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Surrendering Your Sexuality| Understanding Attraction Without Crossing Boundaries
Light Of Life with R.Jenkins
We start a new series on surrendering our sexuality to God by getting honest about attraction and the confusion it can create. We break down why attraction is not automatically romance, how the body can mislabel signals, and how discernment plus boundaries keeps our faith and relationships healthy.
• the call to surrender every part of self to God including sexuality
• why attraction is the foundation of many boundary crossings
• a personal story of confusing dreams and misplaced guilt
• how church culture and society bundle attraction into romance
• Jesus and Mary of Bethany as a model of nonsexual intimacy
• different types of attraction including spiritual soul and physical
• why physical sensations can mimic excitement anxiety and desire
• Amnon and Tamar as a warning about lust urgency and harm
• a discernment yardstick body soul spirit then scripture
• Moses and the idea that not every attraction deserves attention
• practical safeguards for work church and mentorship dynamics
• the difference between love that gives and lust that demands
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