This is a needed conversation, and author and apologist Sean McDowell is the right one to have it.
As parents and ministry leaders, we don’t always know how to answer Gen Z’s toughest questions. Praise the Lord that Sean does, and that he’s willing to help us to unpack ones like:
“Why would God keep me from loving whomever I want to love?”
“Why do you call your attractions to the same sex brokenness? You are not broken.”
“I just need to be free. Why are you stopping me from freedom?”
“If I am attracted to the same sex, why would God call me to loneliness (ie. singleness)?”
“Who cares about sex before marriage?”
Thanks, Sean, for being a helpful friend today on the podcast! (And for being a real friend to Laurie at the surprise ending that made her cry happy tears. Listen all the way to the end to hear it. 🙂 )
| Highlights |
“If I could give one piece of advice, it would be to have conversations with your kids.” -Sean McDowell
“The point in this is that sex means something. So the final question…is if we communicate with our bodies and sex means something, then how do we love God and love other people with our bodies? What does that mean? And what does that look like?” -Sean McDowell
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Thanks for the episode, I was greatly encouraged! I especially appreciated the conversation on loneliness. I’ve recently been thinking of loneliness in light of Genesis 1-3, and have realized that loneliness did not exist until after the fall. Adam was not lonely in the garden without Eve! God saying that it’s not good for man to be alone had nothing today with the matter of loneliness! It is only in our separation from God that we find ourselves lonely! Coming to this realization has done wonders for me in combating loneliness!
Love this. Thanks for sharing and encouraging!!