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A review by 10_4tina
Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot by Mo Isom
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
3.25
Valuable content that is getting missed in Christian conversations on sex, but also some of it felt harmful or not nuanced enough. Grateful for the honesty and vulnerability written in this book and appreciative of the expansion of this conversation.
3 good highlights:
Ch 2:
In our lives, our sin doesn't usually look like an intentional decision to be bad. It almost always looks like a subconscious choice to choose for ourselves what is best for us and what we desire and what we think we want and need.
Ch 5:
We end up wasting our lives constantly comparing rather than repairing our broken perceptions of ourselves. We don't believe deep down we are worth as much as God says we're worth and we mindlessly consume the definition of value the world sells us and the propagated message that we need to do more, be more, have more to be as good as the others around us.
Ch 10:
But when we wait for the sake of waiting in hopes of a life-changing pleasure as a reward for our good works, we exalt sex as a false idol that we long to perfectly complete and fulfill us.
3 good highlights:
Ch 2:
In our lives, our sin doesn't usually look like an intentional decision to be bad. It almost always looks like a subconscious choice to choose for ourselves what is best for us and what we desire and what we think we want and need.
Ch 5:
We end up wasting our lives constantly comparing rather than repairing our broken perceptions of ourselves. We don't believe deep down we are worth as much as God says we're worth and we mindlessly consume the definition of value the world sells us and the propagated message that we need to do more, be more, have more to be as good as the others around us.
Ch 10:
But when we wait for the sake of waiting in hopes of a life-changing pleasure as a reward for our good works, we exalt sex as a false idol that we long to perfectly complete and fulfill us.