Beyond Awkward Side Hugs: Living As Christian Brothers and Sisters in a Sex-crazed World

From popular teacher and writer Bronwyn Lea a biblical invitation to healthy male-female relationships by creating a vision beyond stilted and unhelpful don't-touch/don't-talk rules.When it comes to relationships between men and women in the church we've got more questions than answers. How can men and women be in community when not married? Or if married with people not our spouses? Can men and women be just friends? How can we date wisely and well? What does it mean to be a woman if you're not a wife? Or a man if you're not a husband? How can we be in healthy close relationships if we're single?In Beyond Awkward Side Hugs Bronwyn Lea lays out a biblical vision for relationships between men and women in the church. Jesus' pattern for church living was one of family of brothers and sisters living in intimate healthy community with each other. Doing so calls for character and wisdom for charting a path toward relationships that acknowledge gender but aren't sexualized that go beyond the awkwardness of simplistic don't-touch/don't-talk rules.Rooted in Scripture and attested by personal and pastoral stories Beyond Awkward Side Hugs is an invitation to relationship theology that moves beyond unhealthy eroticized fear-based patterns and toward gendered generous relationships between men and women of character loving one another as Jesus did.

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc (April 7 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1400215005

ISBN-13: 978-1400215003

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds