Watch: Right Now Media by Brody Jespersen- You and Your Sexuality

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION during the movie.

• Tell us about a time your expectations were so low, that you were blown away by an experience.
• Have you ever had something undersold to you that you then really enjoyed? What was it?
• Do you believe having expectations for certain experiences is healthy? Or unhealthy? Why?
• What is the message our culture sends about sex?
• How has culture influenced our view on sex?
• What message does music, movies, advertisements, social media, fashion etc. send about sex?
• If we aren’t defined by sex, what does define us?
• What are some of the things that define you?
• Who does God say you are?

“But sex wasn’t designed to fulfill you. So what did God create sex for? The obvious answer is to make babies, but there’s more to it than that. Sex was created to be special. .. to bring us pleasure … to glorify God … to create intimacy … To have sex, two people have to make themselves completely vulnerable. It’s the physical equivalent of sharing your deepest secrets with someone. It creates a closeness that can be impossible to achieve in any other way. Now, within a marriage, this is great!”

Brody Jespersen

“You are not a sexual being having a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being who may or may not have a sexual experience. And the only way to live into this, is to stop living for the world’s overrated and oversold version of existence, and to start living the way Jesus intended us to: with purpose and intimacy with God.”

Brody Jespersen

DISCUSS

• What are your thought about these two statements?
• Read Proverbs 21:17: Those who love pleasure become poor; those who love wine and luxury will never be rich.
• Read Genesis 1:26 -2: 25. Although God says many times that his creation is good, when does he notice something is not good? (Genesis 2:18) What is significant about Genesis 1:27? Genesis 1:27: So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
• Read Matthew 16:25: “If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.”

Answer the following question in the quiz.

• What is the impact of not following God’s plan for sexuality on the Christian life, faith and ministry?