{"id":80007,"date":"2024-07-18T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80007"},"modified":"2024-07-18T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:52:54","slug":"a-field-guide-on-gender-and-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80007","title":{"rendered":"A Field Guide on Gender and Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bb4dea78-4ec1-4dc7-abd1-75725da01762\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">God\u2019s design for gender and sexuality is fixed and unchanging. The way he created us is the way he means for us to live. The instruction he provides in the Bible is all we need to understand his purpose and live it out in a way that honors and pleases him. The wisdom he provides in the Word is all we need to understand how he made us and how he intends us to express our sexuality. God has spoken and it falls to us to believe and obey.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"7472d4b5-2e6e-472c-a69c-dd071d8e4eac\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"1f52686b-7929-4749-801d-d28d520ff629\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> A Field Guide on Gender and Sexuality <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"837e8000-44c7-49ad-b2ec-24de2d8eff0e\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2dcd8b5b-192d-48db-a463-431dae45199a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Ligonier Ministries<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"9bf102c1-ffde-4b7f-95b7-37eea4986c2f\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"b56a100d-c8b5-4395-8ece-184a14f0aecf\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"dc7bbb02-76d4-40cb-880b-e69ef102c2d6\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/a-field-guide-on-gender-and-sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"07da7891-d150-4373-8df2-4f3b48b0fb24\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the world is confused about these matters and always has been. Such confusion varies from age to age and context to context, but what is universal is that every culture finds different ways to rebel against God and against his good design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s design for gender and sexuality is fixed and unchanging. The way he created us is the way he means for us to live. The instruction he provides in the Bible is all we need to understand his purpose and live it out in a way that honors and pleases him. The wisdom he provides in the Word is all we need to understand how he made us and how he intends us to express our sexuality. God has spoken and it falls to us to believe and obey.See AlsoParents Need to Act NowWhat Is The Meaning of Sex?Self-Centered Sex (Part 1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":80021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-80007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/81-q2H3LikL._SL1500_-1-1-1.jpg?fit=1080%2C636&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80022,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80007\/revisions\/80022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}