Alive: Gospel Sexuality for Students
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Alive: Gospel Sexuality for Students gives teenagers and young adults a biblical, gospel-centered framework to understand sexual issues. In a changing culture where feelings about our identity inform our sexual choices, this ten-week small group resource by Cooper Pinson of Harvest USA, applies biblical truth in a compassionate way to sexual struggles.
Cooper Pinson, with years of experience working with students, aims to bring the theological truths of our union and communion with Jesus Christ into the world of sexuality. Students are met where they are and encouraged to talk about the issues that are part of their everyday world. At the same time, they are guided to learn robust, deep, and strengthening theological content that will help them follow Jesus in how they express their sexuality.
Out of this framework, topics addressed include God’s good design for sexuality, gender-related issues, singleness, dating, marriage, masturbation, pornography, and same-sex attraction, among others. Students are shepherded to understand their sexuality in the light of who Jesus is and to approach these issues with truth, faith, and compassion.
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- Gives teenagers and young adults a biblical, gospel-centered framework to understand sexual issues.
- Includes ten-week small group studies (student’s guide and leader’s guide).
- Addresses topics like: God’s good design for sexuality, gender-related issues, singleness, dating, marriage, masturbation, pornography, and same-sex attraction, among others.
- Week One: What Does God Have to Do with Sexuality?
- Week Two: What Went Wrong?
- Week Three: The Tree Metaphor
- Week Four: Pornography
- Week Five: Masturbation
- Week Six: Homosexuality
- Week Seven: Transgender
- Week Eight: Dating
- Week Nine: Singleness
- Week Ten: Marriage
- Appendix A: Thinking through the Issues of Abuse and Rape
- Resources for Thinking about Sexual Abuse
With the culture screaming skewed and destructive sexual guidance into our students’ ears around the clock, we must step up and speak God’s life-giving message about sex and sexuality into the lives of the kids we know and love. Alive provides much-needed gospel-centered content in a ready-to-use format that enables leaders to speak God’s life-giving message about sex and sexuality into students’ lives.
—Walt Mueller, President, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
This book is helpful on many levels: it’s both solidly biblical and user-friendly practical; it’s pastoral and encouraging without softening the truth; and the topics it covers in chapters 4 through 10 are all ones desperately needing careful reflection from Christians today. I intend to use it with my graduate students this coming fall!
—Kevin Offner, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Director of Grad-Faculty Ministries for Washington, DC area universities
Confusion over sexual ethics is rife among Christians because of the messages sent by the wider culture whether the politics of identity, the omnipresence of pornography, or the promotion of promiscuity via the entertainment industry. Therefore, thoughtful teaching on such matters is vital in Christian discipleship. This excellent book provides a solid curriculum, which pastors, youth workers, and small group leaders will find most helpful in guiding people to a clear understanding of biblical teaching.
—Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies, Grove City College
- Title: Alive: Gospel Sexuality for Students
- Author: Cooper Pinson
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 136
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- ISBNs: 9781945270918, 1945270918
- Resource ID: LLS:ALIVENGP
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T21:06:52Z