Issues – How to hold grace and truth simultaneously as a disciple, a reconciler, a pastor, and a citizen.
• The Romance and Redemption of Godly Sex – Song of Songs reveals sex as romantic, gentle, joyful, and soul-affirming—fully endorsed by God within covenant.
• Science Confirms Spiritual Truths – How modern neurochemistry reveals the soul-deep bonding power of sex, echoing the Bible’s call to wisdom.
• No Place for Hierarchies of Sin – Calling out the American church’s inconsistency in applying biblical ethics, especially around greed, injustice, and divorce.
• Grace for the Journey – Whether struggling with porn, past brokenness, or relational failure, Jesus offers healing, hope, and redemption.

Notable Quote:
“Sex isn’t just physical—it’s soulish. And when it’s pulled out of covenant, it has the power to ‘bond and rip’ to the point of harming our ability to connect. But no one is beyond restoration in the hands of Jesus.”

Resources Mentioned:
• Genesis 1–2 & 5 – The creation of male and female in God’s image
• Song of Songs 4 – The romantic pursuit and celebration of love
• 1 Corinthians 6 & 7 – Paul’s teaching on one-flesh union and sexuality
• "Hooked" by Joe S. McIlhaney & Freda McKissic Bush – Scientific look at sex and bonding
• Joel 2:25 – God's promise to restore what the locusts have devoured
• Dallas Willard’s Teachings – On joyful resistance and spiritual formation

Be sure to join us next week with Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff for a deeper look into relationships and healthy communication. Then, bring your questions the following Sunday for a full Q&A night, and don’t miss our special Healing Service wrapping this series on sexuality and Song of Songs.

As always, we would love dialogue as we pursue truth together. Reach out with thoughts or questions to [email protected] and join the real-time conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

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0:00.0	17th.
0:13.0	On the 17th, we're going to have a healing service.
0:15.0	And it's going to be kind of the culmination of the whole journey.
0:23.0	And we're going to deck this place out.
0:29.3	And we're going to assemble the staff, the elders, our prayer teams, our care teams.
0:37.6	And the invitation is just going to be wherever you are, whatever you've done, however you've lived, whatever's brought you to this place,
0:41.8	we just want to invite you to bring your sexuality back under the blessing of God.
0:45.9	And because tonight we're going to talk about some heavy stuff,
0:49.9	and the fear, as we hold out the standard,
0:57.5	is that people just get pushed away or full of shame or whatever and decide that they just have blown it too much. They've sin too big. And that is so not the message of Jesus. And so
1:04.7	we want to spend some time talking about that. So that's where the next four weeks, so four weeks
1:09.6	from the night, we will be praying for healing and just seeing where we go.
1:14.6	After that, we'll take some time off.
1:17.6	Maybe we'll do another conversation like this Sunday night someday in the future, but that will be the end of the song of Solomon's Sunday night study.
1:25.4	All right.
1:26.3	You can always text in questions. We encourage you to do
1:28.9	that. I want to follow up from one of the questions that we got last week that I have been
1:34.9	thinking about a ton. And I want to talk more about the issue of gay marriage because it is such a pressing issue of our day.
1:47.0	And I think there's, I don't know, have you ever left a conversation and went, oh, I should have said that, I should have said that, and I should have said that, and I should have said that.
1:56.0	And that's kind of how I left last Sunday night going, you know, I'd really like to just add a couple of things
2:02.3	to that conversation. Because when you talk about gay marriage, I think at least as I stand up here
2:08.7	on a stage in front of you and now put online forever, you're answering from lots of different
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