When I, in marriage, make myself physically naked and vulnerable, it’s a sign of what I’ve done with my whole life…. Sex is supposed to be a sign of what you [have] done with your whole life, and that’s the reason why sex outside of marriage, according to the Bible, lacks integrity. You’re asking someone to do with your body what you’re not doing with your life. You’re saying, “Let’s be physically vulnerable to each other, let’s do physical display, disclosure but not whole-life vulnerability.” If you have sex inside a covenant, then the sex becomes a covenant renewal ceremony. It becomes a
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