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THE-101 R&R #7 Name: Answer the questions on this worksheet as you complete the reading. Type your answers on the worksheet in a different color or highlight. Upload the worksheet to Brightspace by 11:59pm on the due date. Refer to “Reading & Reflection Grading Rubric” on Brightspace for assignment expectations and grading criteria. Reading Completion Report Type your initials in the box to indicate your completion of each reading assignment. Read all closely Read most Skimmed/fou nd R&R answers Read little None West - Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender - “Chapter 3” Wesleyan Church’s “Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality” Reading Questions West - Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender - “Chapter 3” 1. What did the entrance of shame into the world do to the way we see the human body? Bodies are seen as shameful, or as objects. 2. What does Jesus’ purifying and healing us of our desires entail? Jesus’ purifying and healing entails discipline and self denial. 3. What should marriage be a path for? It is a path towards what is true, good, and beautiful, so that what is “erotic” also becomes true, good, and beautiful. 4. What is lust? Lust is a reduction of the original fullness that God intended for erotic desire.

5. What is Christian purity? Purity is looking at others in a pure way while respecting the spousal meaning of the body. Wesleyan Church’s “Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality” 1. What does the Wesleyan Church recognize its responsibility to do? Their responsibility is to speak the truth in love about all areas of life that have direct bearing on human spirituality, including human sexuality. 2. What does the Wesleyan Church find in God’s Word regarding sexual relations between same-sex partners? There is no positive examples or justification anywhere in God’s W ord to sanction sexual relations between same-sex partners. However, there are various passages that indicate how homosoxual relationships are a consequence of fallen human nature. 3. The Scriptures promise more than forgiveness, what do the Scriptures promise? Scripture promises deliverance from sin’s domination over our lives. 4. What is cheap grace and what is costly grace? Cheap grace says justifies sinning and takes advantage of God’s forgiveness. Costly grace submitting to Christ and following Him while having a broken spirit, but contrite heart. 5. According to the Wesleyan Church what is the purpose of sex? The purpose is to be enjoyed as communion between man and wife, and for procreation. Reflection Questions - 75 words minimum for each response West - Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender - “Chapter 3” 1. How can you grow in mature purity? One of the first steps to maturing in purity is simply seeing purity through God’s eyes, and knowing what our bodies are actually intended for. It is also important to know that no one will ever be “completly pure,” until we are in Heaven. With this being said, allowing God to redeem you from lust helps one’s purity become stronger. Becoming mature in purity also includes knowing that being pure doesn’t include rejecting the body, but instead accepting it for what God created it for. Wesleyan Church’s “Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality”

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