Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot Quotes

“We are certain others have it so much more together than we do. We are convinced others are more favored and blessed, are doing more important work for the kingdom, and surely are more valuable even in God’s eyes. We are relentless dismantlers of our own self-worth. We evaluate, we rank, we categorize and subcategorize. We covet, we grow envious, we get competitive, and we harbor resentment. We want, we want, and we want. All because we’ve missed what we already have.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Do we truly love another if we aren’t helping to guard their heart, their body, and their spirit in purity and in obedience”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. (Rom. 12:9–10 ESV)”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“A pure heart compels us to make decisions that don’t seek first to please ourselves but rather to please a holy God. A pure heart compels us to surrender our lives and follow His leading, even when it’s hard. A pure heart compels us to take our thoughts captive, recognize our temptations, and surrender our minds and our bodies to things that are pleasing to God. A pure heart compels us to turn away from a sin-filled world and set our focus on things that bring hope and life. Actions that are uplifting and edifying and good. Choices that don’t lead us wandering into gray areas but keep us on a straight and narrow course toward His glory.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“For our salvation, Jesus has paid that sacrificial price. But for our sanctification, we are called to make sacrifices too.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“never ours to define. Humanity’s attempt at defining love has been a long and incompetent effort to wrap insufficient words and wide-sweeping descriptions around a God-sized invention better”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“sacrifice”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“. It helps to start”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“act. Or just an emotional act. Or just a mentally engaged decision. We can rationalize”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Physically, sex includes a beautiful range of acts and expressions. Mentally, sex is a catalyst for the activation of unbelievably powerful neurotransmitters in our minds. Emotionally, sex is an expression of love, surrender, trust, and sacrificial service to another. And spiritually, sex is a tangler of souls,”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“But when we simplify or cheapen or commercialize sex as anything less than what it truly is and what purpose it serves in God’s absolute and perfect design, we open a Pandora’s box of ways that our minds, our hearts, our bodies, and our”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“the desire to be bad people; we revolted with the desire to be”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“not in choosing to be bad but choosing to be our own, despite recognizing we were created”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“decision to be bad; it almost always looks like a subconscious choice to choose for ourselves what is best for us, what we desire, and what we think we want and need.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure” (1 Cor. 10:13).”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“true why intended at the root of virginity. It is the greater source God always intended to be the compelling force for our actions and our discretion in all things.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“give a look inside my own personal failings rather than to instruct or to preach. Because at nineteen years”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“stopped seeking further knowledge or deeper sexual insight and instead, unknowingly, claimed self-righteousness and badge-earning as my source of motivation for virginity. I had missed”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“He desired, above all else, my purity”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“us to be? Physical virginity can’t be restored. But spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional purity can.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“already growing an appetite for the interest and stimulation I felt when I stumbled across those things I wasn’t supposed to see. And the sin struggle of another”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“We could all just blame porn as the one and only bad guy and point fingers and lodge complaints and then go back to not having to think too much”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“watch. And what we consume, mindlessly. And spiritually, our clear vision of what God desires for our lives is blurred and blinded when our gaze is entertained by cheap and easy things.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“just a seemingly uptight biblical belief that what we watch, listen to, and consume directly influences our spirits, our hearts, and our lives. It is a basic principle of human nature and cause-and-effect response. We aren’t exempt from the allure, temptation, coercion, and influence of”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Because in failing to talk about the issue of pornography we are doubly failing to talk about the power the Holy Spirit possesses to purify our eyes, reclaim our hearts, and break our”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“instead we stay silent and leave far too many hurting hearts feeling like they are the only ones weak enough to have given in to these broken things.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“and taught. Maybe some girls are less sexually inclined by nature, but that was not the category I fell into. That was not at all my story. So I have to believe there are plenty of other”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“sex sells” in mainstream media and the reason the porn industry is thriving is because marketers, producers, investors”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“perverse sexual material saturating our world? Why are the statistics of porn viewership so high? Because unguarded hearts and unguarded eyes are quickly corrupted. And where there is growing demand, there will always be thriving supply. Sexual”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot