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In a culture that’s desperately asking sex to be the alpha and omega, this book shows how sex is better when Christ is the alpha and omega.
Andrée Seu, senior writer for World Magazine
I cannot think of any gift of God that has been more abused and misused than that of sex. What was intended to be a stunning, pure, earthly picture of amazing heavenly, eternal realities, has been perverted into an alluring but false god that is in fact a grotesque caricature of the true God and sucks the life out of its worshipers. With tsunami-like force, wrong ways of thinking about sex have inundated our secular culture, as well as the evangelical world. The resulting fall-out, pain, and dysfunction have reached proportions that are unfathomable and unspeakably tragic. The contributors to this volume have provided a refreshing, insightful, and much-needed treatment of this sacred subject, calling us to bring our thoughts and lives into captivity to the supremacy of Christ, and to reflect our ravishment with our heavenly Bridegroom in our sexuality. I pray this resource will make a profound and widespread difference in how God’s people think and live.
--Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author, host of Revive Our Hearts radio
Sex is a wonderful gift from God; but it makes a terrible idol, brutal and unyielding in the misery it inflicts. These authors are a breath of fresh air, because unlike our culture’s self-proclaimed sexperts, they respect biblical authority and warmly embrace the Lordship of Christ. Hence, they can lift up the torch of divine truth and expose the enemy’s lies about sex that have penetrated not only the darkest corners of our culture, but of our churches. I pray Sex and the Supremacy of Christ will demonstrate to readers that Christ being Lord of all means that He must be Lord of all we think, say, and do about sex . . . and that in His lordship we will find deliverance and joy.
—Randy Alcorn, author of The Purity Principle
In a culture characterized by pervasive distortions of the divinely appointed norms and purposes of human sexuality, what we need in our churches is a robust and biblical understanding of God’s view of sex. Our generation, at least here in America, is fixated on sex. But its preoccupations are inappropriate and unhealthy, and it is, by and large, given over to a worldly mind about sex and committed to the practice of self-destructive sexual freedom. Now many may think the best thing to do is just to ignore the whole subject, or merely to condemn the perversities. But pastorally we need a genuinely Christian outlook on and practice of sexuality to pervade our people’s thinking and living—if we are to be the godly example, witness, and counter-culture that the Lord intends us to be, for His glory. This book is a glorious start to forming a Christian mind that expresses delight in God’s gift of marital intimacy—a Christian mind that so desires to delight in that which God delights in, that it revels in rejecting the cheap substitutes pawned off on this passing age as true pleasure, and instead only finds satisfaction in what is purest and highest and noblest and best. The book considers the subject of human sexuality biblically, theocentrically, Christologically, and thus helps form a well-rounded Christian outlook on sex.
—J. Ligon Duncan III, Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi
Another Christian book on sex? This is so much more. We don’t need another book on how not to look at the girl in the mini-skirt. We’ve read that. We don’t need another bedroom guide with chapter titles containing the word “hot.” Basically, we don’t need another book on sex that’s all about us. We need our gaze lifted. We need to consider the God who made us sexual creatures for His glory. This book will help you form a Christ-centered, Bible-shaped understanding of sex. This is something we all need.
—Joshua Harris, author of Sex is Not the Problem (Lust Is)
