Why would someone give up their same-sex desires and their hope for romance, unless they’d found something higher? When Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 6:13 that the body is “for the Lord, and the Lord for the body,” was he not pointing to a desire even more fundamental than sex? Our deepest longing was to be spiritually intimate with God, to experience the belonging we were made for. Many people in the church, I realized, didn’t even have a real, practical category for this belief. At least, they didn’t act like they did.
