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

“we begin to see the holy and hope-filled Word of God as a rule book rather than a love letter written to our hearts. A layered and wisdom-soaked love letter gently explaining the deep-rooted whys that compel us to live differently from the start.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“The world has so massively exalted, worshiped, and stolen ownership of all things sex-related that the church has, at times, lost footing and leverage in the fight for young people’s attention.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“That holy kind of sacrificial sex. That God-designed act of worship created to righteously unify a husband and a wife bound by the commitment of a covenant. That act that carries the weight of the cross in its wake and teaches us the power of tangling souls under a promise made before the Creator of it all. That comfort-bringing, fear-dispelling, soul-sanctifying kind of sex. That God-pleasing sex worth waiting for and celebrating, worth saving until His design designates. That all-inclusive physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual surrender.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“That all-inclusive physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual surrender.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“That comfort-bringing, fear-dispelling, soul-sanctifying kind of sex.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“That holy kind of sacrificial sex. That God-designed act of worship created to righteously unify a husband and a wife bound by the commitment of a covenant.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“If your perspective on sex has been shaped by the world rather than the Word for long enough, I hope my reckless and redeemed testimony will connect with you. If you’re finally ready to replace perversion with purpose and pain with purity, this book, my friend, is written for you. I pray God meets you through these words, collects the pieces of your fractured story, and resurrects in your heart the beautiful reminder that He, alone, can make all things new.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“But in the meantime you have the opportunity to encounter His shame-destroying grace, have your heart perspective reframed, and find freedom in His loving reproof.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“And to stand up, boldly, as a body of believers, and defend the most intimate act of worship and praise we’re free to know.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“It’s time to begin reclaiming sex for the glory of God. It’s time to invite Jesus back into the bedroom.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Reclaiming sex as the act of holy worship God always intended it to be isn’t taboo or embarrassing—it’s eternity-shifting. And eternity matters to me.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“I’ll speak up for the teen who is tangled in the bondage of pornography. For the girlfriend feeling pressured to go further and “give it up” in order to show her boyfriend how much she loves him.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“God, after all, is the inventor of sex. We were made, by Him, as sexual beings. So if it’s a topic fiercely close to His heart, it must become a topic fiercely close to ours.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Who has a mess of a testimony that was nurtured and redeemed by a King who makes our hopeless things holy.”
― 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