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It is pathetically easy for the church to take good gifts and worship them instead of God. This has happened to us with sex and romance, and yet we act as if it’s only the world’s problem. They chase hook-ups and cohabitation, and we click our tongues. Yet we chase sex and romance too, but we just cover it with a Christian veneer. So we get the pleasure of feeling morally superior as we trot about looking for “the one”: that starry-eyed soul-mate spouse who will complete us. How foolish! The only “one” who can complete us is Jesus Christ, the Holy One of Israel. How could an image ever replace
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