What is your body for?

And how does it relate to your identity, that which makes you you?

Those might not be questions that we ask ourselves all that often, but they're questions that need to be answered, especially in our world today.

Confusion abounds related to why and how our physical bodies matter,

especially in relation to the brokenness that we all feel because of sin. Today I'm talking with

Sam Albury about the eternal significance of our physical bodies. Sam speaks around the world

as a preacher and apologist and is the author

of what God has to say about our bodies, how the gospel is good news for our physical selves

from Crossway. Let's get started. Well, Sam, thank you so much for joining me again on the Crossplay podcast.

I'm glad to be with you.

So Sam, a book about the importance of our physical bodies just seems so incredibly relevant

right now in our culture today.

It seems to me like so many of the most important and often controversial issues in our culture today connect in some way, usually a pretty direct way, to our embodied selves, our embodied lives.

Do you resonate with that feeling? Was that in your mind as you started to work on this book?

Yeah, very much so.

I mean, it's a perennial issue in the sense of we all have bodies, we all need to think about our bodies. But you're right, there are so many areas of cultural life and particularly

of confusion within the church where what we think about the body seems upstream

of a lot of the things we're talking about. So it seems to be a thread in a lot of the issues

that we're discussing. And I was finding pasturally as well, everything from gender identity

to eating disorders to sexual ethics.

All of it is to do with what is our body for?

How do we even know what our body is for or whether we're using it in the right way and how

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