If you grew up in a church like mine, you often heard about the need to pursue a healthy spiritual walk.
This was often defined by actions such as reading your Bible, participating in church, living a generally moral life, and sharing your faith within our modern culture.
Rarely did we ever hear that caring for our physical health was a spiritual virtue. We certainly never heard that eating a diet of junk food was just as foolish as the young man led astray with wine or women, or that failing to get routine medical tests and care was unloving to those that love you.
At times, we would hear about how our body could tempt one to sin, whether through lust, gluttony, or addiction, but we didn’t hear about caring for our bodies and recognizing them as God’s gift to us.
The Importance of Physical Health
In recent months, our staff has been thinking about ways to update our biblical counseling training and discuss more deeply the role that our physical body plays in fulfilling the purposes for which God put us on earth.
Romans calls us to present our bodies as a “living sacrifice” to God. In other
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