Contents
Every chapter and appendix with its section-level headings. Use this to jump straight to a part of the book, or read it straight through from the front page.
Front matter
Chapters
Chapter 1 — Fellowship in discipleship
Chapter 2 — Sexual Relationships - What & Why
- Love and sex
- 2.1 Sex and sexuality
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2.2 Managing our sexuality and curbing lust
- Casual sex
- A rite of passage or True Love waits?
- What about sexual lust?
- Curbing the tendency of sexual attraction turning or growing into focused lust is a matter of reasonable self-control
- What lust is not
- Early marriage? Or later?
- Sexual repression
- Sex as commercial promotion
- Sexual orientation
- Sex and intimacy
- 2.2 Discussion questions
- 2.3 Self-control and natural instincts, premarital sex
- 2.4 Sexual fulfillment in marriage
- 2.5 Pornography: the elephant in the room
- 2.6 Same-sex attraction
Chapter 3 — Establishing and developing sexual relationships
- (Courtship: life's most important feasibility study)
- or: A fresh look at Christian dating
- 3.1 A courtship continuum - more than just waiting-dating-mating
- 3.2 Focusing the feasibility
- 3.3 Building relationships, communication
- 3.4 Problems and pitfalls in relationship building
- 3.5 Negotiating disagreements
- 3.6 Unequally yoked? Flirt to convert??
- 3.7 Why Christian marriages can fail
- Towards commitment
- 3.8 Foretaste of physical intimacy, eros within boundaries
- 3.9 Shaping up to a commitment
- 3.10 The role of others
- 3.11 Some final comments
Chapter 4 — Managing Mind and Body - enjoyment and control
Chapter 11 — Gifts, vocation and work
Appendices
Appendix 7 — Open letter to evangelical churches
- Down to Earth Discipleship
- A stark contrast
- Summary and perspective on sex
- Attitudes to sexual experience
- Church communication on sexual relationships
- The basic perspective
- Encouraging sound personal standards
- Teaching and modelling social relationships
- Lust, masturbation and pornography
- Conclusion
- PS