Who comes to your mind when you think about mentors or disciple-makers? Who comes to mind when you think about sexual discipleship? Anybody?
We are all sexually discipled (whether or not we realize it) by the world. We learn its significance, importance (or lack thereof), and how to approach it by the world. We need another way.
Our friend and co-laborer in the Kingdom, Dr. Juli Slattery, author, speaker, and fellow podcaster walks us through a beautiful start of this conversation and some highlights in her fantastic new book, Rethinking Sexuality.
We are real, we are gospel-focused, but because we can’t ever keep things too serious, we talk about ridiculous but important-to-us things: How the gateway drug to alcohol is Mountain Dew (you know we are right), clean mullets, singing the Circle of Life at the top of your lungs, Morning Ninja Steve, and what if everything you ate tasted like bananas? It’s a fun game of “Would you Rather,” and a deep talk with our friend Dr. Juli Slattery.
Highlight:
“The [disciple-maker] grit doesn’t come from this view of, ‘I have so much to offer somebody else.’ It comes from, ‘I have encountered God in such a powerful way that I am just a leaky vessel that I want the Lord to pour through.'”
”[Sexual discipleship] is really a larger call to step back from all the problems we are trying to solve, and to recognize the biggest problem is we have no idea where God is in this conversation. We have no idea how to integrate our faith with our experience with our sexuality.”Juli quotes Andrew Murray from the book Humility, “Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.”Helpful Links:
Juli’s Ministry: Authentic Intimacy
Juli’s new book: Rethinking Sexuality: God’s Design and Why it Matters
Journey Well Workshops