When we in the church elevate marriage or romance above God, we fail to see the prophetic paradox of Jesus’ own life.53 Jesus broke this sexual idol by living as “[a eunuch] for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12). By adopting this marriageless existence, Jesus embodied a prophetic stance against the rejection of sexual minorities from the temple in Jerusalem, as well as in Greco-Roman society. Not only that, he lived a sexual life that was defined by the restored future, not the broken present. Side B Christians (and other singles) imitate Jesus in this way. We become eunuchs for
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